ORCHID Yellow phalaenopsis crocheted

Phalaenopsis is a genus of orchid, of great economic importance in the world. Mainly its various hybrids of different colors. Today I bring you this beautiful flower made in crochet, it is the first part of the plant so keep an eye on the next post to see the complete plant. So friends of the Hive platform, join me in this step by step.

Used materials:

• Light yellow and dark yellow crochet thread.
• Knitting needle
• Goldsmith wire
• Scissors

Image 3. Materials

Orchid flowers are characterized by having 3 sepals, 2 petals, 1 lip, and a column.

Petal

We take the light yellow thread, we start with a magic ring. V-1 For sepal 1 you make 17 chains, then you come back with 15 double crochets inserting it in the second chain and you make a slip stitch on the magic ring.

Image 4. Sepal 1 with the 17 chains and the magic ring

Repeat the previous step two more times to form sepals 2 and 3

Image 5. The three sepals in V-1

V-2. Start with 1 single crochet, 2 double crochet, 3 double crochet, 3 double double crochet, 2 triple double crochet, 1 double double crochet, 1 double crochet, 1 double crochet, 1 double crochet and chain 2

Image 6. V-2 shows the triple point.
We continue with the V-2 of sepal 1, 1 single crochet, 1 double crochet, 1 double crochet, 1 double double crochet, 2 triple double crochet, 3 double double crochet, 3 double crochet, 2 double crochet and 1 double crochet .

Image 7. Split 1 on V-2
You perform the previous step two more times to perform the other two sepals.

Image 8. Sepals in V-2
V-3. For this round you must insert the goldsmith wire into the fabric. Performing 15 single crochets, 3 single crochets in the same hole and 15 single crochets.

Image 9. Sepalo 1 in V-3
You should also repeat the previous step 2 times.

Image 10. The sepals are ready

Petals

V-1 starts with a magic ring, 17 chains, 15 double crochets, 1 slip stitch in the ring, 17 chain stitches, 15 double crochets and 1 stitch performed.

V-2 starts with 1 single crochet, 1 double crochet, 9 double double crochet, 1 double crochet, 1 double crochet, 1 double crochet and two chains

Image 11. Petal 1 in V-2

We continue with the V-2 with 1 single crochet, 1 double crochet, 1 double crochet, 9 double crochet 1 double crochet and 1 double crochet

Image 12. Petals in V-2

V-3 we start with 3 single crochet, 1 double crochet, 1 double crochet, 1 double double crochet, 3 triple double crochet, 3 double double crochet, 1 double crochet, 1 double crochet, 5 double crochet and 2 double crochet in same gap, 5 single crochet, 1 double crochet, 1 double crochet, 3 double double crochet, 3 triple double crochet, 1 double double crochet, 1 double crochet, 1 double crochet and 3 double crochet

Image 13. Petals in V-3

V-4 inserts the wire into the fabric with 19 single crochet, 3 single crochet in the same hole and 19 single crochet. Repeat it again

Image 14. Petals in V-4

Lip and column

V-1. Take the dark yellow thread and make a magic ring, 5 chains, 2 double crochet, 5 chains, 1 slip stitch, 4 chains, 2 double double crochet, 4 chains, 1 slip stitch, 4 chains, 2 double double crochet, 4 chain stitches, 1 slip stitch, chain 4, 2 double double crochets. 4 chains. 1 slip stitch.

V-2. Insert the wire into the fabric and perform 36 single crochets

Image 15. Lip and column

To finish, join all the pieces.
List our beautiful orchid. I am an orchid lover!

Image 16. Finished flower

Note: The photos were taken by the author @maribelf with the camera of a LG Phoenix 4 mobile phone.