Let’s make a decorative sunflower pillow pattern, the sunflower with its vibrant colors and beautiful design, brings joy and positivity to your craft space and makes your room of sofa much decorative and comfortable.
This pattern is perfect for adding a bright, cheerful touch to home décor. It makes a great statement piece for sofas or beds.
You can customize this pattern by using different yarn weights with suitable hooks to make it bigger or smaller.
These written instructions include everything you need to finish this beautiful pillow. They include materials, abbreviations, special stitch instructions, instructions for joining pieces together, and two options for assembling the pillow.
Designer: Foufi’s crochet
Materials & Tools
- Coffee brown blanket yarn (600 g)
- Turmeric yellow blanket yarn (150 g)
- 5 mm crochet hook
- 12 mm crochet hook
- Stuffing
- Yarn needle
- Scissors
- Stitch marker
Abbreviations
sc – single crochet
mr – magic ring
inc – increase
FO – fasten off
sl st – slip stitch
st/sts – stitch(es)
ch – chain
dc – double croche
dc inc – double crochet increase
hdc inc – half double crochet increase
Picot stitch:
- ch 2
- sl st in the back loop of the first chain
The Seeds x2
Use brown yarn.
Rnd 1: 10 sc in Mr (10)
Rnd 2: inc x 10 (20)
Rnd 3: (sc, inc) x 10 (30)
Rnd 4: (sc, inc, sc) x 10 (40)
Rnd 5: (3 sc, inc) x 10 (50)
Rnd 6: (2 sc, inc, 2 sc) x 10 (60)
Rnd 7: (5 sc, inc) x 10 (70)
Rnd 8: (3 sc, inc, 3 sc) x 10 (80)
Rnd 9: (7 sc, inc) x 10 (90)
Rnd 10: (4 sc, inc, 4 sc) x 10 (100)
Rnd 11: (9 sc, inc) x 10 (110)
Rnd 12: (5 sc, inc, 5 sc) x 10 (120)
Rnd 13: (11 sc, inc) x 10 (130)
Rnd 14: (6 sc, inc, 6 sc) x 10 (140)
Rnd 15: (13 sc. inc) x 10 (150)
Fasten off the first piece, for second piece continue on step 2.
Before joining the pieces together. You need to decide between two stuffing options:
Option A: simply stuffing your pillow and closing it.
Option B: leaving an opening in order to wash the pillow easily (you have to create/sew a removable pocket that you stuff) (in order to keep the opening close. Few buttons are sewn on).
Joining the Pieces + the Petals
Join the tw pieces togehter:
Rnd 16: 125 sc around through both pieces, 25 sc on one piece (you don’t work in the 25 stitches of the other piece to leave the opening. If you don’t want to leave the opening, if you don’t want to leave the opening, stuff firmly and do the last 2 sc through both pieces to close the pillow) (150)
Change yarn to Yellow.
For a neather color change: sl st in the first st of R16.
Rnd 17: ch 2, 6 dc, dc inc, (14 dc, dc inc) x 9, 7 dc, sl st in the chain (160)
Change to your 12 mm hook, the change of hook is very importan as it gives a natural movement and texture to the petals.
Rnd 18: (sl st, skip 2 sts, 5 dc in 1 st, skip 2 sts, 2 sl st) x 20 (160)
Rnd 19: (skip 1 st, hdc inc, dc inc, (in the same stitch: dc, picot, dc), dc inc, hdc inc, skip 1 st, sl st) x 20
Fasten off, weave in the ends.
Sewing the Buttons
Use minimum 3 buttons.
- On the petal piece: place the buttons to and equal distance from one another.
- Sew them on.
The remainig stitches of the opposite piece are used as loops to tie the buttons.
Make Stuffing Pocket
The use of a sewing machine is recommended but not mandatory. There are diverse ways of making the stuffing pocet, here are two methods:
Use Old T-shirt.
- Sew through both sides of the t-shirt in a round shape to the size of the pillow (brown part) but leave a few-inch opening
- Turn the newly created pocet inside out
- Stuff the pocket firmly
- Sew the opening closed
- Put the pocket inside the pillow
Use a Waterproof Mattress Sheet
- Cut two circles to the size of the pillow (brown part) in the sheet
- Sew both outsides together but leae a few-icnh opening
- Turn the newly created pocket inside out
- Stuff the pocket firmly
- Sew the opening closed
- Put the pocket inside the pillow
Now remove the stuffing pocket whenever it is needed for cleaning.
