Daffodil Flower

Daffodils are beautiful flowers. Crochet daffodil flowers will be great too! Create your own by following this easy, free pattern. Make several for a bouquet of flowers. This daffodil has 6 light yellow petals/dark yellow or orange trumpet, 6 yellow petals/yellow trumpet, 6 creamy white petals/orange or pink trumpet - all flowers have a yellow stylus.

Materials:

• Red Heart Yarn, Center and Petals 5 yds.
• Red Heart Yarn, Trumpet 3 yds.
• Stylus – DMC #743
• H hook

Instructions:

Center of Flower:
With H hook and petal color [leave 30” behind petals], ch 2, 6 sc in 2nd ch from hook, join to beg sc.

Petals:
Work in back loop with J hook (sc, ch 2, dc, dtrc, dc, ch 2, sc) in each loop, join to beg sc and fasten off. (6 petals)

Trumpet:
Work in front loop join trumpet color with a sl st in any loop, ch 2, 9 dc evenly spaced around, join to top of beg ch 2 and fasten off.

With two 6 stands DMC #743 make 8 knots at top of the threads (forms the stamen and stylus), thread other end through the trumpet and center of the flower about ½” and secure to back.
(Continue with Rnd 1 as established in general instructions.)

General Instructions:

1. If sewing flower directly to crocheted item omit instructions between [ ].
    
2. If continuing a pattern behind the petals of a flower, use all instructions for the flower then crochet the following:

Rnd 1 – (Behind Petals)
With H hook and 30” strand of yarn (left behind flower) work in center of the
flower *sc between any 2 sc, ch 3, cont from * around evenly spacing 3 more
ch 3 sps, join to beg sc and fasten off. (4 ch 3 sps)
Continue with your pattern.