Flower Headband - Free Crochet Pattern

One of my daughters wanted me to crochet her a headband with a flower - and it had to be a buttercup! No pressure! LOL This is what I came up with. Not bad for my first attempt. I may try to tweak it later, just to make the part that goes under the hair a little thinner. Let me know what you think. 

BUTTERCUP FLOWER HEADBAND

FREE CROCHET PATTERN

Supplies:

Sugar & Cream Cotton yarn - 1 skein "Aloe"
Sugar & Cream Cotton yarn - 1 skein "Vanilla Bouquet"
Size "I" crochet hook
1/2" Soft Stretch Elastic

Headband
Cut elastic to 20.5". Measure around head and sew to make a ring. (You can easily make this adult size by adding anothe 2" to the elastic. You will also need to add extra stitches to the pattern (which is very easy to do).

With green yarn:
Attach yarn, to elastic, with sc, (ch1, sc around elastic), repeat 65 times, ch1.
Flip headband around (turn, keeping the stitches you just crocheted on top). You will now be crocheting back around the opposite direction.
Sc in ch1 space, (ch1, sc in next ch1 space), repeat around to beginning. Fasten off.

Flower

With yellow:
ch5, join with a slip stitch to form a ring.

Round 1: ch1, 10 sc in ring, join with slip stitch to 1st sc. (do not turn)
Round 2: ch3, (2dc, ch3, slip stitch) in same stitch, skip next sc, *(slip stitch, ch3, 2dc, ch3, slip stitch) in next sc, skip next sc, repeat from * 3 more times, join with slip stitch to beg sl stitch. (5 petals)

I tied flower to headband with the yarn ends.

Happy Crocheting!

Source: http://kristine-creativecrochet.blogspot.com/2010/08/flower-headband-free-crochet-pattern.html

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Wordless Wednesday - Gazania

For more wordlessness, check out Gabriel's blog and the WW hub.

Source: http://bunny-trails.blogspot.com/2010/08/wordless-wednesday-gazania.html

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Little Yellow Flowers (Item Code #0130)

Source: http://jenericphoto.blogspot.com/2010/08/little-yellow-flowers-item-code-0130.html

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The Biological Description of Croton Elyuteriya

Kaskarolla or Croton elyuteriya (genus Croton eluteria) - Euphorbiaceae plant family, species of the genus Croton, native to the Bahamas and Cuba. Naturalized in other tropical regions of America.

Biological description

This is - a small tree up to 6 m with white fragrant flowers. Bark is also very aromatic and often covered with lichen.

Chemical composition

The bark contains 1-3% essential oils are a complex mixture of terpenes and diterpenov. It is composed of pinene, vanilla, d-limonene, tuyen, eugenol and other components. In addition to essential oils in the bark also contains resin, tannin and lignin.

Use

Bark is used as spicy-aromatic. She added as an aromatic bitterness in various liqueurs, especially in the vermouth and Campari. It's also used to flavor snuff and medicinal purposes.

Source: http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B0

See Also: International Flower Delivery, Florist, Flowers Discount Code

Source: http://adelinegarden.blogspot.com/2010/08/biological-description-of-croton.html

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A Zamia Integrifolia Genus

Keják celolistý (Zamia integrifolia, son. Zamia floridana) is a plant genus kejákovitých (Zamiaceae) from the class of cycads.

It is widespread in the Caribbean and southern United States. Belongs to the genus Zamia, in which the total of 53 species of plants belonging to the evolutionarily oldest plants in the world.

This species belongs to the very broadly described cykasům and its variants are very diverse and difficult to distinguish. Above all shapes tickets are extremely diverse. Some authors of this type are earmarked as a variant of the Florida Zamia floridana.

This name, however, is not formally recognized. Plant as Zamia floridana sometimes appears on the market, a more accurate name is Zamia integrifolia var. floridana. In the past, in this species is now classified as separate species keják minor who is less regular tickets.

Etymology

The word "Zamia" is derived from the Greek word for cone.

Czech name "keják" is derived from the word denotes a rod and cone on the stem. Was first used by JS Presl in 1846.

