Monday, March 2, 2015

Simple leaf pattern from Russian crochet site

This comes from a Russian site via Yandex which translates it to absolute gibberish.
These leaves are used to decorate a child's hat. 
http://www.liveinternet.ru/users/4163063/post276192485/

I translated this for someone on a forum but things get buried in forums so I am making this copy available here on my blog.

The day I posted this, the questioner found a video in Russian for making this on you tube.

I corrected my writeup based on just looking at the pictures below.
Here is the link to the You Tube video of leaves



LEAVES

Chain 15. Make a SC in the second chain from hook.

leaves (1) (600x600, 62Kb)

leaves (2) (600x600, 57Kb)
Working in the front loops of each chain make:
1 hdc,1 dc, 2 trebles, 3 double trebles, 2 trebles, 1 dc, 1hdc, 1 sc 

This makes a 13 stitch rounded half leaf. You are at the end of the chain.
Slip stitch to the beginning chain and slip stitch to the other side of the chain.

leaves (3) (600x600, 72Kb)



Turn the leaf over so the unused loops shown at the bottom of the picture above are to your left.

Now working in the back loops ( you used up the front loops for the first half of the leaf) make the same series of stitches as the first side.

Pull the yarn through the last loop and tie it off. Cut the yarn leaving an 8 inch tail. Bury this tail into the center stitches on the back of the leaf, now or when you finish all three leaves.

Attach the yarn to the top of the leaf (away from where the cut tail is).







leaves (4) (600x600, 79Kb)


Now chain 25 stitches. 10 of them are your stem between leaves.
Make another leaf on the 15 chains just like the first leaf. See picture below.


  
leaves (6) (600x600, 72Kb) 

Chain another 15 stitches from the base of leaf 2. Make your third leaf so the second and third leaves are joined at the base to the same 10th chain off the first leaf.

Now working in the back loops ( you used up the front loops for the first half of the leaf) make the same series of stitches as the first side.



leaves (7) (600x600, 81Kb)


Tie off the thread and bury the tail.  If you would like to keep going and make more leaves on a longer sprig, keep repeating these steps until you have the number of leaves you want.












leaves (8) (600x600, 80Kb)

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