Fleur-de-lys Motif Crochet Pattern

I thought I might crochet fleur-de-lys to use in Monday's post. However a bit of searching the interwebs in all the usual places showed up very few pattern options.

So I decided try my hand at developing my own fleur-de-lys crochet pattern.


I was hopeful of coming up with a pattern that could be worked continuously.

I made some progress but I wasn't happy with how the outer petals looked wrong with one worked on the right side and the other worked back to front so I frogged it and started over.

For my second attempt at developing a pattern I decided to crochet each section separately and then stitch them together.

I'm rather pleased with the results. What do you think? It did need to be blocked but I decided I would just put a big book on it for a while. I thought it rather apt that the big dictionary I grabbed for the purpose was French.

Fleur-de-lys Pattern

This pattern uses US crochet terminology

This fleur-de-lys is made of 4 parts

• left petals (upper and lower)
• right petals (upper and lower)
• central petals (upper and lower)
• central bar

Yarn: 4 ply Clever Country (left over from a lace project - I really like this yarn)

Hook: 2.35mm / size 1

The outer petals

chain  20
*SS into second stitch from hook then SC into same stitch, SC & HDC in next st, HDC & DC in next st, HDC in next st, SC in next 5 stitches, HDC in next st, 2 DC in next, 2 DC in next, 1 DC & 1 TC in next, 2 TC in next, 2DC in next, 2 DC in next, HDC in next st, HDC in next st, SC then SS into same stitch** tie off.

For the outer petals on the other side work the above in reverse

chain  20
work from ** to *

Center Petals

To work the spine of the center petal

chain 26
SS into second stitch from hook, SC 23, SS, ch 1

To work the petals

*SS, SC, HDC, DC, DC, TC, TC, DC, DC, HDC, HDC, SC, SC, SS, SS into next 4 stitches (5 SS in total), SC, HDC, DC, DC, HDC, SC, SC, SS**, ch1
work in reverse back up the other side from ** to *

Central Bar

To make the central bar work 8 stitch double foundation chain.

Using a yarn needle stitch the outer petals to the central ones and then stitch the centre bar on last.

Ada-cat helped with taking photos, which always makes things more interesting.

This is my first attempt to write a motif pattern. I hope it works for you and I haven't over looked anything in the instructions. If you give this a try I would love to hear from you on how the pattern worked and see your finished motif.