How to Crochet a Rose

Hey everyone, and welcome to my channel, Simply Lazy. Since spring is finally here, I thought I'd show you how to make a crochet rose. It's a really intricate looking flower that's easy to make, so let's get started. To make the crochet roses, you will need red or pink yarn, a crochet hook, I'll be using a 5.5mm hook, scissors, and a sewing needle. The stitches we will be using are the slip stitch, chain, single crochet, half double crochet, and double crochet. So before I started, I made a rose, but I didn't connect it, so it still has all of the tails. To help you understand how we will be making the rose, because at first glance it looks pretty difficult, but so it's basically just one long curly strip of crochet. So there are three main sections of this. There are large petals, there's 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, where we use the double crochet. Then there are medium sized petals, there's 1, 2, 3, 4, where we use the half double crochet. And then there are three small petals, where we use the single crochet, 1, 2, and 3. And then we just curl it up, and sew it together to make our rose. So we're going to start by making a slip knot. Then insert your crochet hook, and tighten the string. Then we're going to make a chain of 26. So to chain, you have your hook facing away from you, put it on the left side of the string, yarn over, and pull through. So that's one chain. So continue until you have 26 chains. So the next row is entirely single crochet. We're going to skip this first stitch, and do a single crochet into this second. So we skip one, and insert into the second chain, yarn over, come out, so we have two loops on the hook, yarn over, and pull through two. Again, we insert, yarn over, come out, with two loops, we yarn over, and pull through both. So just continue until you have 25 single crochet. So now we've completed our row of single crochet. And so we did this as a base for our petals. So now we can turn our work, and start on the petals. So like I showed you before, we had large petals, medium petals, and small petals. So we're going to start with the large petals, using the double crochet. So we're going to skip this first stitch, and insert into this second one. So we skip one, and insert here. So we yarn over, and then insert into the second one from the hook, yarn over, come out. So now we have three loops on our hook. Then we're going to yarn over, and pull through only the first two, leaving two loops. Yarn over, and pull through those last two. Now we're going to do four more double crochet into this same stitch. So again, we yarn over, insert, yarn over, come out, with three loops, yarn over, pull through only the first two, yarn over, pull through the last two. So just keep going until you have five double crochet. So now we have our five, we're going to slip stitch into this next stitch. So this one right here. So we insert, yarn over, come out, and pull through. So we've just completed our first petal. So we're going to repeat the same thing for the next one. So we're going to do five double crochet into this stitch. So yarn over, insert, yarn over, come out, with three loops, yarn over, pull through only the first two, yarn over, and pull through the last two. So again, we finished our five double crochet, and then we slip stitch into this next stitch. Insert, yarn over, come out, with two loops, and then we pull through. So just repeat the same process we did for each of the petals until you have five large petals total. So now we're done with the large petals, and we're going to work on the four medium petals. So it's the same thing, except we're working with half double crochet instead of double crochet. So we start by yarning over, inserting into this next stitch, so yarn over, insert, yarn over, come out, so we have three loops on the hook, yarn over, and pull through all three. We do the same thing until we have five half double crochet. Then, we slip stitch into this next stitch, so we insert, yarn over, come out, and pull through. And continue in the same pattern by doing five half double in the next stitch, and then slip stitch into the one afterwards. So now we've done our four medium sized petals, and we're going to work on the three small petals. So again, it's the same thing, except with single crochet. So to do single crochet, we insert, yarn over, come out, so we have two loops on the hook, yarn over, and pull through both. So just do five into this same stitch. Then slip stitch into the next, and continue until you have three small petals. So now we're done with all of our petals. So we're going to chain one, and pull until you have about ten or so inches. We want a long tail. Then we're going to use our scissors to cut it, and then pull tight. So the only thing left to do is to sew it together. So I'm going to start by sewing this first tail in, and cut the excess off. Then I'm going to take my long tail, and put it through my sewing needle. Now I'm just forming the small petals in the way that I want them to look, and putting my needle through one of the petals to get to the back where we're going to be sewing. Now I'm sewing the rows together by sewing only through the single crochet, which is the base for our petals. Then I flip the rows over and rearrange the petals to make them look how I want them to, and continue sewing, making sure to sew all the way around the rows, and not just in one particular area. Then I repeat the same steps by flipping over the rows and arranging the final petals how I want them to look. Then I continue sewing all the way around the rows. So now I've left this flap from one of the large petals, so I'm just going to sew it to one of the medium petals to make sure that it's attached. And finally, I'm just going to even the ends by sewing through one of the petals. Then I'm just going to cut off what's left over. And so we started by making one of the long strips of crochet, and then we curled it all back together in a way that we wanted it to be, and sewed it. So this is our completed crochet rose. Now that you know how to make your crochet rose, you can add it to lots of different things, like headbands or granny squares. And it's similar to the puff flower, where you can add it to lots of different projects to add a pop of color. Thank you so much for watching this video. If you found it helpful, please give it a thumbs up. Please subscribe to my channel down below, and I'll see you next week. Bye!