Also, the generic name comes from the Czech JS Presl and Latin translation of the name. Keják celolistý was named in 1848 in a publication Počátkowé rostlinoslowí and, like the Latin name is not entirely accurate.

The word "celolistý" indicates massive edge and leaves the plant differs from species keják retail, which was previously classified into the same kind.

Toxicity

Like most cycads, and other house plants are poisonous and keják celolistý - cycads poisoning can cause kidney failure, liver and nervous disorders. Most toxic plant parts are seeds inside the "stoning". Seed formation in normal housing conditions is impossible without artificial pollination.

The plant was in the U.S. used to produce starch and the Indians soon after the industry, which led her among the protected species.

Protection

Keják celolistý according to the IUCN Red list rank among the endangered species. It is also included in the list of endangered species, CITES Appendix II to the category of vulnerable plants. Trade in them is controlled, the seeds are not so.

Source: http://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zamia_integrifolia

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Source: http://charmingflowers.blogspot.com/2010/08/zamia-integrifolia-genus.html

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About the Chemical Composition

Kaskarolla or Croton elyuteriya (genus Croton eluteria) - Euphorbiaceae plant family, species of the genus Croton, native to the Bahamas and Cuba. Naturalized in other tropical regions of America.

Biological description

This is - a small tree up to 6 m with white fragrant flowers. Bark is also very aromatic and often covered with lichen.

Chemical composition

The bark contains 1-3% essential oils are a complex mixture of terpenes and diterpenov. It is composed of pinene, vanilla, d-limonene, tuyen, eugenol and other components. In addition to essential oils in the bark also contains resin, tannin and lignin.

Use

Bark is used as spicy-aromatic. She added as an aromatic bitterness in various liqueurs, especially in the vermouth and Campari. It's also used to flavor snuff and medicinal purposes.

Source: http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B0

See Also: International Flower Delivery, Florist, Flowers Discount Code

Source: http://justinjesseflowers.blogspot.com/2010/08/about-chemical-composition.html

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The Medical Use of the Plant

Kaskarolla or Croton elyuteriya (genus Croton eluteria) - Euphorbiaceae plant family, species of the genus Croton, native to the Bahamas and Cuba. Naturalized in other tropical regions of America.

Biological description

This is - a small tree up to 6 m with white fragrant flowers. Bark is also very aromatic and often covered with lichen.

Chemical composition

The bark contains 1-3% essential oils are a complex mixture of terpenes and diterpenov. It is composed of pinene, vanilla, d-limonene, tuyen, eugenol and other components. In addition to essential oils in the bark also contains resin, tannin and lignin.

Use

Bark is used as spicy-aromatic. She added as an aromatic bitterness in various liqueurs, especially in the vermouth and Campari. It's also used to flavor snuff and medicinal purposes.

Source: http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B0

See Also: International Flower Delivery, Florist, Flowers Discount Code

Source: http://amazingsense.blogspot.com/2010/08/medical-use-of-plant.html

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The Dissemination of the Flower

The Yellow Trumpet Flower (Tecoma stans), sometimes called yellow or yellow trumpet tree trumpet vine called, is a plant of the family of the catalpa family (Bignoniaceae).

Dissemination

The home of the Yellow trumpet flower ranges from Mexico to Peru. Today it is grown as an ornamental plant throughout the tropics.

Description

Yellow trumpet flower grows an evergreen shrub or small tree, height and reach 6-9 meters. The opposite leaves are pinnate, with 3-13 sawed, 80-10 cm long leaflets.

The golden-yellow blooms are in clusters at the branch ends, bell-funnel-shaped, five-lobed (where weak double lip), in the throat often reddish veined and 3.5 to 8.5 cm long.

The fruits are shown in two carpels and are up to 25 cm long, narrow capsules.

Extras

Yellow trumpet flower is in the tropical coastal regions of Australia and Polynesia, where proven, particularly in north Queensland, as an invasive species spread and strong.

Source: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gelbe_Trompetenblume

See Also: idul fitri, hamper hari raya, hari raya hampers

Source: http://jessicaflorist.blogspot.com/2010/08/dissemination-of-flower.html

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