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- Another wonderful variation to the flower cuff

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is this statement necklace.

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And the way you make this necklace is by crocheting

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three five-petal flowers, one in pink, one in yellow,

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and one in cream.

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And you also create two small circles,

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one in green and one in pink.

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Once you crochet the flowers and the rings,

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you'll want to arrange them in a way that you like.

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The way I've arranged mine is like this.

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I think the flowers fit in a way that's very cute

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and the rings also fit nicely.

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Now, one tip about crocheting these elements

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for the necklace is to not weave in the tails

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after you crochet each element

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because we will use the tails to join the elements together.

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So let's do that right now by placing one of the tails

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to the pink flower into a tapestry needle

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and then joining the flower to the yellow flower.

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Let's see, so we turn this around and stitch them together.

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And you know, this is also an intuitive process.

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You'll get a sense of where the next stitch should go

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based on how the petals are fitting together.

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And so as you can see, I have worked up to this part

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of the two flowers and then I'm working back down

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to secure the other petals together.

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So when you feel like the flowers have joined together

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nicely like this, then you can weave that end back and forth

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and then take your scissors and trim ... oops.

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Trim that end.

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There, so we have the first two flowers connected.

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Now, let's see.

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I think that looks good.

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So we will place the tail of the cream flower

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into the tapestry needle and turn the work over

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and do the same thing.

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Intuitively ... make some decisions on

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where the stitches should go so that the flowers fit nicely.

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And as you are joining these flowers together,

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I would say there's maybe three or four or five stitches

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that you are making.

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I think I've made four here, one, two, three four.

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To join these flowers together.

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And when you are weaving in the tail,

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you want to make sure that you're not weaving it,

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weaving all the tails into one flower or one area

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so that it gets, because that would make it bulky

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in that one area.

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So you wanna try to spread out

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where you're weaving in the tail.

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So for example, this tail I will weave into

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this white flower, this cream colored flower.

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Back and forth.

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And then with my scissors, trim the end.

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Okay, now that the three flowers have been joined,

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it's time to join the two circles.

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I think I'm gonna start with the green circle.

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Place the tail of the green circle into the tapestry needle

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and then turn the work.

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Join the circle, I'm joining the circle first

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by placing the needle through the edge of

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one of the petals of the pink flower

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and then the edge of a petal of the yellow flower.

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And let's see, so it looks like I need another stitch

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to join the green circle to the yellow flower.

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And let's take a look and see how it looks over here.

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I feel like there needs to be one more stitch made

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to join the green circle to the pink flower,

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so I'm gonna go back and do that.

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And in order to go back and do that,

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you can tell that I need to work my way back

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to the pink flower because I've been working

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here at the yellow flower.

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So let's do that by weaving,

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kind of backtracking what we've done already,

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weaving back to the pink flower.

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And joining with another stitch.

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And maybe one more.

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It looks very nice.

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And so then we weave the tail back and forth

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and take the scissors and trim that end.

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And now we will join the pink circle to the white flower.

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Let's check it out.

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I think it looks pretty good.

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So, then I will weave in that tail like so

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and then trim that tail with scissors.

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And then there are two more tails

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that I'm gonna quickly weave in so that we can move on

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to adding the chain and the jump rings.

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Here's the final tail that we will weave in.

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We're almost finished.

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Trim the end.

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So the crocheted portion of the necklace is now complete.