how to crochet a simple flower | no magic ring 🌸 easy crochet tutorial for BEGINNERS

Today we're going to be learning how to make these super cute, quick, and easy flowers. This is a great project for beginners, especially if you have not yet learned the magic ring. We will not need it for this tutorial. Each one of these flowers only takes a few minutes to make, and I will be working through each stitch with you as we use it. And if you'd like to increase or decrease the size of your flower, you're just going to increase or decrease the size of your hook and or your yarn. And for this project you're going to need some worsted weight 4 yarn, a 4mm hook, and a pair of scissors. And we can get started. Okay, to get started we need to make our slip knot. So we're going to wrap the yarn around our finger and across. I'm going to pinch the yarn tail with my thumb, and then with the pointer finger on my opposite hand, I'm putting it under that first piece of yarn and over the second, and I'm going to flip that up and pull it tight. Okay, let's do that one more time. Wrap the yarn around your finger and across, pinch the yarn tail, put your pointer finger under that first piece of yarn and over the second, then just flip it up and pull it tight. So now we can insert our hook and pull that tight, and now we can start making our chain. To get started with our chain, we need to hold our yarn, and then yarn over, and then pull that through the loop to make one chain. We need a total of 6 chains, which is going to act as our magic ring. So let's chain 5 more. Yarn over and pull through the loop. That's 3 chains. Let's do 3 more, just like that. So now we need to connect each end of our chain to form a little ring. So when you do this, you want to make sure that you are not twisting your chain, and we want to go into this loop at the end of our chain right here, and we want to connect the last chain with the first chain, so I'm inserting the hook into that top loop there, and then I'm going to make a slip stitch by yarning over, and then we're going to pull through both of those loops on the hook, and then just pull that tight, and you can see that we've formed a little ring, and it is not twisted. If yours is twisted, just try again, that's okay. And I'm also going to trim this yarn tail so it's not in our way. Okay, now we need to chain 4. We're going to make our first petal, and when we work, we're going to be working around this chain, not into it, but around into the middle. So let's chain 4 by yarning over and pulling through that loop, 1, 2, 3, and 4. Now we need to make 3 triple crochets into our ring here. To triple crochet, let's yarn over twice, insert the hook into that middle ring, yarn over and pull up a loop. You should have 4 loops on your hook. Yarn over and pull through 2. Yarn over and pull through 2 more, and that is 1 triple crochet. So we need 2 more of those, and as I work, I'm going to kind of move my stitches down towards the first chain that I made. Okay, let's make our next triple crochet by yarning over twice. Insert the hook into the ring, yarn over and pull up a loop. Yarn over and pull through 2. Yarn over and pull through 2 more. Yarn over and pull through the last 2. And again, I'm just scooting that down, and let's make our very last triple crochet for this petal, just like that. Now I'm going to chain 4, 1, 2, 3, and 4, and we're going to slip stitch into the ring, and that completes our first petal. So we want 5 petals in total, so we're going to be repeating this all the way around until we have 5 total. And as you work, you're just going to want to keep scooting your stitches down towards the first chain that you made so you have enough room. So let's do another one together. Chain 4, triple crochet 3, again just working into the middle of that ring around the chain that we made. Okay, we're going to chain 4 again, and slip stitch into our ring. That completes our second petal. I'm going to scoot that down so I can continue working into the ring, and I will meet you back here when I have all 5 petals completed. Now you may finish your 4th petal and feel like you don't have enough room on your ring to make the 5th petal, but that's okay. We're just going to keep scooting those stitches down as much as we can so we can make room for that 5th petal, and they're almost going to overlap a little bit because the stitches are so close to one another, but that's what we want. So don't worry about it, just keep going, and I will meet you back when I finish this last petal. Okay, now that I have finished my flower, I ended on the very last slip stitch after that chain 4 on the last petal. I'm going to chain 1, and I'm going to cut my yarn. I'm leaving a little bit of a yarn tail here so we can tie it together in the back. Then just pull your yarn up through that chain that we made and pull it tight. Okay, then I'm going to find the yarn tail in the back, and I'm also going to pull that tight. Then I like to tie these 2 yarn tails together to secure them, just like that, and you can weave these in any way you like. I'm just going to trim mine for now, and you are done with your flower. I really hope that you enjoyed this tutorial. If you did, be sure to subscribe for the next video, and if you have any ideas or requests on crochet tutorials, whatever you'd like to see next, be sure to let me know in the comments, and I will see you guys next time.