Hello, my craft-loving friends! Today, I am thrilled to bring you a pattern that combines the beauty of blooms with the charm of crochet. While I cannot claim the Floral Crochet Bookmark as my own creation, it certainly blossomed in my heart with its elegant design and practical use.
Imagine marking the pages of your favorite books with a beautifully handcrafted floral bookmark. This pattern embraces the allure of flowers, providing an opportunity to create an artistic and functional piece, making it a delightful project for any book-loving crocheter.
So, prepare your hooks, choose your most beloved colors, and let’s crochet a garden of bookmarks together. Whether crafted as a gift for a dear friend or to add a personalized touch to your reading time, this floral bookmark pattern is sure to add a dash of crochet elegance to your literary adventures. Let’s let creativity bloom, one bookmark at a time!
Pattern Designer: Crafty Emmi
Materials
- 2.5 mm crochet hook
- Sport weight yarn in 3 colors:
- A – petrol blue
- B – mauve
- C – orange red
Abbreviations
St – stitch
Ch – chain
Sl st – slip stitch
Sc – single crohet
Hdc – half double crochet
Dc – double crochet
Tr – treble crochet
Bobble – booble stitch
Starting stitch – firs ch of step 1
Picot – ch 3, sl st in back bump of first ch
How to crochet bobble stitch
Begin the booble stitch by *yarn over, insert hook into indicated stitch, yarn over and pull up a loop. Yarn over again and pull through two loops*
Repeat from * to * three times into the same stitch and complete by yarn over and pull through all loops on hook. A booble stitch with three double crochets comes out.
Bookmark
Start with the left leaf.
Rnd 1: color A
Ch 2, booble in starting stitch, picot,
ch 3, sl st in starting stitch,
ch 60 – approx. 20 cm long chain
Rnd 2: in fourth ch from hook
3 dc + 2 hdc + ch + dc + ch + 2 hdc +
3 dc + ch 2 + sl st
Rnd 3: sl st in each ch of the chain on the way back, sl st in starting stitch
Rnd 4: ch 3, booble in starting stitch, picot, sl st in back bump of the third dc of this booble, ch 2, sl st in top of the left booble, fasten off
Rnd 5: color B, make the first stitch a standing stitch
9 tr in ch-space between the leaves, fasten off
Rnd 6: color C, make the first stitch a standing stitch
*sc in next tr, ch* x8, sc in last tr, fasten off
Rnd 7: color B, make the first stitch a standing stitch
*2 sc in next ch-space, ch, sl st in back bump of this ch* x7, 2 sc in last ch-space, fasten off
Weave in the yarn ends on the back.