Crocheted Flower Bookmark

This crocheted flower bookmark is simply charming. It’s quick and easy to whip up and makes such a fun gift for a book lover.

This is also a great way to use up leftover yarn from other projects, being a small crochet project. You can make a bunch of these and give them out to everyone you know!

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Crocheted Flower Bookmark

If you’re an avid reader like I am, this is going to be a great craft project for you to make. Follow the step-by-step tutorial below.

List of Supplies:

• Yarn – medium or medium-light
• Crochet hook – 3.5mm
• A pair of scissors
• Tapestry needle

Stitches used:

• Magic ring or magic loop
• Chain stitch ch
• Single crochet sc
• Double crochet dc
• Half Double Crochet hdc
• Slip stitch ss/ sl st
• Treble crochet tr

Instructions:

Step 1:

Select yarn for the center of the flower and start by making a magic ring.

Step 2:

Chain 2 and work 11 hdc into the magic ring.

Step 3: 

Pull the open end of the magic ring to close it. 

Step 4: 

Insert the hook in the first stitch of the hdc row, make a slip stitch, and cut the yarn.

Step 5: 

Take a different colored yarn. Insert the hook through any stitch of the previously made ring pattern. Yarn over the hook.

Step 6: 

Pull the yarn through the stitch.

Step 7:

Work 3 chain stitches.

Step 8:

Work a treble crochet into the next stitch.

Step 9:

Repeat it for 3 more times into the same stitch. There should be 4 treble crochets into that stitch.

Step 10:

Chain 3.

 Step 11:

Slip stitch into the next stitch. One petal of the crochet flower is ready.

Step 12:

Repeat step 7 to step 11 to make 4 more petals around the magic ring center.

Step 13:

Work a slip stitch into the last stitch and pull about an inch of the yarn. Cut off extra yarn and tuck/ stitch the remaining end of the yarn on the backside of the crochet pattern.

Crochet leaf: 

Step 14: 

Attach a green-colored yarn through any chain stitch of the magic ring base, between 2 petals.

Step 15:

Yarn over and pull through the stitch.

Step 16: 

Chain 7.

Step 17: 

Skip the first chain stitch and do a single crochet.

Step 18:

1 hdc into the next chain

Step 19: 

1 dc into the next stitch

Step 20: 

1 hdc into the next stitch

Step 21: 

1 sc into the next stitch.

Step 22: 

Slip-stitch into the last stitch and then turn to the other side of the base chain.

Step 23:

Repeat this pattern (1 sc, 1 hdc, 1 dc, 1 hdc, 1 sc, ss) to complete the other half of the leaf. 

Step 24:

Slip stitch into the base chain.

Step 25:

Slip stitch along the center of the leaf in each hole in each chain and reach the flower part again.

Step 26: 

Make 45-50 chain stitches to make the crochet flower pattern’s stem (bookmark part).

Step 27: 

Make a small tassel from green-colored yarn.

Step 28:

Attach the tassel to the open end of the chain stem to complete the bookmark.