CROCHET PATTERNS (Pattern #75 Hydrangea) – 365 Crochet Flowers Bouquet Project

Introduction

Hydrangea or Hortensia as I use to call it, is a perennial flowering bush native to southern and eastern Asia and the Americas.

The most popular variety, Hydrangea macrophylla bears large ball-shaped flower heads in pink, blue or purple shades depending on the pH-level and aluminum content of the soil.  The flower heads are carried at the end of the stems and are made up of numerous smaller individual flowers.

How to Crochet a Hydrangea Flower?

Crochet Yarn

• embroidery cotton colour A = pink, colour B = blue.

Crochet Hook

•  2mm steel hook.

Details of components

• 3 or 4 petal individual florets with a little ball in the centre.

Due to time constraints, I’ve made a only small number of individual crochet hydrangea flowers. You get the idea; if you’d like to make a big flower head, make as many individual flowers as you can and assemble the flower head.

We’ll make two styles of flowers: one with 3 petals and one with 4 petals. The instructions for the two styles are very similar, just the number of petals and size are different.

Crochet Pattern

dtr (double treble = Yarn over hook three times)

trtr (treble treble, or triple treble = Yarn over hook four times)

Crochet Hydrangea Flower (style 1)  – 2pcs.

Start: using 2mm hook and colour A or B make 1ch, and 1 clone knot

R1: make 3ch, join in ring with sl st keeping the knot in the middle of the ring, 1ch

R2: make 2sc in each ch = 6sc, join with sl st, 1ch

R3: (1sc, 7ch, 6 dtr cluster, 1picot, 7ch, 1sc in next sc) x 3 = 3 petals.

Crochet Hydrangeas Flower (style 2) – 3pcs.

Start: using 2mm hook and colour A or B make 1ch, and 1 clone knot

R1: make 4ch, join in ring with sl st keeping the knot in the middle of the ring, 1ch

R2: make 8sc in the ring, join with sl st, 1ch

R3: (1sc, 8ch, 6 trtr cluster, 1picot, 8ch, 1sc in next sc) x 4 = 4 petals.

Assembly

I've assembled the flower head using a few twiggs and super glue. If you have time, why not make about 20 florets and assemble them. That will make a great flower head!

Conclusion

This is it!  The crochet Hydrangea flower is ready!

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If you have stumbled upon this page and you haven't heard about the 365 Crochet Flowers Bouquet Project, then feel free to check out the crochet patterns that I've designed so far!

Happy Crocheting!

_Camelia