April 23, 2013
The custom order I received for Crochet Flower Brooches was one of the most unique I had ever gotten. It was additionally exciting because it was one of the first international orders I ever received. This customer was from Spain and I LOVED getting to work with her on creating exactly what she was looking for.
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Extra Large Crochet Flower Brooches Project Info:
The information listed below pertained to both the platinum and the pink crochet flower brooches.
Craft: Crochet
Made For: P. Monaco – First international order to Spain!
Started: April 22, 2013
Completed: April 23, 2013
Pattern Info:
For these extra large crochet flower brooches I used the small rose flower pattern by Claire Crompton. This pattern can be found in the book 200 Crochet Flowers, Embellishments & Trims . The image below is a link to the book on Amazon. For this particular project, I doubled the small rose flower pattern in order to reach the extra large size I needed. Additionally, I offer my own personal crochet flower pattern if you’re looking to try a flower pattern for free.
What about gauge?
As was the case with the headbands and other hair accessories, gauge is not extremely important with the crochet brooch projects either. Why doesn’t it matter as much? Because once again, if they come out a little bigger or a little smaller than you had planned, they are still usable projects for something. Not only can they be used as crochet flowers for headbands, they can also be added to a hat or a bag or something else you have creatively thought of.
Yarn used for the Extra-Large Crochet Flower Brooches:
Platinum Crochet Brooch:
For the platinum crochet brooch I used Lion Brand Vanna‘s Glamour yarn in the platinum colorway. This yarn was pretty fine. In order to reach the desired finished look I had to stitch this flower holding 2 strands of this yarn together. Unfortunately as I am finding in many of the projects lately, this yarn is no longer available. It has been discontinued. A great substitute would be Caron’s Simply Soft Party Yarn in the silver colorway. The color would be similar, but even better this is a worsted weight yarn and you wouldn’t need to hold 2 strands together as you stitch to reach the desired end result.
Pink Crochet Brooch:
For the pink crochet flower brooch I used Lion Brand‘s Pound of love Yarn in the bubblegum colorway. This was the regular worsted weight yarn that I normally used for this project. Therefore, I did not need to hold 2 strands of this yarn together to reach the desired finished look. This colorway is getting harder and harder to find, but as far as I can tell, it has not been discontinued yet. However you may have to search for it a little.
Great yarn websites to check out would be: LoveCrafts, Lion Brand, CreateforLess, Knitpicks/We Crochet and Knitcrate.
What hooks and tools are needed to make this crochet flower headband?
For this project I used a U.S. Size I (5.5mm) Hook.
My favorite brand of hooks to use are the Knit Picks brand, like the one pictured above. They are so beautiful and well made. I have a wood set that includes the crochet hook above as well as the padded handle set pictured below. I love them both! For these smaller flower projects you will need the smaller hooks, so make sure you check the sizes of the sets you are ordering. I posted additional options for complete sets you can find on Amazon a little further below.
Make it even more fun and get the whole beginner crochet kit.
As promised here are a few sets from Amazon that would be great too. I don’t think the light up set pictured below has the smallest hook sizes but I think that looks kind of awesome and it would work for the bigger flowers and other crochet projects you would make. I love that it’s rechargeable! Again, be sure to do your research and read the reviews. If you buy a good set of hooks it’s likely you will never need to buy another set again, or at least not for a very long time. Doing your homework to make sure you are making a sound purchase is always a good idea.
What other supplies will be needed?
In addition to the supplies above, you will need a few other things to recreate these crochet flower brooches. First you need the actual brooch pins themselves. Second you may want different kinds of embellishments to create all different finished looks. You may want ribbon. You will most definitely want the little gems or buttons to place in the center of the flower.
Additional Tools for when your wrists and/or hands ache
If you are like me and you knit and crochet a lot, something that I have found is useful at times is a pair of stress relief gloves. I own a few different kinds, but I do think any of them is better than not using anything at all if your hands and wrists are bothering you. I’ll include a few links for you to check out.
Need a little more help?
In conclusion, that should be about all you need if you want to try this one out. If you feel like you might need a little extra assistance and want online classes to help you, check out the link below for Annie’s and Crafty websites. I take online classes often to improve and advance my skills. You can always learn something new!
I taught myself to knit and crochet through kits that I found at my local craft store, so there is always that option as well. I’ll share links to kits similar to what I used that you can also find on Amazon if you can’t find at your local craft store or can’t get to one soon.
That should be about all you need if you want to try this one out. Please let me know if you have any questions or need any help.
Happy Stitching!
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~Mindy~
