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Buttons Earrings Pattern #2645
Crocheted button-covered earrings embroidered with French knots and lazy-daisy stitches. Originally published in Spool Cotton #191, Gift Shopping with Crochet.
Materials
- Steel crochet hook · No. 10
Pattern instructions
Earrings
Ch 2.
7 sc in 2nd ch from hook. Do not join rnds.
2 sc in each sc around.
* Sc in next sc, 2 sc in next sc. Repeat from * around (21 sts).
Continue thus, increasing 7 sts evenly on each rnd until surface of ½-inch button is covered.
Work 2 rnds straight. Slip button inside this piece. Then dec 7 sts evenly on each rnd until opening is closed—to dec, work off 2 sc as 1 sc. Sew onto earring base or cement onto an old earring.
Embroidery
Using full strand of one color of Six Strand, embroider French knot stitches (6 times around needle) closely around center; with remaining color, work lazy-daisy stitches all around French knots.
