Waching daily Dec 29 2017

this will be a flower variation of the cheerful flower and I've made it to be

approximately the same size as the cheerful flower so it will fit in this

is the progress I've made with my cheerful flower blanket I decided I

wanted to add some different flowers in and this is a variation I came up with

it will fit in this shows I've taken a bullion stitch flower and put it right

in with the rest of my flower Afghan that I'm piecing together and it just

fits in there nice and perfect the hook size is AG or four millimeter crochet

hook this is a size tapestry needle I used for the smaller bullion stitch this

is the tapestry needle I purchased which is a larger one that I'll be using for

this project I bought it from jo-ann fabric and crafts we'll start with a

chain five join chain one work a single crochet chain 5 slip stitch in the

single crochet work two single crochet chain five

slip stitch in the single crochet work two single crochet chain 5 slip stitch

in the single crochet work two single crochet through the loop chain 5 slip

stitch in the single crochet work two single crochet through the loop when

this is complete we'll have a total of six loops 12 single crochet we have two

more loops of 5 to do

work to single crochet now we're working on our last loop slip stitch in the top

of the single crochet work one single crochet slip stitch with the beginning

single crochet I'm going to leave this loop I'm not going to cut it off and

change colors now I'm going to take my little contraption for making the

boolean flower and I'm going to slip it right in here between my gooshie grip

and the other way is if you just have the plastic tube of course I already

have a plastic tube on here you can do it this way but I found that since I

have the gooshie grip on here I like to have a little bit more space and it

makes them a little bit more full by doing it just about like that the longer

needle works better with the larger crochet hooks and it'll stretch across

the front I can use this tapestry needle with an H or an eye crochet hook pull

the loop up drop it from the hook insert the hook and the tapestry needle through

the loop wrap the yarn around the tapestry needle and hook seven times

four five six seven insert the hook through the loop with the tapestry

needle going on top wrap the yarn over the hook pull it through and then pull

through all the loops wrap the yarn over the hook and pull through

you

I am making my Slipknot and I will be slip stitching my new color onto the

flower you can start it in any loop when we're finished we'll be cutting the

green now chain three now pull up and make a larger loop here take the hook

off the loop insert the hook and the tapestry needle through the loop just

like that i've been wrapping the yarn around seven times you can do more or

less it's your choice there's four five six

seven now i insert the hook through the loop with the needle going on the top

wrap the yarn over pull it through the loop grab a hold of all the loops pull

it through just like that wrap the yarn over the hook pull it through and I've

completed my first bullion stitch pull the loop up that you just completed drop

it from the hook insert the hook and the tapestry needle through the loop wrap

your yarn around seven times there's two three four five six seven insert the

hook through the loop the tapestry needle goes on top wrap the yarn over

the hook pull it through and then pull it through the loops just like that wrap

the yarn over and pull through now to our complete pull the loop up drop it

from the hook insert the hook and the tapestry needle through the loop wrap

the yarn around the tapestry needle and hook seven times there's four five six

seven insert the hook through the loop with the tapestry needle going on top

wrap the yarn over the hook pull it through and then pull through all the

loops

wrap the yarn over the hook and pull through pull the loop up drop it from

the hook insert the hook and the tapestry needle through the loop wrap it

around seven times three four five six seven insert the hook through the loop

tapestry needle goes on top wrap the yarn over the hook pull through pull

through all the loops wrap the yarn over the hook pull through to secure we've

completed for bullion stitches we have one more to do pull the loop up drop it

from the hook insert the hook and tapestry needle through the loop wrap it

around seven times there's two three four five six seven insert the hook

through the loop wrap the yarn over the hook pull it through pull through all

the loops wrap the yarn over the hook pull through the loop to complete the

five bling stitches for the first petal do two more chains and then work a

single crochet in this loop work a single crochet in the next loop and I've

temporarily removed my tapestry needle because it does get in the way sometimes

chain three I'm going to put it back on

pull the loop up drop the loop from the hook insert the crochet hook and

tapestry needle through the loop wrap the yarn around seven times four five

six seven insert the crochet hook through the loop tapestry needle on top

wrap the yarn over over the hook pull it through pull through all seven loops

wrap the yarn over the hook and chain to secure

and you'll be working five bullion stitches you can decide how many bullion

stitches you want to make if you want to modify your flower there's a chain three

single crochet at the end single crochet on the first loop with a chain three

five bullion stitches worked and all the petals are the same now I have two more

stitches to do

I work the last single crochet slip stitch with the beginning chain

now I've completed the petals I'm going to remove my tapestry needle I don't

need it at this point I'm going to pick up my pink yarn that I left attached

wrap the yarn over the hook pull it through and I'm going to work a single

crochet through the single crochet round like that in the chains I'm going to

work a slip stitch the next chain work a slip stitch in the next chain work a

slip stitch if we flip our flower around there are long loops that were formed

when we created the bullion stitch we're going to use those and we are going to

insert our hook under the loop and make one single crochet and then make a

second single crochet we will be putting two single crochet in each loop on the

back side there's one two and I'm just inserting my hook underneath like that

one inserting it through again two so we'll have ten single crochet across the

top one two one two

and we will do one slip stitch in each chain

work a single crochet in the single crochet round below and this is what we

have for our petals now work one slip stitch in each of the three chains

two single crochet in each loop on the backside

these are the loops that I'm referring to there are there should be five and

work one two three four two single crochet in each loop go over to the

third loop five six

seven eight

nine ten

now work a slip stitch in each chain now will single crochet in the single

crochet around below between the petals just like that now we've completed two

petals each of the remaining four petals will be done the same way one slip

stitch in each of the three chains two single crochet in each loop on the

backside for a total of ten one slip stitch in each of the three chains on

the way down between the petals and then the single crochet I have finished the

edging around to the beginning single crochet I'm going to work a slip stitch

to join cut the yarn and then pull through the tail this completes the

bullion variation to the cheerful flower

this will show how to place the bullion flower in to the Afghan this petal will

be attached here the next petal will be attached here this one will be attached

right here and the last one right here so we will need for open petals it is

not necessary for the edging amount of the different flowers to match since

they are being centered you can find your Center and then kind of eyeball it

and place them in they don't have to be exact I'm at the center of my flower I

find the center of the matching flower make sure you have the right side facing

which I didn't so I had to flip it over otherwise I would have been adding my

flower to the wrong side now slip stitch it in just like that I'm going to work

one more single crochet in the loop I have two more loops back here

which means for single crochet now I met the center of the next flower petal this

is the one we just attached now I'm going to be working with these two

petals I'm at the center of my next flower petal and I'm going to pick up

two loops for added security to the other flower petal attach this flower

petal to this flower petal wrap the yarn over pull it through now in the same

space work the second partial single crochet and attach it to the next flower

petal continue on around with the edging to the next flower petal I'm at the

third flower petal and I'm picking up the two loops here I will be joining

right in here I'm attaching to the first petal

and work a single crochet in the same space attached to the next flower petal

and continue around to the last flower petal we've completed these three flower

petals or at the last flower petal

and continuing around to finish the edging that completes attaching the

flower