Crochet Small Rose

Make a branching stem of small crochet roses with layered petals and green leaves. Each rose is formed by rolling one continuous seven-petal strip, then adding a five-point sepal cup underneath.

This free written tutorial covers the flower strip, sepal cup, wired leaf and assembly. For more flowers to make alongside your roses, browse our free crochet flower pattern collection.

Enjoy layered pink blooms? Try a larger botanical project with the Pink Peony C2C blanket PDF pattern, or explore our flower and botanical PDF collection. The paid C2C patterns are separate projects from the three-dimensional roses below.

Small Rose Colours and Bouquet Ideas

Use light and dark pink for a varied rose stem, or try yellow, orange, cream or another petal colour. Keep the yarn weight consistent across the flowers so their size and texture work together.

Arrange a few stems in a small vase, make a bunch of roses for a handmade gift, or combine them with larger flowers and greenery. These bouquet photographs provide colour and styling inspiration.

For a mixed bouquet, try our larger 3D rose pattern, crochet lily pattern or crochet baby’s breath pattern.

Choose Your Yarn

Smooth yarn makes the small stitches easier to see. Choose one or two petal colours and green for the sepal cups, leaves and stem wrapping. Use a hook that creates a firm but workable fabric, then make one flower to check the combination.

Materials

• Yarn in light pink, dark pink and green, or your preferred petal colours with green.
• A 2.5 mm crochet hook, adjusted if needed for your yarn and tension.
• A main flower rod approximately 40 cm long and 2 mm in diameter.
• Flexible craft wire approximately 0.5 mm in diameter for the flower branches and leaf edges.
• A stitch marker, tapestry needle, scissors and wire cutters.
• Hot glue for securing stem wrapping and attachments.

Parts for the Four-Flower Stem

The arrangement shown uses four rose strips, four sepal cups and four leaves. The flower instructions below make one rose; repeat them for each flower head. You can change the number of flowers and leaves to suit your arrangement.

Difficulty and Gauge

This is an intermediate project using basic crochet stitches, increases, working in rows and rounds, and crocheting over wire. Rolling and sewing the rose strips requires careful shaping.

No fixed gauge or finished size is specified. Yarn weight, hook size and tension affect the flower dimensions. Make one complete rose before preparing the rest of the stem.

Stitches and Abbreviations — US Crochet Terms

• ch: chain.
• sc: single crochet.
• hdc: half double crochet.
• dc: double crochet.
• ss: slip stitch.
• sk: skip.
• st / sts: stitch / stitches.
• R: round; the rose strip uses rows instead.

Pattern Notes

• The rose is worked as one continuous strip in two rows. Do not cut the seven petals apart.
• The sepal cup is worked in joined rounds and has five pointed extensions. One cup supports one rose.
• The leaf is worked around both sides of a foundation chain.
• Unless an increase is stated, work one stitch into each successive stitch or chain. “2 dc” means one dc in each of the next two stitches; “2 dc in the next st” means an increase.
• Starting ch 1 and joining slip stitches do not count in the sepal or leaf totals.
• When adding leaf wire, hold it along the edge and crochet over it. Leave wire tails at the base for attachment.

Free Crochet Small Rose Pattern

Sepal Cup — Make 1 per Rose

• R1: Start with a magic ring. Work 5 sc into the ring, close it and join with an ss to the first sc. [5]
• R2: Ch 1. Work 2 sc in each stitch around. Join with an ss to the first sc. [10]
• R3: Ch 1. Work 10 sc. Join with an ss to the first sc. [10]
• R4: Ch 5. Starting in the second chain from the hook, work 2 ss, 1 sc and 1 hdc down the chain. Skip the next stitch of the cup and ss into the following stitch to anchor the point. Repeat this complete sequence five times, using all 10 cup stitches. Ch 1 and fasten off, leaving a long tail. [5 sepal points]

This creates one cup with five points, rather than five separate sepal pieces. Repeat to make one cup for every rose head.

Rose Petal Strip — Make 1 per Rose

• Foundation: Using a petal colour, ch 23.
• Row 1: Starting in the fourth chain from the hook, work (3 dc in the same chain, 1 sc in the next chain, skip the next chain) six times. In the final two chains, work 3 dc in the first chain and 1 sc in the final chain. Do not add a final skip. Mark the final sc. [7 three-dc groups; 21 dc and 7 sc, plus the initial ch-3 end anchor]
• Row 2: Turn. Leave the marked final sc unworked. For each three-dc group, ch 2, work 1 dc in its first dc, 2 dc in its middle dc and 1 dc in its last dc; ch 2 and work 1 sc in the next separating sc. Repeat across all seven groups. For the final group, use the top of the initial ch-3 end anchor for the last sc. Work an ss into that same end anchor to finish. Fasten off, leaving a sewing tail at least 15 cm long. [7 connected petals]

One completed strip makes one rose. Repeat for the remaining flower heads, using your chosen colours.

Wired Leaf — Make as Needed

• Foundation: Using green yarn, ch 10.
• R1: Add wire. Starting in the second chain from the hook, work 1 sc, 1 hdc, 5 dc and 1 hdc across the next 8 chains. Work 3 sc in the final chain at the tip. Rotate the leaf and work along the opposite side: 1 hdc, 5 dc, 1 hdc and 1 sc across the 8 remaining chain positions. Join with an ss to the first sc. Fasten off, leaving a long tail and wire tails at the base. [19]

For the four-flower arrangement, make four leaves. Wrap each leaf’s wire tails with green yarn, keeping enough uncovered length at the bottom to bind them to the main stem.

Assemble the Small Rose Stem

Prepare all four petal strips, four sepal cups and four leaves before attaching the pieces to the main flower rod.

Roll and Secure Each Rose

1. Bend a small loop at the end of a flower-branch wire to provide an anchor inside the rose base.
2. Begin at one end of a complete petal strip. Roll the strip around the looped wire, keeping the foundation edge at the base and the shaped petal edges above it.
3. Continue rolling the connected petals around the centre, allowing the outer petals to open slightly.
4. Use the sewing tail to stitch through the bottom layers and around the wire anchor. Secure the entire rolled strip as one flower head.
5. Repeat for the remaining three strips. Add extra matching yarn for sewing if the original tail is too short.

Add One Sepal Cup to Each Rose

1. Pass the flower wire through the centre of a sepal cup and slide the cup up beneath the rose.
2. Position the five points around the underside of the flower. Sew the cup in place using its green tail; a small amount of glue can help secure the attachment.
3. Wrap the wire below the cup with green yarn, covering the join and any exposed wire.
4. Repeat for all four roses.

Build the Branching Stem

1. Attach one rose at the top of the main flower rod, binding its branch wire firmly with green yarn.
2. Add the other three roses at different heights along the rod. Angle the branches outward so the flower heads have space.
3. Attach the wired leaves as you continue wrapping. Bind their lower wire ends beneath the green yarn.
4. Continue wrapping down the stem until all attachment points and wire tails are covered.
5. Secure the final yarn end with a small amount of glue. Gently adjust the branches, leaves and outer petals to finish the arrangement.

Try More Crochet Rose Shapes

Mix small rose stems with larger flowers for a varied bouquet. Explore our free 3D rose pattern, Thai rose pattern and cappuccino rose pattern, or return to the free flower pattern collection.

Continue with a Botanical PDF Project

If you enjoy layered pink flowers, a floral C2C blanket gives you a different way to work with the same colour family. Follow a printable chart or written colour sequences at your own pace.

Explore our flower and botanical PDF patterns for more chart-based projects, and save this free small rose tutorial for your next handmade bouquet.