Crochet Rose Pattern – Lovely Long Stem Roses

If you’re like me, you love flowers but hate watching them wilt. With this free crochet rose pattern, you’ll create gorgeous crochet long stem roses to bundle up in a bouquet or to stand alone.

This crochet rose pattern will work up quickly and brighten up any room with these lovely crochet flowers.

Crochet Rose Pattern – Lovely Long Stem Roses

I created this crochet rose pattern in beautiful shades of pink, yellow and white because I absolutely love roses of all different colors (also, I didn’t have red yarn in my stash but that secret is between you and me). For the white roses, I used a pastel tweed yarn that gave the white crochet roses a little more depth and color pop.

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Despite having six flowers in the bouquet, this crochet rose pattern works up very quickly.

This crochet rose pattern creates three larger and three smaller roses with stems but, of course, you can add as little or as many roses to your bouquet as you like and in any colors you like.

Fill your house with crochet roses! You don’t need a house for anything but crochet, right? Right?

I used several different yarn scraps that I have from different projects. This is a great project to use up smaller bits of yarn you might be hanging onto because who gets rid of any yarn, really?

If you’d prefer a PDF of this pattern which includes step by step pictures for every part of making these crochet roses, you can do so on either Etsy or Ravelry!

All yarn I used was scrap yarn from previous projects. I highly recommend utilizing this pattern to use up any random bits of yarn you might have hanging around.

I used wire instead of a wooden dowel because I feel the bend of the wire gives the roses a more organic and realistic feel.

Show your loved ones that you really love them by creating a crochet rose bouquet for them instead of buying them! Love is forever, after all. Am I doing this catch-phrase thing right?

SKILL LEVEL

Easy

MATERIALS

The roses created for the sample of this pattern used medium (4) weight yarn. However, you can use any scrap yarn you’d like!

You will need approximately 5-6 g or 8 yards per rose bud.

You will need approximately 5-6 g or 8 yards per leaf and wrapping the stem.

You will also need Aluminum Craft Wire to create the stems.

TOOLS
5 MM Hook or hook that corresponds with your yarn.
Tapestry needle
Scissors
Wire Cutters (or something to cut the craft wire with)

GAUGE

Gauge is not important.

FINISHED SIZE

Rose bud, depending on size made, is approximately 2 to 3 inches in diameter.

Each rose is approximately 10 inches tall. You can change the height very easily, if you prefer.

ABBREVIATIONS

This pattern is written in US terms.

• Ch – Chain 
• Sl st – Slip stitch 
• Sc- Single crochet
• Hdc – Half double crochet
• Dc – Double crochet
• Tr – Treble crochet
• St(s) – Stitch(es) 
• Sk – Skip
• […] – Repeats are listed inside brackets 
• (…) – Instructions inside parentheses indicate to work all stitches in the same stitch.
• (…) – Stitch counts are listed at the end of the row in parentheses and italics.

How to Make these Crochet Long Stem Roses

I made three small roses with one in each color and three large roses with one in each color.

SMALL ROSE

Ch 25
Row 1 – Place 1 sc in 2nd ch from hook and each ch across. (28)
Row 2 – Ch 2, turn. Sk 1st st. [(2 dc, 2 tr, 2 dc) in next st, 1 sc next st]. Repeat inside brackets 11x. 1 st remains. Place 3 dc in last st. (80, not including ch 2)

Finish off, leave a long tail for assembly.

LARGE ROSE

Ch 35
Row 1 – Place 1 sc in Sc 2nd ch from hook and each ch across. (34)
Row 2 – Ch 2, turn. Sk 1st st. [(2 dc, 2 tr, 2 dc) in next st, 1 sc next st]. Repeat inside brackets 16x. 1 st remains. Place 3 dc in last st. (115, not including ch 2)

Finish off, leave a long tail for assembly.

You will notice that your work after Row 2 for either size does not lay flat and instead is a spiral. This is good!

LEAF

Leaf (make as many as preferred)
Ch 9
Row 1 A – Place 1 sc in 2nd ch from hook. 1 hdc next ch, 1 dc in each of the next 4 chs, 1 hdc next ch, 3 sc last ch.

