Crochet a Mother’s Day Card

You still have time to give your mother a hand-made card for Mother’s Day!

Page 129 of Crochet Bouquet gives general directions for making greeting cards with crocheted flowers.

Mostly you need to choose a flat flower or leaf, and use a fine thread to make it. Find blank cards and matching envelopes at craft stores.

For the card shown here, I used

• Aunt Lydia’s No. 10 crochet cotton in violet, golden yellow, shaded violets, wasabi green
• size 4 (US) steel crochet hook
• blank card and envelope (I bought extra in case of mistakes)
• rubber stamp with “Thank You” or other message that you like
• stamp pad with gold ink
  1. Practice stamping on some scratch paper until you get the feel of the stamp and ink. When you’re confident, stamp the blank card.
  2. Crochet the Plain Pansy (pp. 63-64 of Crochet Bouquet) and the Spiky Leaf (pp. 121-122). Make a chain the desired length for a stem, turn, skip one ch st, slip stitch in each stitch of the chain.
  3. Weave in the thread ends and press flower and leaf if necessary.
  4. Arrange flower, stem, and leaf on card. When you are pleased with the arrangement, glue them to the card, following the directions on page 129.