Jacinta Flower Detailed Tutorial

This pattern has a story attached about a little stillborn baby named Jacinta and a mother who named a crochet flower pattern after her.

If you are interested, you can find more detailed version of Jacinta's story here.

If there are any mistakes or confusing directions please let me know so that I can make the corrections or clarifications.

OK, let's get started on this Jacinta Flower!

Chain 6

Join with slip stitch to form ring

Round 1:
Chain 3, this counts as first dc

Work 15 dc into ring (total of 16 dc)

Join with slip stitch into top of first dc 

Round 2:

Ch 1

Sc in same space 

Chain 3

Skip next dc and sc in next dc

Repeat this pattern (chain 3, skip one dc, sc in next dc) all the way around 

Join with slip st in the first sc (total of 8 ch-3 spaces)

Round 3:

Chain 1

Sc in same st

(2 sc, ch 3, 2 sc) in next ch-3 space

 Sc in next sc

Repeat (2 sc, ch 3, 2 sc) in next ch-3 sp; sc in next sc 

all the way around

 Join with ss in first sc

Round 4:

ch 1, sc in same st

dc in next 3-ch sp (This is the start of your first petal)

 (Ch 1 dc in same ch-3 sp) 4 times (Boom! First petal complete)

Skip 2 sc and sc in next stitch

Skip 2 sc, dc in next ch-3 sp; (ch 1, dc)4 times in same ch-3 sp, skip 2 sc, sc in next sc; repeat

all the way around, join with a slip stitch in the first stitch (8 petals)

Round 5:
Slip stitch into next dc

Slip stitch in next 1-ch space

ch 1, sc in same ch-1 space, ch 3

sc in next 1-ch sp

ch 3, sc in next 1-ch sp (2 times)

skip next (dc, sc, dc); sc in next 1-ch space

(ch 3, sc in next 1-ch sp) 3 times in next petal; sc in first 1-ch space of next petal, all the way around

 slip st in first sc

 Finish off! You're done. 

Well, hello there, Jacinta Flower!

 No wait! Sew in those ends, there is no time like the present.

 When weaving in ends change direction  prevent those rascals from coming out. 

 Now your done!

Depending on what you are doing with the flowers you might want to block them. Trixie demonstrates how to do this below. She is a little heavy with the pins.

Now go forth and make tons of them. . . 

in various colors . . . 

in various sizes. . . .

using various yarns. . .

and then pose those bad boys and take pictures

and maybe even pose with them.

Later you can make them into squares and spend time dreaming of all the things you can make with them.

Most of all share them with people, hopefully they will bring someone a bit of joy.

So there you have it, the Jacinta flower. And here is Jacinta, the sweet little girl that inspired it. 

Jacinta Maria Owusu-Tyo

January 3, 2011