How to Crochet a Carnation

by Jane Lake
Copyright © 2007-2011 Jane Lake All Rights Reserved

These lifelike frilly carnation flowers are quick and easy to crochet. I used yarn unravelled from an old baby sweater and I found it worked very well for this old pattern, which my stepmother wrote out for me many years ago.

The rapid addition of double crochet stitches in each round makes the pattern rather interesting because it forms the frills automatically as you work.

Crochet a Carnation Flower
Materials:

baby weight yarn
crochet hook: 3.00mm

Crochet a Carnation
Pattern Instructions:

Ch. 4 and join to form a ring.

Row 1: Ch. 3, 17 dc in ring, join.

Row 2: Ch. 3, 2 dc in each stitch all around, join.

Row 3: Ch. 3, 3 dc in each stitch all around, join.

Row 4: Ch. 3, 2 dc in each stitch all around, join.

Ruffle: *Ch. 3, sc in next space.* Repeat from * all around, join.