Alka and Arts: Crochet Fruits Part 10: Crochet Pineapple

Hello friends, how are you?Hope doing good and trying to be happy in this Corona period too. The whole year passed in waiting that now Corona will go, now it will definitely go..... But at least in India we are still in a dark shadow of it. Vaccination is going on and that is the only ray of hope.Any way, we have trained our minds to remain fresh in any environment with the help of our hobby, CROCHET. Since last nine posts, I was making different fruits in this fruit dish. This is the last one and it is Pineapple.

Pattern: I use Yellow and green yarns with 3.5 mm crochet hook. With green, R1: In a magic loop 18 dc R2: ch2, hdc 1 in each st, BO but don’t cut as this colour is used in alternate round (18 sts) R3: with yellow, sc1, (ch2, dc2, skip 1 st, sc 1 in next) rep, make a knot don’t cut the yarn as we have to use it in alternate rounds. (9 petals made) R4: with green, sc 1 in same st on green part (one round down), [sc 1 in 2 sts, sc 1 in next st but on green part one round down] 9 times, cl.

R5: with yellow,( make petals of dc 5 in the gap of two yellow petals previously made, join by sc 1 in the middle green st) 9 times, cl.

R6: with green, (sc 1 in the gap on green st one round down, sc 1 in 4 yeallow dc-sts) 9 times, cl R7: with yellow, (make petal of dc 7 in the gap of two petals previously made, join by sc 1 at the middle green sc-st) 9 times, cl.

R8: with green, (sc 1in the gap at one round down, skip 1 dc-st, makesc 1 on each of the 6 dc-sts) rep 9 times, cl Repeat round 7 and 8 till the height is 5”.

Next round: with yellow, (dc 5 in gap, join by sc 1 in middle green sc-st) 9 times, cl Next round: with green, (sc 1 in one round down st, skip first st, sc 1 in 4 sts) 9 times, cl

Next round: with yellow, (dc 3 in gap, join by sc1 at the middle green sc-st) 9 times, cl

Fill fiber inside. Next round: with green, (sc 1 gap one round down, sc 1 in 2 dc-sts) 9 times, cl Next round: with yellow, (dc2 in gap, sc 2 at the middle sc-st) rep 9 times, cl Next round: with green, (sc 1 in gap one round down, sc 1 in 1dc-st) 9 times, cl

Stem: R1: with green make dc 18 in a magic loop, cl R2: ch2, hdc 1 in back loop of each st, cl. Now make (1 leaf in front loop and next leaf in st) Leaf: R1: Join yarn at front loop of one st, ch16, skip first ch, sc1 in second, hdc 1 in third, dc 1 in remaining 13 sts, skip one st and join in next by sl st, make such 6 leaves. R2: By inserting metallic wire, make sc 1 in each st at corner, make ch1 then sc 1 on each st of other side.