🌻 This free sunflower hair pin pattern creates a beautiful, cheerful accessory that brightens any hairstyle. The simple crochet design works up quickly and makes a perfect handmade gift or addition to your own accessories collection. The finished sunflower measures approximately 2 inches across, making it an ideal size for a hair pin, brooch, or decorative element.
Key Takeaways
- 🧶 Quick project that uses minimal yarn
- 🎁 Versatile accessory for hair or clothing
- 💝 Perfect gift idea for sunflower lovers
- 🌱 Beginner-friendly pattern with basic stitches
Use Ideas
🌻 Hair Accessory: Attach the sunflower to a hair clip, bobby pin, or headband for a cheerful hair accent.
🌻 Brooch or Pin: Add a pin backing to wear your sunflower on clothing, bags, or hats.
🌻 Gift Topper: Use smaller versions as beautiful gift package decorations.
🌻 Garland: Make several sunflowers and string them together for a bright summer garland.
🌻 Bouquet: Create a bunch of sunflower pins for a lasting bouquet that never wilts!
🌻 Wedding Favors: Make tiny versions as sweet keepsakes for wedding guests.
Have you thought about making a matching set of accessories? A sunflower necklace or earrings would pair beautifully with your hair pin!
Materials&Tools
- Yarn
- 2.25mm Hook(What I used in this pattern)
- Yarn Needle
- Glue (To connect the parts, you can also sew with yarn)
- Hair clips(5 cm)
- Felt pieces
Abbreviation
- ch – chain
- sc – single crochet
- inc – increase (2 single crochets in one stitch)
- dec – decrease (merge 2 single crochets into 1)
- hdc – half double crochet
- dc – double crochet
- sl st – slip stitch
- magic ring – adjustable ring to start crocheting in the round
How to Read Pattern?
- R5: ch, [1 sc, sc inc] x 6, sl st
In Round 5, start with a chain stitch, then repeat the pattern “1 single crochet, single scrochet increase” 6 times. End with a slip stitch.
- (sc+sc+sc)
Parentheses ( ) indicate that all stitches within them are worked into the same stitch. So ‘(sc+sc+sc)’ means working 3 single crochet stitches all into the same stitch.
Pattern Info
Flower Center (Brown)
- Start with magic ring
- R1: 6 sc
- R2: 6 inc
Petals (Yellow)
- R3: 2 ch, 2 incomplete hdc then yarn over, pull through all loops,2 ch, sl st, Repeat 12 times
Base (Green)
- R1: 15 ch
- R2: dc inc into 3rd chain from the hook, 7 dc, 3 hdc, (sl st+ch+sl st), sc, 3 hdc, 7 dc, (dc+dc+dc)
- R3: 2 inc,11 sc, sl st, ch, sl st, 11 sc, 3 inc
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