water lily crochet pattern
I’m happy that so many of you are enjoying my botanical crochet patterns – it’s a refreshing change for me to mix it up a bit (although don’t worry, I won’t neglect the animal designs either!). I just love nature, and now I have an excuse to examine animals and plants in detail and challenge myself to recreate the essence of what I find in a simplified, easily reproducible way. This ‘job’ makes me very happy!
As you know, I can’t make a pattern for my darling Reepicheep, but I can and have made one for the lovely water lily you’ve seen with him! How about making a realistic crocheted water lily (or lotus blossom) arrangement as a beautiful decoration or table centrepiece?
This is a bit different to most of my other patterns: there’s no stuffing involved, and it’s *gasp* not all worked in single crochet, although it is all worked in very simple stitches, so it’s not difficult at all. The pattern includes full instructions with step by step photos and clear illustrations at every stage, so you can easily crochet your own Water Lily. With two different leaf sizes, you can create an aquatic arrangement with as many leaves and blossoms as you want.
Although the blossoms are fairly time-intensive (11 parts to each blossom, but they are worth it, I promise), the leaves are an absolute joy to crochet – you can work one up in minutes! So if you’re making an arrangement, I’d suggest several leaves to every flower – in reality, each plant has many leaves and a single flower, so you won’t even be cheating!
To give a more delicate effect, I used sport DK weight yarn for my petals, instead of my usual worsted weight, but you could use worsted weight for everything if you prefer (I give size comparison information in the pattern).
You could pick up my Water Lily crochet pattern from the shop and crochet one this weekend!
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Sheila Gatlin said
could you send me the middle of the crochet flower pattern
June said
No problem, Sheila, you can find my Water Lily pattern in my shop (click here to go straight to it!)
Sandra Robichaux said
How can I get this pattern?
June said
Sandra, you can find my Water Lily pattern in my shop (click here to go straight to it!)
Amy said
No! This is sad to me :(. I just stumbled on your wonderful blog and all these beautiful crochet things. I LOVE reepicheep as he’s my favorite Narnia character. I wish I could make him too..is it because of the copyright that you can’t post the pattern? If there was any way you might be willing to offer it for free I’d be so so happy..but in anycase, great blog! Great patterns! ~ God bless
June said
Aww, I’m so sorry, Amy! It’s a combination of things:
There’s a reason why my art pieces look ‘better’ than my patterns – and it’s that they take an awful lot longer for me to make, and aren’t at all easy (the ease of following the pattern is always something I build into my designs when I’m going to turn them into patterns). It’s just my style that makes them look simple – the art pieces are deceptively complex behind the scenes!