Easy crocheted flower

After seeing my Flower Fridge magnet, many people wanted to know how I made it. It is not that difficult at all. So here is a picture tutorial for crocheting a flower. See the flower has two rows of petals. I am assuming that you know the basic crochet stitches like single crochet, double crochet, triple crochet and slip stitch. First of all make chain 3 and slip stitch to the first chain to form a ring. Now make 12 single crochet on the ring. Slip stitch to the first single crochet.

Since the center of the flower is finished we are starting to work on the petals. Make 3 chains, skip the next stitch and single crochet on the next single crochet. Look on the picture below to see how it is made.

Repeat the same 5 more times. Did you get it like this one in the following picture?

We are going to work on the 3 chain loops now. Make i single crochet, 1 double crochet, 1 triple crochet, 1 double crochet and 1 single crochet on the chain 3 loop.

Repeat to 5 more times and you have six petals, like in the picture showed below.

Now we are going to create the second layer of the petals. First make a single crochet between the first and last single crochet in the just finished row. I have a picture for you.

Make 4 chains like in the picture,

Here is the tricky part. you need to join to the single crochet you made when you were creating the chain 3 loops. It should be done behind the petals we made.Confused? Look on the picture below.

Repeat 5 more times . Want to see how it looks like when you look from underneath?

So far so good. Right? Now create the petals. The pattern is 1 single crochet 1 double crochet 2 triple crochet, 1 double crochet and 1 more single crochet.It will look like this.

Repeat for the remaining 5 petals. See, you are finished the flower!!!