Flower Granny Square - Free Applique and Granny Square Crochet Pattern

I'm loving this little crochet flower!

1. It's simple.

2. It's so fun to play around with different colors to get different looks.

3. It fits in perfectly for my llamas and cactus afghan!

I encourage you to play around with pairing different colors and just having fun with it! 

When I sewed my flowers on my squares, I sewed the centers down on the square making a 3D effect for the petals. I think it makes it more fun and gives some extra texture to the blanket!

As you can see, the flowers made a wonderful compliment to the llamas and cacti! You can find all the information you need to make the entire blanket here.

Materials:
Worsted weight yarn in two colors for petals
Worsted weight yarn in white for granny square and flower center
G/4.00 mm hook
J/6.00mm hook
Scissors
Tapestry Needle

Flower Pattern

Use G/4.00mm hook in one color (inner petals)

Round 1: Magic ring, ch 1, 10 sc in ring, join to first sc
Round 2: (Ch 3, dc, ch 2, 2 dc) in same space, *sk 1, sl st in next st, (Ch 3, dc, ch 2, 2dc) all in same space as last sl st, repeat from * around, join to bottom of beginning ch 3
Fasten off

Use J/6.00mm hook in second color (outer petals)

Round 1: Magic ring, ch 2, 12hdc in ring, join to first hdc
Round 2: (Ch 3, 2dc, ch 2, 3dc) in same space, *sk 1, sl st in next st, (Ch 3, 2dc, ch 2, 3dc) in same space as last sl st, repeat from * around, join to bottom of beginning ch 3
Fasten off

Sew smaller petals onto bigger petals.

Using white yarn, sew onto the center of the petals horizontally, vertically, and diagnoally both ways to make the center.

Granny Square Pattern

Using J/6.00mm hook

Round 1: Magic ring, ch 2, 12 dc in ring, join to first dc (12)

Round 2: Ch 2, 2dc in each st around, join to first dc (24)

Round 3: Ch 3 (counts as stitch), (dc, ch 3, 2dc) in same st as ch 3, dc, hdc, sc, hdc, dc, *(2dc, ch 3, 2dc) all in next st, dc, hdc, sc, hdc, dc, repeat from * around, join to beginning ch 3 (each side of square will have 9 st)

Round 4: Sl st to ch 3 space from previous row, Ch 3 (counts as st) (dc, ch 3, 2dc) all in same ch 3 space, dc across, *(2dc, ch 3, 2dc) all in ch 3 space from previous row, dc across, repeat from * around, join to beginning ch 3 (each side of square will have 13 st)

Round 5: Repeat Round 4 (each side of square will have 17 st)

Fasten off

Find the llama and cacti patterns as well as all the information you need to make the entire Llama and Cactus blanket here.