Blooming Cacti Crocheted

Crocheted artificial plants will be a great gift or decoration for your own home. They turn out to be especially necessary where live pets simply cannot grow - in the shaded areas of the apartment, in the kitchen equipped with a loggia. Blooming cacti will bring a touch of good mood and a sunny day to any home.
What you need to take for two cacti:
- Green yarn (wool with acrylic) - 100 gr.
-Hook number 1.2.
-Yris yarn of white, yellow, pink color.
-Any brown yarn for the soil.
-8 large yellow beads.
-4 small golden beads.
- Small pink beads or needles with beads.
Toothpicks.
- Filler for cacti.
- A little foam for the pot.
-2 flower pots.
-2 sticks about 30 cm long.
How to tie cacti:
The basis for both cacti is the same. A chain of six air loops is dialed, closed in a circle:
The second row consists of twelve double crochets:
In the third row there will be twenty-four columns, half - embossed. This is done as follows: first, three air loops are dialed:
Then the hook is inserted through the column of the previous row:
And an ordinary double crochet fits:
The next column is normal, then a relief column is executed under its base. Here's what you should get:
The third row must be knitted in the same way, increasing the number of loops. There should be forty-eight of them:
The fourth row contains the same forty-eight loops. But now the front relief loops alternate with the wrong ones. When performing facial loops, the hook goes under the column like this:
In the case of wrong columns, the tool is inserted from the wrong side of the canvas:
As a result, the canvas resembles an elastic band:
Finished fourth row:
In the fifth row, loops are added again, the total number grows to seventy:
View from above:
The following two rows do not contain any changes (there are 70 columns each):
In the eighth row, it is necessary to reduce the number of loops, knitting together two columns each, until the total number decreases to sixty-three. In the ninth row, too, sixty-three columns. Tenth row - again a decrease to fifty-six. From the eleventh to the fifteenth row, the number of loops does not change. In the sixteenth row of columns there will be forty-nine, in the seventeenth the same. Everything, the basis for the cactus is ready:
Here's what it looks like inside:
Now you can take the filler and thoroughly fill the body of the plant:
A folded sheet of foam is placed in the pot selected for the cactus. In principle, you can take any other filler, up to folded paper:
Any rigid plastic wand, twig, piece of branch is introduced into the center.
A circle of cardboard or thin foam is placed on top, equal to the diameter of the pot:
Here's what should come out:
The next step is the manufacture of soil. To do this, from a brown yarn, you need to knit an even circle according to the scheme below:
The earth does not attach to the pot in any way; it is simply neatly laid out on a layer of foam rubber.
You can simply pin the cactus on top, but it’s better to sew it to the soil:
Here is a flower in a pot:
Cactus flowers will be different. For the first option you will need pink and white "Iris". Each flower consists of two layers. The bottom, pink, is performed as follows:
Ready layer of flower:
Top, white, slightly smaller in size:
Here's what an almost finished flower will look like:
It remains to decorate it with a pink bead:
In total, eight of these flowers will be required. They can be sewn to a cactus or attached using a needle with a bead at the end. For cactus needles, you need ordinary toothpicks:
They stick into the first cactus in random order:
Flowers for the second cactus are a little more complicated. They are also two-layer, fit in the following pattern:
Two layers should be made for the first flower. The first is from a white Iris, with five petals:
The second is from a yellow thread, with three petals.
The flowers are folded, decorated with yellow and golden beads:
Ready item:
For the second flower, the first layer must be connected in the same way as for the large flower:
The second is different, it fits in the same pattern as the pink flowers, but for the petals, not eight air loops are gathered, but twelve:
Only large beads will serve as decoration:
Finished flowers are attached to the cactus using needles with balls:
This is what an interesting artificial flower is. It remains only to supplement it with needles. Toothpicks are stuck in three pieces, forming clusters of needles:
Everything, the second cactus is ready:
Crocheted flowering cacti are very elegant, original and interesting. If desired, you can change the shades of flowers or beads, adapting them to your interior.