How to Make a Yarn Brooch
Turn leftover fingering-weight yarn and a large safety pin into a fancy yarn brooch with basic crochet skills. Once you've figured out the basic mechanics of making a brooch, the sky's the limit in terms of design. The basic pattern requires you to crochet a circle and adorn it with a pretty button, but you can also make flowers, geometric shapes, small granny squares or anything else you can imagine and sew to a pin.
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Things You'll Need
- Fingering-weight yarn
- Size D crochet hook
- Large safety pin
- Scissors
- Button
- Sewing needle
- Thread
- Scissors
Instructions
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Crochet a three-stitch chain. Join the first and last links of the chain with a slip stitch, forming a ring.
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Work 12 single-crochet stitches into the ring. Join the round with a slip stitch.
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Make two single-crochet stitches into each stitch of the previous round. Join the round with a slip stitch.
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Continue increasing with each consecutive row. On the next round, work one stitch into the first stitch, two into the second, one into the third, two into the fourth and so on. On the round after that, increase into every third stitch. Join every round with a slip stitch, fastening off after the last round.
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Thread a sewing needle with a 36-inch piece of thread, so that when folded and tied in a knot you will have 18 inches of thread. Sew the pin onto the back of the circle. Lay the closed end of the pin against the crochet fabric so you can open the end closest to your clothing.
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Pull the thread through to the front of the crochet. Use the same thread to sew a button in the middle of the circle. Tie off the thread on the back of the brooch.
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