Turn to work along the bottom of the chains.

Row 1 B – Place 1 hdc next ch, 1 dc in each of the next 4 chs, 1 hdc next ch, 1 sc last ch. Sl st to first sc of Row 1A to close. (17)

Finish off, leave a tail for assembly.

ASSEMBLY

These roses assemble together in a few steps. First we create the rose “bud”, then we create a stem, attach the leaf and wrap the stem.

Make Rose “Bud”
To make the two rows we worked of either size of rose into a rose “bud”, we will roll them so that the petals sit on top and outward from each other.

Beginning with the first stitch of Row 2 in either rose size, begin rolling the rose. You will tuck the bottom of the stitch in toward the bottom of the next stitch.

You’ll want to roll the rose as if the base chains are a coil. So, when rolling the rose together, look at the side the chains are on. You can follow the roll by continuing to place the chains on the outside of the previous rolled chain.

Once the “bud” is formed, you can flip it over to see the top of the rose.

Make sure you’re happy with the placement of your little petals. Once happy with the placement, secure these in place.

Using a tapestry needle and the tail of yarn, sew up and down through the center of the rose and side to side through the chains at the back to make sure everything is secure.

When everything is secure, you should have a rose bud that looks similar to the picture below. Weave in your ends before moving on to the stem.

Stem – Part 1
To create an “organic” looking stem, we use 18 gauge crafting wire. It’s easier than it sounds!
Place your crafting wire next to your rose bud and decide how long you’d prefer the stem to be. You can make this stem as long or as short as you’d like.

When you’ve decided on your length preference, fold the wire over so that it doubles on itself. We are making a folded piece of wire so the two ends are on the same side to create the stem. Cut the wire with wire cutters.

To attach the wire to the rose bud, push the two wire ends into the center top of the rose bud so that the ends stick out of the bottom like a stem.

Make sure that the ends of the wire go through two different places on the rose bud. They should be close together, but they shouldn’t be in the same place. This makes sure that the stem stays on and doesn’t slip right through the rose bud.

Pull the ends of the wire all the way through the rose bud so that it begins to resemble a rose with a long stem.

Stem – Part 2
We will now cover the wire by winding yarn tightly around it. This is very similar to wrapping wire for faux floral bouquets.

To begin, use a tapestry needle to thread your green yarn (or whatever stem color you choose) through a stitch or two at the bottom of the rose, as close as you can to where your wire sticks through.

Then, tie the end and the working yarn together to secure it. Now, as tightly as you can, begin wrapping the wire with the yarn. You can wrap over the tail end of the yarn to hide it.

TIP: It’s much easier to hold the yarn tight and twist the wire in your hands than it is to try to actually wrap the yarn around the wire.
TIP: Keep this as tight as possible. Every inch or so, push the wrapped yarn up the wire a little bit to make sure that no wire is peaking through.

Continue wrapping down the length of the stem until you get to the bottom of the wire. Wrap as closely as you can to the bottom. Once at the bottom, fold the last ¼ of an inch or so over back onto itself.

Now, we work our way back up the stem, wrapping over what we’ve already done.

Before we do, we want to:
1) Make sure that we efficiently wrap yarn over the end of the wire. We don’t want any wire poking out or hurting anyone!

2) Then, about ¾ ths of the way up the stem, tie the leaf to the stem with the tail ends.

Don’t worry about the ends sticking out. We will wrap yarn over them so they won’t be noticed!

With these two steps complete, wrap the stem from bottom to top, the same way we did previously.

When you reach the leaf, wrap as close as you can to where the leaf is tied on and then simply go over the leaf and continue wrapping.

When you’ve wrapped all the way to the bottom of the rose bud, tie your yarn off to secure it and weave in your ends. You’re all done!

And that’s all there is to it! I hope you’ve enjoyed this crochet rose pattern.

If you want to give this crochet rose bouquet a final touch, you can spritz them with some perfume or a few drops of rose oil.

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Crochet Rose Pattern – Lovely Long Stem Roses