Jeans Jacket with Crocheted Flowers and Leaves

Here’s a project that uses the free Frilly Target Flower pattern from the last post plus the Scallop-Edge Leaf from Crochet Bouquet.

To make the flowers and leaves, I used Louet’s Euroflax Sport, a 100% linen yarn. Linen has a beautiful texture for knitting and crochet. You can use any yarn you want to decorate a jacket, though a smooth yarn will show the details of the crochet better.

You Will Need

  • 3 colors of fine weight (2) yarn. Coordinate leaf and petal colors as in photo or as desired.
  • Hook: 3.5mm/E-4, or size to give a firm gauge
  • Purchased jeans jacket
  • Sewing needle and matching thread
  • Pins

Instructions

  1. Crochet the large and medium versions of the Frilly Target Flowers (see the blog post just before this one), changing colors after each picot round as shown in photograph.
  2. Crochet two Scallop-Edge Leaves (pages 116-117 of Crochet Bouquet), needle-join Rnd 2, and then change color for the scallop round. Make a stem about eight chain stitches long.
  3. Make one long and one short stem for the flowers as follows: chain desired length, then sl st in each ch. Weave in all ends.
  4. Arrange the flowers, leaves, and stems on the jacket, using photograph as a guide. Pin and sew them in place.

The project shown here was created with Louet’s Euroflax Sport, 100% Wet Spun Linen, 3.5oz/100g = 270yd/247m per skein.