Here’s a design inspired by blue and white Zwiebelmuster chinaware. You can crochet the berries, or use buttons for berries.
Materials and Tools
2 colors of yarn of similar weight: dark and light leaf colors (A and B), berry color (C)
Hook: Appropriate size hook to achieve a firm gauge with selected yarn
Tapestry needle
Special Abbreviations
Join-dc: find the dc on the previous leaf that is opposite of the dc you are about to make. In this pattern the dcs that you will join to are shown in brackets [ ] to help you identify them. With the yarn in front of the hook, insert hook into the back loop of the dc. With this new loop on the hook, yoh (yarn over hook), insert hook into next st, pull up a lp, yoh, pull through 2 lps, yoh, pull through 3 lps—join-dc is complete.
Essentially, you started with an extra loop on your hook before you made a dc. The last yoh was pulled through 3 lps, instead of the normal 2 lps.
Pattern Note:
After making this pattern once or twice, you will understand how it works, and you can repeat more or fewer times between *s to make your leafy spray longer or shorter. Brackets [] are used as markers in this pattern. Ignore them until you get to the join-dcs.
Instructions
Leaf Spray:
Rnd 1: With A, (ch 9, sc in 4th ch from hook, 5 sc, ch 4 for stem) 3 times.
At the top of the spray, (ch 9, sc in 4th ch from hook, 5 sc) 3 times.
Working down the opposite side of the spray, (sl st in each of the 4 stem ch-sts, ch 9, sc in 4th ch from hook, 5 sc) 3 times.
For lower stem, ch 12, sl st in 3rd ch from hook, sl st in each rem ch-st, cut thread and needle-join to the free loop of the 1st ch-st of rnd (it is at the base of the 1st leaf). Weave in ends.
Rnd 2: Join B in 1st ch-st of Rnd 1 (at the base of the 1st leaf) with a
* sl st, working along the free loops of the original ch-sts, sc, hdc, 3 dc, (3 dc, slst-picot, 3 dc) in the ch-3 lp; continuing along the tops of the sc-sts, [3 dc], hdc, sc, sl st.
(Sl st in ea of the 4 ch-sts of stem, sl st in 1st st of next leaf, sc, hdc, 3 join-dc, (3 dc, slst-picot, 3 dc), [3 dc], hdc, sc, sl st.) 3 times. *
The top leaf is not attached to the previous leaf: sl st, sc, hdc, 3 dc, (3 dc, slst-picot, 3 dc), 3 dc, hdc, sc, sl st.
Repeat bet the *s once more.
Stem: Sl st in each ch to the end of the stem, and then sl st in each sl st back up the stem, cut thread and needle-join to 1st st of rnd.
Berries:
Make one for each leaf pair.
With C, ch 4, join with a sl st in 1st ch to form a ring.
Rnd 1: ch 1, 8 sc into ring, leaving enough yarn to sew the berry onto the spray, cut yarn, and needle-join to 1st st of rnd.
Finishing:
Weave in all ends except the sewing ends. Sew a berry (or button) at each intersection of the stem and a leaf pair. Weave in sewing ends. Block.
