I will be catching up this week with all granny squares and flowers.
Week 5: THE POPCORN FLOWER:
SQUARE.....
or HEXAGON...
There are a few variations in blog land, several on which let the last stitch go from the hook, then pick up the begining of the 'petal' and then re pick up the dropped stitch again before doing the chain spacing!!!!
NOTE: the bigger the chain space say 3 ch space will give a sharper squarer looking 'petal'
No chain, or 1 chain space will give a rounder more puff like motif as below
Popcorn stitch is often used to form petals in flowers. But it looks very like a pleat with a chain space between
POPCORN SQUARE MOTIF PATTERN:
USA Terms, 5mm hook and DK yarn
Most popcorns are done with a dc but I use a treble to give a slightly bigger 'popcorn' or 'petal'
Chain 4, sl st into a circle
Round 1: 12 dc into circle sl st to complete round
Round 2: 5 tr, into the 1st st,
turn the motif over, sl st into the first treble,
chain 3, 5 trebles into the next st, turn to the back of the motif, sl st into the ch3 space, pull the yarn through and do 3ch sts as the space.
Repeat until you have a popcorn in each st, then sl st into the top of the first popcorn
Round 3: start in any ch 3 space, 3dc, 2ch, 3dc (corner) 2sc in the next space, ch 1, 2sc in the next space, then do 3dc, 2ch, 3dc, in the next space repeat until you have a square, sl st to complete the round.
Round 4; 1dc, 2ch, 1dc in each corner and 1dc in each stitch for the sides. Each side should have 13 dc and 2 chain corners
TO MAKE A HEXAGON
Make the motif to round 2 (flower)
ROUND 3: start in any space, 3dc, 2ch, 3dc (corner) 3dc in next space, repeat 5 more times (6sides)
sl st to complete round
Another square tomorrow
happy hooking x
