DIY Crochet Hanging Plant: A Cozy Addition to Your Home

Looking to add a touch of green to your space? Why not try a crochet hanging plant! These charming creations combine the beauty of plants with the craftiness of crochet, making them perfect for adding a cozy and unique touch to any room. With a variety of patterns and colors to choose from, you can easily find the perfect crochet hanging plant to complement your style and brighten up your space.

Materials

I used a 3 mm crochet hook to make my plant, which is small, but I believe it would look really nice with a bigger hook and yarn. You can also have the flowers in different shades to make it colorful or choose any color combination you like.

The plant will measure 10 cm / 3.9 inches tall, including the pot and vines, but not the hanging loops.

Abbreviations (U.S.)

• R: round
• mr: magic ring
• ch: chain
• sl st: slip stitch
• sc: single crochet
• hdc: half double crochet
• inc: increase
• dec: decrease
• **: repeat to the end of round
• (...) x...: repeat the inside of parentheses according to the indicated number, e.g., (...) x2
• [...] total stitches at the end of round

Soil

With brown yarn:

• R1: 8 sc in mr, sl st to first st
• R2: 1 ch, *sc inc*, sl st to first st [16]
• R3: 1 ch, *1 sc, sc inc*, sl st to first st [24]
• R4: 1 ch, *2 sc, sc inc*, sl st to first st [32]
• R5: 1 ch, *3 sc, sc inc*, sl st to first st [40]

Break yarn.

Flowers

Use flower color yarn. You'll make as many as you want to put on your vines; I made five.

In a magic ring: (3 ch, sl st) x5

Cut the yarn, secure and hide the ends.

Vines and Leaves

With green yarn:

To start, insert the hook into a space between rounds 2-3 into what would be the post of a stitch of the soil. Grab the green yarn and pull it through. Now, we will chain up; how many chains will depend on the length of the vine you want. I made 33 chains.

We will work up the chains, placing a sl st into each ch, going from the end to the beginning of the chain, but we'll place some leaves on the way up.

Creating Smaller Leaves

For the smaller ones: chain 2, sl st into the same ch you made the last sl st, chain 2 once more, and sl st into the same ch you made last sl st.

Creating Bigger Leaves

For the bigger leaves: chain 2, sl st into the same ch you made last sl st, chain 2 again, sl st into the same ch you made last sl st, chain 2 once more, and sl st into the same ch you made last sl st.

You can make leaves wherever you want; it could be every certain number of stitches or just random.

Once you have worked up the vine chain, make a sc into the soil (keep a loose tension when working this sc). You want to work this single crochet the same way we started, which means insert the hook through a stitch between R2-3 of soil (not too far away so it doesn't scrunch), yarn over, pull through, yarn over, pull through two loops.

When you want to add a flower, just insert the hook into the flower (can be wherever) and into the vine chain, yarn over, pull through all loops to complete a sl st and continue up the vine.

Make your vines of different lengths by adding or subtracting chains. Make some vines with only leaves and add flowers to some. Once you have gone around and are close to the first vine again, make your last vine in a space between R1-2. This will cover a little of that space in the center, so it doesn't look so empty. You could also keep working vines if you'd like.

When you have finished the vines, grab the loose ends and pull them through to the bottom of the soil; make a knot.

POT BASE:

Close every round with a sl st on the first st of the round and start every round on the same st as the sl st.

• R1: 10 hdc in mr
• R2: 2 ch, *hdc inc*, sl st to first st [20]
• R3: 2 ch, *1 hdc, hdc inc*, sl st to first st [30]
• R4: 2 ch, *2 hdc, hdc inc*, sl st to first st [40]
• R5: 1 ch, back loop only 40 sc [40]

Rest of Pot

We'll work in a spiral from here on.

• R6-10: 40 sc [40]

Don't cut the yarn.

Joining the Pot and Soil

Attach the soil to the pot by working sc all around. To do this, insert the hook through the stitch of the pot and then through the stitch of the soil, completing a sc. Stuff before you finish attaching the soil. To make the hanging loop, don't cut the yarn.

For the Loops

Count 19 stitches from the last sc you made and mark it, chain 45 (or the length you'd like), and sl st into the marked stitch, then sl st into the following st and chain 45 again, placing a sl st into the st before the very first chain.

Hide any loose ends.