Just a quick recap, sharing Asylum Anne's fab flowers so it is easy to find again...
And now for something waaaay different - give Flowers on Skull Appreciation Day:
Flowers
- sweet.
Crochet flowers – double “sweet”
But...
just as a cog or gear on a project means you can call it Steampunk,
simply involving a skull makes it Dark or Creepy. Well, sort of.
First
up: if you can't crochet yet, let me refer you to Auntie Google's
right-hand man, Youtube for a lesson or three. It's a compact skill – a small ball of
cotton, a crochet hook no bigger than a ballpoint pen and you are
occupied in the dentist waiting room, the bus queue, and in days gone
by, that 40-hour sequence of flights to get one from Middle Earth to
Malta. (I wonder if bamboo hooks may still be ok)
Anyway....
Skull Flowers:
One
can take any Irish Crochet flower pattern, and attach a skull in the
centre. Or crochet a length and spiral that round itself. The
advantage of doing it this way is that you can adapt the rate of
spiral, and have far more “petals”. The tail of the cast-on end
of the thread can be used to thread through a skull bead and hold it
in place. The finishing tail can be used to catch-stitch the spirals
to keep their place.
All
these ones have the same Row 1, 2 & 3. Row 4 changes. I was
brought up in the “English” tradition of labelling stitches, and
really prefer charts.
Row
1: Chain 72 (or any multiple of 3)
Row
2: Skip 5 chain, Treble in 6th chain. * Miss 2 chain,
Treble ch2 Tr eble in next chain * repeat until you run out of chain.
Turn work
Row
3: Chain 1, slip stitch in ch2 loop. Chain3 (= Treble), treble,
chain 2, 2 treble all in same loop. Repeat in every loop across.
Row
4 variation a: Chain 1. Turn work. Dc in treble. In loop:
Halftreble, 3 treble, half treble, double crochet. Repeat across to
the end.
Row
4 variation b: Slip stitch to loop. Chain 3 (= 1 treble), treble,
chain 3, slipstitch in top of treble (=picot), 2 treble. * Chain 2,
double crochet after 2 treble, chain 2. In next loop 2 treble,
picot, 2 treble* across the piece.
Row
4 variation c: In each loop 3 treble, picot, 3 treble. Double
crochet between 2nd and 3rd treble
Once you've done enough, use the cast-on tail to stitch the skull bead, then start winding the length round & round to form petals. Use the finishing tail to catch-stitch them in place.
Thank you so much Anne for this awesome project!
