Crochet you very own Moon Cactus (Grafted Gymnocalcyium Cultivar) plant. Brighten up a drab corner of your room or office, or make a quick, easy housewarming gift for a friend. If you like, you can create a clustered arrangement by combining the Moon Cactus with other crocheted plant patterns such as my String of Pearls and Hen & Chicks patterns. Or make a row of cacti in neon bright colors such as pink, red, orange, yellow and purple. The finished height is 7 inches/15 cm.

The crocheted pot is designed to be the size, shape, and color as a real terracotta pot. The finished pot height is 2.5 inches/7 cm. I designed the soil base to be removable--like a chocolate cupcake--rather than a circle sewn to the top of the pot. This soil insert gives the pot firm, straight sides and a flat base rather than bulging. If you prefer to house your crocheted plant in a clay pot, use my pattern to crochet a soil base to fit inside a standard 3” inch pot. If you want to crochet different colored pots, you can pull the crocheted plant and soil out of the pot and transplant it into a new crocheted pot!

Pattern includes instructions for the following:

1. Pot, 2.5”/7 cm
2. Soil Base, 2.25”/6 cm
3. Moon Cactus Top, 1”/3 cm tall, 2”/5 cm wide
4. Moon Cactus Stalk, 3.25”/8 cm tall

Pattern also includes:
-- Definitions of stitch abbreviations
-- Materials list, including recommended yarn brands and colors and where to find materials
-- Lots of instructive color photos
-- Links to helpful online crochet tutorials

SUPPLIES NEEDED
-- Worsted weight yarn in orange, brown, green, and your choice of color for Moon
-- E/3.5 mm crochet hook
-- Polyester fiberfill
-- Large-headed pins
-- Scissors
-- Tapestry needle

SKILLS NEEDED
Pattern is for those with basic crochet skills and needle-work skills. Pattern is in US crochet terms. Stalk, Pots and Soil are made in spiral rounds. To make, you will need to know how to:
-- read a crochet pattern
-- chain
-- slip stitch
-- single crochet
-- single crochet decrease or invisible decrease
-- double crochet

You may sell the plants you make with my pattern if you credit “JanaGeek on Ravelry.com” as the designer.