This is a beautiful crochet flower lace motif, often called a chain-linked puff flower or shell lace edging. I’ll show you step-by-step how to make it. 🌸
🧶 Materials
- Yarn: Medium or light-weight acrylic or cotton yarn
- Hook: 3.0 mm – 4.0 mm
- Other: Scissors, yarn needle
🌼 STEP-BY-STEP INSTRUCTIONS (very detailed)
🔹 STEP 1: Make the first flower center
- Make a slip knot on your hook.
- Chain (ch) 6.
- Join with a slip stitch (sl st) into the first chain to make a small ring. 👉 This ring will be the middle hole of your flower.
🔹 STEP 2: Create base round
- Ch 3 (this counts as your first double crochet – dc).
- Work 11 more dc into the ring.
- You now have 12 dc total (including the starting ch-3).
- Join with sl st to the top of the beginning ch-3.
👉 You now have a flat small circle with 12 stitches.
🔹 STEP 3: Start the petals (puff stitches)
Each petal is made using puff stitches — this gives that soft, puffy look like in your photo.
- Ch 1 to start.
- In the same stitch, do:
- Yarn over (yo), insert the hook in the stitch, pull up a long loop (about 1 cm).
- Repeat this 4 times (you’ll have 9 loops on your hook).
- Yo and pull through all 9 loops, then ch 1 to close the puff.
- Ch 2 for spacing.
- Skip 1 stitch, and make another puff stitch in the next stitch.
➡ Repeat puff + ch 2, skip 1 stitch all around.
➡ You should get 6 puffs total evenly spaced around.
➡ Join with a sl st on top of the first puff stitch.
Your first flower is done! 🌸
🔹 STEP 4: Make connection chain to the next flower
- Ch 5, then sl st into the ch-2 space of the last puff of your previous flower** — this connects them together.**
- Ch 5 again, then join with sl st to form a new ring.
Now you’ve created the base circle for your second flower.
🔹 STEP 5: Make the second flower
Repeat steps 2–3 exactly as before:
- Work 12 dc into the new ring.
- Join with sl st.
- Add 6 puff stitches with ch-2 spaces around.
- Join with sl st to finish.
As you continue, each flower will join naturally to the previous one by the connecting chains.
🔹 STEP 6: Continue pattern
Repeat Step 4 and 5 for as many flowers as you like.
You can make a long lace strip or a looped border for clothing, scarves, or blankets.
🌸 Optional: Finishing
- When done, fasten off and cut yarn.
- Weave in ends using a yarn needle.
- For neatness, lightly steam or block the lace so petals open nicely.
🔹 Stitch Summary
| Stitch Name | Abbreviation | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Chain | ch | Basic loop stitch |
| Slip Stitch | sl st | Join or move without height |
| Double Crochet | dc | Yarn over once, pull through two loops twice |
| Puff Stitch | puff | Yarn over, insert, pull loop up multiple times, then pull through all |
