DIY : How to Fold Crochet Washcloths into Flowers

The Yarn Hag Ryan
5 min readJul 25, 2020

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Hi, I am Ryan!

I am a Yarn lover like you and I have been crocheting and loving yarn for over 15 years.

I am a Youtuber and blogger who loves to share her yarn experience with you.

I am putting together this DIY blog on “how to fold crochet washcloths into flowers.”

So, let’s get started!

Things that you need:

  1. 3–5 Crochet Cotton Rounds.
  2. 2–3 Square washcloths in green(preferred).
  3. 3–4 colorful washcloths.
  4. Medium size bowl/basket.
  5. A handful of rubber bands.

Now, let us look at the steps:

Step1: Put your green square washcloths on a flat surface:

DIY: How to Fold Crochet Washcloths into Flowers

Now, pick it from the edges and put all of them together at the center:

DIY: How to Fold Crochet Washcloths into Flowers

Step2: Now, flip the washcloth upside down:

DIY: How to Fold Crochet Washcloths into Flowers

Again pick it from the edges and, put them all together:

DIY: How to Fold Crochet Washcloths into Flowers

Step3: Take the rubber bands:

DIY: How to Fold Crochet Washcloths into Flowers

Put them horizontally and vertically across the washcloth:

DIY: How to Fold Crochet Washcloths into Flowers

Step 4: Pick the washcloth from the other end and make it like a leaf, as shown below:

DIY: How to Fold Crochet Washcloths into Flowers

Step 5: Repeat step 1, 2 3, and 4 with the other wash clothes and place them on your bowl, as shown below:

DIY: How to Fold Crochet Washcloths into Flowers

Now we need to make our flowers and, there are a couple of ways to do this let me show you.

Step 6: Take two different colored cotton round and fold them together, as shown below:

DIY: How to Fold Crochet Washcloths into Flowers

Also, take a rubber band and put it at the end, so that the flower stays in shape:

DIY: How to Fold Crochet Washcloths into Flowers

And, here’s your first flower:

DIY: How to Fold Crochet Washcloths into Flowers

Step7: The second way to fold these in half:

DIY: How to Fold Crochet Washcloths into Flowers

Now, start rolling them on one another and, it will give you a bud as shown below:

DIY: How to Fold Crochet Washcloths into Flowers

Step 8: One more simple way is to have just folded a cotton round back and forth, put a rubber band to create a flower:

DIY: How to Fold Crochet Washcloths into Flowers

Step 9: Another way to create a flower is to take different color washcloths and, place them on one another:

DIY: How to Fold Crochet Washcloths into Flowers

Now, poke them from the bottom with your finger and grabbing from the bottom:

DIY: How to Fold Crochet Washcloths into Flowers

After this you will have a knot at the bottom and put a rubber band:

DIY: How to Fold Crochet Washcloths into Flowers

Here’s another flower:

DIY: How to Fold Crochet Washcloths into Flowers

Step 10: Take a colorful washcloth and put it on a flat surface:

DIY: How to Fold Crochet Washcloths into Flowers

Now, fold it like a triangle, but do not go all way, just leave some for a lift:

DIY: How to Fold Crochet Washcloths into Flowers

Step11: Start rolling your triangle, until it reaches the middle point:

DIY: How to Fold Crochet Washcloths into Flowers

When it reaches the middle point, then push it back :

DIY: How to Fold Crochet Washcloths into Flowers

Start rolling gain:

DIY: How to Fold Crochet Washcloths into Flowers

This will give you a rose and put a rubber band at the bottom to keep it in shape:

DIY: How to Fold Crochet Washcloths into Flowers

Now, you can try these steps to create as many rose flowers as you want, depending on the size of your bowl or basket.

Step12: Put down your leaves in a bowl, as shown below:

DIY: How to Fold Crochet Washcloths into Flowers

Start placing all your flowers into the bowl:

DIY: How to Fold Crochet Washcloths into Flowers

Step 13: There you have it! Your yarn flower bowl is ready:

DIY: How to Fold Crochet Washcloths into Flowers

I hope this helped you make a quick and easy guide to make flowers with crochet washcloths.

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