Crochet flowering cacti

Crocheted artificial plants will be an excellent gift or decoration for your own home. They turn out to be especially necessary where live pets simply cannot grow - in shaded areas of the apartment, in the kitchen equipped with a loggia. Blooming cacti will bring a touch of good mood and a sunny day to any home.

What you need to take for two cacti:
-Green yarn (wool with acrylic) – 100 g.
-Hook No. 1,2.
- Yarn “Iris” in white, yellow, pink.
-Any brown yarn for soil.
-8 large yellow beads.
-4 small golden beads.
-Small pink beads or needles with beads.
-Toothpicks.
-Filler for cacti.
-Some foam for the potty.
-2 flower pots.
-2 sticks approximately 30 cm long.

How to tie cacti:

The base for both cacti is done the same way. A chain of six chain stitches is made and closed into a circle:

Crochet flowering cacti


The second row consists of twelve double crochets:

Crochet flowering cacti


The third row will have twenty-four columns, half in relief. This is done as follows: first, three air loops are cast on:

Crochet flowering cacti


Then the hook is inserted through the column of the previous row:

Crochet flowering cacti


And knit an ordinary double crochet:

Crochet flowering cacti


The next column is a regular one, then a relief column is made under its own base. This is what you should get:

Crochet flowering cacti


The third row needs to be knitted in the same way, increasing the number of loops. There should be forty-eight:

Crochet flowering cacti


The fourth row contains the same forty-eight loops. But now the front embossed loops alternate with the back ones. When making knit stitches, the hook goes under the column like this:

Crochet flowering cacti


In the case of reverse stitches, the tool is inserted from the reverse side of the fabric:

Crochet flowering cacti


As a result, the canvas resembles an elastic band:

Crochet flowering cacti


Completed fourth row:

Crochet flowering cacti



Crochet flowering cacti


In the fifth row, loops are added again, the total number increases to seventy:

Crochet flowering cacti


View from above:

Crochet flowering cacti


The next two rows do not contain any changes (they contain 70 columns):

Crochet flowering cacti


In the eighth row, it is necessary to reduce the number of loops by knitting two stitches together until the total number is reduced to sixty-three. The ninth row also has sixty-three columns. The tenth row is again a decrease to fifty-six. From the eleventh to the fifteenth row the number of loops does not change. In the sixteenth row of columns there will be forty-nine, in the seventeenth the same. That's it, the base for the cactus is ready:

Crochet flowering cacti


This is what it looks like inside:

Crochet flowering cacti


Now you can take the filler and thoroughly fill the body of the plant:

Crochet flowering cacti

Crochet flowering cacti


A rolled sheet of foam rubber is placed in the pot chosen for the cactus. In principle, you can take any other filler, even rolled paper:

Crochet flowering cacti


Any hard plastic stick, twig, or piece of branch is inserted into the center.

Crochet flowering cacti

Crochet flowering cacti


A circle of cardboard or thin foam rubber is placed on top, equal to the diameter of the pot:

Crochet flowering cacti

Crochet flowering cacti


This is what should come out:

Crochet flowering cacti


The next stage is making soil.To do this, you need to knit an even circle from brown yarn according to the pattern below:

Crochet flowering cacti


The soil is not attached to the pot in any way, it is simply carefully laid out on a layer of foam rubber.

Crochet flowering cacti


You can simply “pin” the cactus from above, but it’s better to sew it to the soil:

Crochet flowering cacti


This is what a flower in a pot looks like:

Crochet flowering cacti


The flowers of cacti will be different. For the first option you will need pink and white “Iris”. Each flower consists of two layers. The bottom one, pink, is performed according to the following scheme:

Crochet flowering cacti


Finished flower layer:

Crochet flowering cacti


Upper, white, slightly smaller in size:

Crochet flowering cacti



Crochet flowering cacti


This is what the almost finished flower will look like:

Crochet flowering cacti


All that remains is to decorate it with a pink bead:

Crochet flowering cacti


In total you will need eight of these flowers. They can be sewn to the cactus or attached using a needle with a bead at the end. For cactus needles you will need ordinary toothpicks:

Crochet flowering cacti


They are stuck into the first cactus in random order:

Crochet flowering cacti


The flowers for the second cactus are a little more complicated. They are also two-layer, knitted according to the following pattern:

Crochet flowering cacti


For the first flower, you should make two layers. The first is from white “Iris”, with five petals:

Crochet flowering cacti


The second is made of yellow thread, with three petals.

Crochet flowering cacti


The flowers are folded and decorated with yellow and golden beads:

Crochet flowering cacti


Finished item:

Crochet flowering cacti


For the second flower, the first layer must be knitted in exactly the same way as for a large flower:

Crochet flowering cacti


The second one is different, it is knitted according to the same pattern as the pink flowers, only for the petals, not eight air loops are cast on, but twelve:

Crochet flowering cacti


Only large beads will serve as decoration:

Crochet flowering cacti


Finished flowers are attached to the cactus using needles with balls:

Crochet flowering cacti

Crochet flowering cacti


This is what an interesting artificial flower looks like. All that remains is to supplement it with needles. Toothpicks are stuck in threes, forming clusters of needles:

Crochet flowering cacti

Crochet flowering cacti


That's it, the second cactus is ready:

Crochet flowering cacti


Crocheted flowering cacti turn out to be very elegant, original and interesting. If desired, you can change the shades of flowers or beads, adapting them to your interior.
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