Flowers N Lace Crocheted Earrings; Pattern by Anitalite ;-)_

I was making a doily from a book I ordered and received today, and put it down suddenly so I could make these earrings.  They kind of popped into my head, I believe the doily did it to me this time.   Thanks Patricia for the inspiration motivation.  I'll never be the designer that Patricia is, I don't consider myself a designer at all, just out to have fun and "hook"...  

Materials:

1 partial ball white size 10 crochet thread
1 partial ball rose (or any other color) size 10 crochet thread (color 2)
1 steel crochet hook, size 7
1 pair hoop earrings 1.5" diameter
3 small white beads for middle of flowers (optional)
   or
1 yarn needle for making french knot <--- click for tutorial on youtube.com - for flower centers (optional)

Row 1:

Attach white with sl st, keeping hoop inside stitches, 6   (sc, ch 3) 5 times, 6 sc, sl st,   ch 3, turn.

Row 2:

sk 1 sc, sc in next, (ch 3, sk 1 sc, sc in next) two times; (ch 3, sc in top of ch 3 loop) 5 times, (sc in next sc, ch 3, sk 1 sc, sc in next sc) 3 times, sl st to hoop

Row 3:

sc in first ch 3 loop, sl st to 5th ch 3 loop; (ch 3, sc in next loop) 3 times; ch 3 sl st in next loop and to end of row.
ch 1, tyrn.

Row 4:

sl st to middle of first ch 3 loop, (ch 3, sc in next loop) twice, ch 3, sl st in next loop, sl st to end; fasten off, weave in ends.

Row 5:

Attach color 2 to first loop of row 3 with sl st.   (ch 4, sl st in 1st ch of ch 4 four times, join all four picots with sl st in same sc)- one quad picot flower made.  ch 3, sc in middle ch 3 loop, ch 3 sc in last loop, make quad picot flower., sl st once more inside same loop.  fasten off, weave in ends.

Row 6:

attach white (main color) to ch 3 loop of last row with sc.  sc in middle sc (between two color 2 loops) and sc in next ch 3 loop, ch 1, turn

Row 7:

sl st in first sc, (hdc, dc, hdc) in middle sc, sl st in last sc.


Row 8:


sl st into first hdc st, make picot (ch 4, sl st in same st) ch 3 sc in dc, ch 3, sl st in next hdc, make picot, sl st in ch 3 loop (color 2) of row 5 (to anchor picot and end row) fasten off, weave in ends.

Middle flower:


attach color 2 (rose) to both posts of dc from row 7.  (ch 4, sl st in first ch, sl st tog in both posts of same dc) 4 times, sl st once more into same dc.  fasten off.

Row 9:
with front side of work facing,
attach main color (white) directly to hoop, just right of first stitch of first row.  sl st in next three stitches, ch 3, sk 1 st, sl st in next.  ch 3, skip 1 st, sl st in next st.  working behind flowers, sc in next loop, ch 1, sc in next space right of first color 2 flower, ch 1, sc in next space to left of same flower, ch 1, sc into closest available space on same row, behind middle cluster (hdc, dc, hdc cluster), ch 1, sc into next available space of same row behind st cluster, ch 1, sc into space just before 2nd color 2 flower, ch 1, sc into space just after same flower (both of the last two sc will be inside the ch 3 loop of  row 5 (color 2) and will be covering the color 2 st so it will show white instead of color 2 (rose).   ch 3, (you should now be where the sl st started (or ended) from row 4 - sl st in first sl st, (ch 3, skip 1 st, sl st in next)  3 times, sl st hoop inside sl st at end and finish off.

Add small beads or french knots into middle of all three color 2 (rose) picots, if desired.

This pattern has not been tested, please record any errors corrections in comments below or you can email corrections to me here  thank you and have fun!

copyright 2010 anitalite ;-)_