Separate patterns have been written for British and US terminology.

I designed this little flower as an ornament for a Christmas parcel, at a friend’s request.

You could also use it as an embellishment on a hat, bag, cushion etc, or attach a hair-slide or brooch pin to the back.

It also works pretty well as a pen topper, but you may need a dab of glue to help it stay in place, depending on your gauge.

Use any thread or yarn and an appropriately-sized hook to the yarn or thread you use. The size of the decoration will vary with the size of the fibre used. For the example illustrated (about 2”/5cm diameter), I used a size 10 crochet thread held together with a strand of Twilley’s Goldfingering in Silver, worked with a 4mm (G) hook.

It’s worked by crocheting twice into the same round - once into the front loops, then back round again into the back loops. You can create a bigger flower if you wish, by adding 4ch to the loops of each extra odd-numbered round, but the back of the flower does become quite thick, quite quickly.