Oriental Lily Flower by Liz Shafer

Oriental Lily Flower

Crochet
March 2023
all 3 are used in this pattern
Aran (8 wpi) ?
8 stitches and 8 rows = 2 inches
in single crochet
3.5 mm (E)
Makes a 12" long flower
US
English
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Crocheted Oriental Lily flower.

The yarns I used for the flower were “Rich Orchid” from Loops & Threads Impeccable; “Rose” from Caron One Pound; “Baby Pink” from Red Heart Super Saver; and “White” from Red Heart Super Saver; I also used “Cornmeal” from Red Heart Super Saver, and “Gold” from Loops & threads Impeccable, for the stigma and stamens; and “Spring Green” from Red Heart Super Saver, for the leaves and stem.
An optional step is to add the speckles to the lighter pink portions of the flower. To do this, I used some DMC Pearl Cotton Embroidery Thread in the color 718, which perfectly matched the Rich Orchid pink yarn.

I made the flowers using worsted weight yarn in the video tutorial. But I actually think the best way to make flowers like this, so that the petals look light and delicate, is to make them either with fine weight yarn, or with split apart worsted or aran weight yarn. They are kind of ridiculously huge and bulky in worsted weight, I would have tried using a finer weight yarn, but they just don’t have that many in stores anymore, except in super pastel baby colors. Which could work for certain flowers, but I think they look better with a bright, vibrant color, and you can only really reliably find colors like that in either worsted or aran weight. So I prefer to make them with split apart yarns. In the video, I show you how to make them out of the worsted weight yarn, because it’s a little easier to see what I’m doing. But if you want that pretty, light, delicate petals look, I suggest either using finer weight yarn, or using split apart worsted or aran weight yarn, for the flower. The last 2 pictures are of the flower made in the aran weight yarn, and you can see that it’s much more bulky than the first 3 pictures of the one made with the split apart yarn.
For the leaves, though, I just used the aran weight yarn as it was.

A free video tutorial is available at the link.