Stitch Log: 0003
2026-03-13
Tiny crochet hooks are no joke. I have been using this super old 0.85mm hook that is super tiny and has been hard to hold sometimes. I recently bought a bulk pack of tiny hooks and although they kinda suck I was going to repurpose one of the rubber grips onto my good hook. So I removed the grip from one and was in the process of wedging the grip onto my good hook when it shot through my hoodie and got lodged into my index finger like a fishing hook. I spent the next 3 hours in the ER waiting to get it removed. Basically the hook got caught on my finger bone and I had to get my finger numbed to get it out.
Needless to say, putting blood sweat and tears into this project.
Stitch Log: 0002
2026-03-11
Flower’s Petals Completed: 6 (24 petals)
Goal: 30 (*4 = 120 total petals)
Today I just want to dump some more progress pics in the mix and document where I am at. I think I have finally cracked the code on this thing and am in full steam of getting this project done.
How did I get here
My sister asked me to make these for her wedding, they’re going to be attached to alligator clips and clamped onto silverware rings and server as a little memento from the wedding. She sent me a few pictures of patterns that she liked and I naively asserted “oh yeah easy how hard could it be” and here we are almost 6 weeks into dedicated focus on this thing.
At the beginning I SCOURED the internet for anything resembling a similarity to how these flowers or an other flower is made with a petal that is constructed side to side instead of bottom up. You would be surprised: 1. how many people don’t do it this way and 2. how no one has ever published a pattern anywhere remotely close to this. I searched everything on Etsy, reddit, ravelry, etc and COULD NOT FIND ANYTHING.
I did find a similarly constructed pattern that was free and gave me some good “construction” guidelines for putting things together, so shoutout to this: https://moaracrochet.com/crochet-poppy-flower-free-crochet-pattern/.
De-constructing the pattern
The item that I wanted to recreate is based on this flower being sold on Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1750099289/micro-crochet-flower-bookmarkhandmade
I messaged the creator on all their channels to try to get any info or guidance on this and to date still haven’t heard anything back. So I started down the journey of reverse engineering the flowers.
I posted on r/crochetpatterns to get some help. At first that went as well as you would expect with people assuming I hadn’t done any work researching myself but then one user was super on board and helped me talk through the pattern visually and we came up with a couple game plans.
That same day we probably prototyped 3-4 variations back and forth and although didn’t get the shape right it was super helpful to visualize what didn’t work and make some educated adjustments to nudge it in the right direction. I won’t post them for anonymity but thank you kind stranger.
The image below shows all the variations I made before I arrived on a shape that met my needs. I focused heavily on the petal shape on the outer ring and figured I would be able to adjust the bottom as I got closer to completing a full flower. Based on the pictures of the flower sold on etsy, it was apparent it contained some variation of DC’s tapered into HDCs into a narrow base. I had done some similar things with hat rims or fin shaped patterns on fish before so I kinda played around with the height / taper variations. A quick note, these are made using Aunt Lydias Size 10 crochet thread and at the time a 1.5mm hook. This was my first time doing anything even remotely this small and was a pretty slow learning curve.
The after I pair-crocheted with the friendly samaritan on Reddit I felt so close to getting the pattern right I was transfixed for the next day or so. I eventually got 1 petal that looks good enough and decided to throw together another 3 and just complete a prototype flower in full.
The picture below is the first specimen.
This definitely wasn’t a “no notes” moment but I felt like it was close enough a few small tweaks would dial it in. The first was dropping the hook size. I tried a couple with a 1mm hook but it still was a little too flimsy. I eventually lucked into having and completing one with an 0.85mm hook without too much trouble, and with the tension and sizing it came out perfect. The smaller hook gave it enough tension to maintain a firm shape without being too difficult to fumble my hands with, so I decided this is the direction going forward.
I had been prototyping the petals without a pointed/fully tapered base and had to start by doing like 5-8 dc5tog/dc8tog to end with a little base. This would be way too much finishing work for the final product so I started as the base for these going forward. I fumbled my way into a common half moon pattern, where for example you start with 5 sc in a ring, ch1 turn and do 5 increases across to slowly fan out the pattern. This in practice worked perfect for what I wanted.
Fast forward a few weeks, I completed this little butterfly-lite petal pair last night. As of now I have 5 sets of petals for some flowers, and 1 set of petal-pairs pictured below. I think after doing the first 20 or so petals the thought of all the finishing work has crept in so I wanted to at least see if it was viable to start and finish the adjacent petals together during construction, and I am extremely please to report it worked like a charm.
Stitch Log: 0001
2026-02-24
This is just a dump of everything I have when I wrote this post. Its a poorly written hand scribbled fart of what this pattern is, but currently goal is getting petals done before moving onto assembly and stuff.
Pattern:
New* ch2 (or 3) and 9 dc in 2nd/3rd from the hook. With a long tail.
Then ch14 and begin as normal, slsting into the base.
Ch3, 4 hdc (5 sts), hdcinc 5x (10sts), then:
Start with a Ch 14
- HDC in the 2nd ch from the hook, DC, TC, DC * 4, HDC * 4, SC, turn
- SC, HDC * 4, DC * 7, ch2 turn
- DC * 7, HDC * 4, SC, turn
- SC, HDC * 4, DC * 6, DC Inc in the last, ch2 turn
- DC * 8, HDC * 4, SC
- SC, HDC * 4, DC * 6, DC Inc, ch2 turn (note we’re stopping early to enforce the “Heart shape” of the petal”
- DC * 8, HDC *4, sc, turn
- SC, HDC * 4, DC * 6, DC2TOG (dc dec), CH 2 turn
- DC * 7, HDC * 4, SC, turn
- SC, HDC * 4, DC * 4, TC, DC, HDC, ch1 slst at the base of row 9 start to complete the petal, fasten off
Repeat above 3 times to get 4 flower petals.
Yellow part:
In a Magic Ring: 5sc (5st)
5 inc (10st)
Invert the direction so the tail is “inside” the thingy
3-4 rounds of 10 hdc, slst at the end (10)
Dec around until a butt
End is the bottom of the yellow
Shorter yellow better, whatever I prototyped is too tall
brown part is a ch2 + 15 dc into 2nd (16st)
Then ch6+slst3rd+ch3 slst base, slst next, repeat 16x
Yellow feeds into brown, reds layer and attach, needle yellow and brown through the middle of red.