2009-07-20 How about some thread crochet leaves?

Remember the crocheted flowers I have been making?

Here are the links to the samples if you need them:
One Stamp Wedding Card
Thread Crochet flowers on a CAS card
and
Thread Crochet flower embellishments

Well over the weekend I created a leaf to go with the thread crocheted flower.

I of course only had cream crochet thread with me. I saw olive green in the store but put it back down on the shelf when I realized that my husband would give me “the look” if I bought ANOTHER craft supply. So this morning I decided to dye the cream leaf to mellow moss.

I put 10 drops of mellow moss reinker into a mini spray bottle and gave the leaf a couple of sprays to see if the dye would take…it did! Here you see it on my craft sheet.

DO YOU KNOW WHAT THIS MEANS? To make any color of flower or leaf to be an exact color match, I only need to have white or cream thread; a reinker in the appropriate color and a mini spray bottle!

Every one yell ah-ha! right now lol!

Here are my made up directions to make a leaf in a size to match the flowers you’ve seen me share in previous posts. If you do make some, be sure to link back to this post so I can see them!

LEAF
white or cream crochet thread and #2 metal crochet hook

Chain 13
in this order in each stitch: sc 1; half double; half double; double; double; tripple; tripple; tripple; double; double; half double; half double.

In same stitch as the last half double; sc to turn.
Again, in same stitch, half double; continue as normal: half double; double; double; tripple; tripple; tripple; double; double; half double; half double; single and slip stitch to end.

After completing; weave in any lose threads and snip off excess.
Spray with dye reinker mixture to be an exact color match to you project!