Potted Flower

Free potted flower crochet pattern by Bianca Santos @crocheniacs.

With this pattern, you can crochet a flower in a pot. You can use any acrylic, cotton, or cotton blend yarn and a suitable crochet hook for this amigurumi project. To make the toy more stable, you will need to add a wire frame.

Materials and Tools

• Yarn in various colors
• Black thread
• Crochet hook
• 8 mm safety eyes
• Fiberfill
• Cardboard
• Wire
• Adhesive bandage or masking tape
• Tapestry needle
• Scissors

Abbreviations

• MR — magic ring
• sl st — slip stitch
• sc — single crochet
• dc — double crochet
• hdc — half double crochet
• inc — increase
• dec — decrease
• (...) x n — repeat n times

Crochet Potted Flower Amigurumi Pattern

Petal (make 6)

1: 6 sc in MR
2: 6 inc (12)
3: (1 sc, inc) x 6 (18)
4: (2 sc, inc) x 6 (24)
5: (3 sc, inc) x 6 (30)
6-11: 30 sc
12: (3 sc, 1 dec) x 6 (24)
13: 24 sc
14: (2 sc, 1 dec) x 6 (18)

Fold the petal in half and crochet 8 sc through both layers.

Flower Center

1: 6 sc in MR
2: 6 inc (12)
3: (1 sc, inc) x 6 (18)
4: (2 sc, inc) x 6 (24)
5: (3 sc, inc) x 6 (30)
6: (4 sc, inc) x 6 (36)
7-9: 36 sc
10: (4 sc, 1 dec) x 6 (30)
11: (8 sc, 1 dec) x 6 (24)

Insert the 8 mm safety eyes between Rounds 3 and 4, 5 stitches apart. Embroider the mouth on the flower center.

Pot

1: 6 sc in MR
2: 6 inc (12)
3: (1 sc, inc) x 6 (18)
4: (2 sc, inc) x 6 (24)
5: (8 sc, inc) x 6 (30)
6: (4 sc, inc) x 6 (36)
7: 36 sc in BLO
8: (5 sc, inc) x 6 (42)
9: 42 sc
10: (6 sc, inc) x 6 (48)
11: 48 sc
12: (7 sc, inc) x 6 (54)
13-20: 54 sc
21: 54 sc in FLO
22: 54 sc

Soil

1: 6 sc in MR
2: 6 inc (12)
3: (1 sc, inc) x 6 (18)
4: (2 sc, inc) x 6 (24)
5: (3 sc, inc) x 6 (30)
6: (4 sc, inc) x 6 (36)
7: (5 sc, inc) x 6 (42)
8: (6 sc, inc) x 6 (48)
9: ((23 sc, inc) x 2) (50)

Cut a piece of cardboard to fit inside the bottom of the pot. Fold down the top edge of the pot and sew it in place. Stuff the pot with fiberfill and sew the soil to the pot.

Leaf (make 2)

Ch 10:

Starting in the third chain from the hook: 1 sc, 1 hdc, 1 dc, 2 dc, 1 dc, 1 hdc, 3 sc, 1 hdc, 1 dc, 2 dc, 1 dc, 1 hdc, 1 sl st

Stem

1: 8 sc in MR
2-15: 8 sc

Assembly

• Sew the petals to the flower center.
• Cut a piece of wire and insert it into the stem so that it reaches from the bottom of the pot to the flower center.
• Wrap the end of the wire with masking tape or an adhesive bandage to prevent injury.
• Add a small amount of fiberfill around the wire.
• Push the wire through the flower center and the center of the soil, then sew the pieces in place.