How to Crochet a Poinsettia

Using Holly Berry.

Make 4

Start with a slip knot and chain 9.

Single crochet in the second chain from the hook.

Do a half double crochet.

Do a double crochet 3.

Do a half double crochet.
Do a single crochet.
In the last chain, 3 single crochets.

Working on the opposite side of the chain, single crochet.

Do a half double crochet.
Do 3 double crochets.

Do a half double crochet.
Do a single crochet.
Slip stitch to the first stitch to join.

Cut your yarn, pull it through, and tighten. Weave in the ends.
Repeat this process for the remaining three small red petals.

Using Holly Berry.

Make 8

Start with a slip knot and chain 11.
Single crochet in the second chain from the hook.

Do a half double crochet.
Double crochet 1.

Treble/triple crochet in the next 3 chains. (Triple = yarn over two times, insert hook into the chain, yarn over, and pull back through. You have four loops. Yarn over, pull through two, yarn over pull through two, yarn over, and pull through the last two.)

Do a double crochet.
Do a half double crochet.
Do a single crochet.
In the last chain, single crochet 3.

Tip: Tighten the chain so that you know what stitch you're going to next.

Now, work on next stitch on the opposite side of the chain.

Do a single crochet.
Do a half double crochet.
Do a double crochet.

Do 3 treble/triple crochets.
Do a double crochet.
Do a half double crochet.
Do a single crochet.
Slip stitch to the first stitch to join.

Cut your yarn, pull it through, and tighten. Weave in the ends.
Repeat this process for the remaining three medium red petals.

Using Holly Berry for petals.
Using Evergreen for leaves.

Make 7 Red and 3 Green

Start with a slip knot and chain 15.
Single crochet in the second chain from the hook.
Do a half double crochet.
Double crochet 2.

Treble/triple in the next 5 chains.

Double crochet 2.

Do a half double crochet.
Do a single crochet.
In the last chain, single crochet 3 times. Tighten.

Working on the opposite side of the chain, single crochet.
Do a half double crochet.
Double crochet in the next 2 chains.

Treble/triple in the next 5 chains.

Double crochet 2.
Half double crochet.
Do a single crochet.

Slip stitch to the first stitch to join.
Cut your yarn, pull it through, and tighten. Weave in the ends.

Repeat this process for the remaining seven large red petals and three green leaves.

Using Daffodil.

Make 1

Start with a slip knot and chain 2.

Single crochet 6 in the first chain. You will not join with the slip stitch here.
Next, slip stitch, chain 4, slip stitch in the same stitch, chain 4, and then slip stitch. This will be repeated in each stitch.

You will have two chain 4 loops and 3 slip stitches per stitch.

Repeat the previous step for the second chain.

Fasten off by doing a slip stitch in the next space. Cut a long length of yarn and pull the tail all the way through. Then tighten.

Thread your yarn needle with red yarn.
Join the first 4 large red petals in the middle.

Place a green leaf underneath the red petals, ends matching up with the ends in the middle. Use the yarn needle to go through the middle of all the petals and the leaf.
Push the remaining 2 green leaves onto the yarn needle in opposite directions.

Pull the needle and yarn up through the back. Push the yarn needle through all 3 leaves and up through the front.
Your leaves and first layer of petals are now joined.

Add the 4 remaining large petals using the needle and the red thread that should still be threaded on the needle.
Do this by pushing the needle through one end and pulling it down to the rest of the flower in the position you desire.

Take your yarn needle and work through all the petals and leaves that have been added from front to back.

Now do the same from back to front.

To add the 4 medium petals, do the same as you did with the last 4 large petals. Use the needle to push through the ends and onto the flower in the appropriate places.

Repeat this same process for the 4 small petals.

With your needle, go back through the edges of every petal and leaf you have added through the bottom center. Go back from the back to the front doing the same.
Adjust the leaves and petals as needed.

With your needle, go back through the center from front to back.
Cut your yarn and tie it in the back.
Change the color of your yarn in the needle to yellow using the tail from your center piece.

Place the yellow centerpiece on the middle of your poinsettia. Push the needle through one place on the center, down, and through the back of the flower.

You will want to repeat this process three or four times to attach the center and secure the entire piece. Keep adjusting the petals and leaves as needed while you go.
Tie off and your flower is complete.