Hearty Geranium Flower

Make this colorful crochet project to impress your friends and use your creativity! This is a great crochet flower you can make by following this easy crochet pattern. The Hearty Geranium flower is a wonderful crochet piece. This flower has 6 pink-red petals with light yellow center and pink-red stamens.

Materials:

• Red Heart Yarn, Center – Maize #262 2 yds.
• Red Heart Yarn, Petals – Grenadine #730 6 yds.
• Stamens – DMC #956
• H hook

Instructions:

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

Petals:
With H hook and grenadine (sc, ch 3, 3 trc, ch 3, sc) in each sc, join to beg sc and fasten off.

With 6 strands DMC #956 work 6 french knots in very center of the flower (allow some of the yellow center to show).
(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.