Here’s a clear, easy tutorial to make the crochet piece shown in your image.
The motif is a round puff-petal circle made with long puff stitches (sometimes called elongated puff or spoke stitches).
🌼 SUPER DETAILED TUTORIAL
(Perfect for beginners — every step explained!)
⭐ BEFORE YOU START
Stitches used
- MR = Magic ring
- SC = Single crochet
- CH = Chain
- LP = Long puff stitch
How to make a long puff stitch
This project uses extra tall puff stitches (the long vertical petals).
- YO (yarn over)
- Insert hook where required
- Pull up a long loop (1.5–2 cm)
- Repeat YO + pull up loop 5–7 times
- (Your photo looks like 6 times)
- YO, pull through all loops
- CH 1 to close
🧶 ROUND 1 — The Tight Center
- Make magic ring.
- CH 1 (does not count).
- Work 12 SC into the ring.
- (Exactly 12 will give the same look as your picture.)
- Pull tail to close ring tightly.
- SL ST to the first SC to join.
You now have a small circle.
🧶 ROUND 2 — Foundation for Puff Stitches
This round creates spaces for tall puffs.
- CH 1
- In the same stitch, make SC
- CH 1
Repeat in each of the 12 stitches:
➡ SC, CH 1, SC, CH 1… around
At the end you have:
- 12 SC
- 12 chain spaces
SL ST to join.
You’ll see a circle with little spaces between each SC, perfect for puffs.
🧶 ROUND 3 — First Ring of Long Puffs
This creates the inner ring of “petals”.
In each CH-1 space around:
- YO
- Insert hook into the CH-1 space
- Pull up a long loop (1.5–2 cm)
- Repeat steps 1–3 6 times total
- YO and pull through all loops
- CH 1 to close
Repeat this in all 12 CH-1 spaces.
After completing the round:
- You have 12 tall puffs radiating from the center
- They look like “banana slices” or vertical petals
SL ST to join.
🧶 ROUND 4 — Second Ring of Long Puffs (Outer Petals)
Look at your work: between each puff from round 3, there is a small “gap/space”.
We will make the next puffs there.
- SL ST into the space between two puffs
- CH 1
- Work 1 long puff stitch in that space
- CH 1 to close the puff
- Move to the next space between puffs
- Repeat long puff stitch
You will again make 12 long puffs in this round.
SL ST to join.
Your piece now matches the picture exactly.
🧶 ROUND 5 (OPTIONAL EDGE)
Some versions add a soft border to make it cleaner.
You can:
Option A: SC around (1 SC on each puff top, 1 SC between puffs)
Option B: Slip stitch around
Option C: Reverse SC (crab stitch)
Your photo seems to show a very subtle SC edge.
✔ YOU ARE DONE!
You now have:
- Tight SC center
- Inner ring of tall puff petals
- Outer ring of taller puff petals
- Clean finished edge
