Project introduction
This is a pattern overview, not a full step-by-step tutorial. If you are looking for a Mother’s Day gift that outlasts fresh flowers and chocolate, a handmade necklace might be the answer. The Spring Blossoms Necklace pairs crocheted flower motifs with simple jewelry findings to create a springlike keepsake a mom can wear for years.
A Mother’s Day Gift Idea for You
The project at the center of this overview is the Spring Blossoms Necklace, a floral jewelry design by Jennifer E Ryan. It first appeared on the Crochet Guild of America website in March for National Crochet Month, as part of the guild’s first Mega Crochet-a-Long, and the designer now offers it free on her own site. Video tutorials accompany each stage, covering the flower motifs, stiffening, and basic jewelry assembly, and the elements can be rearranged for different looks. Full steps live in the Original designer’s pattern and instructions.
A Few Words about Crochet Cotton Thread
The sample pieces were crocheted in Aunt Lydia’s Fashion 3 cotton crochet thread, shown in Plum and Warm Teal. If thread crochet sounds intimidating, the designer offers reassurance: size 3 thread is noticeably thicker than the fine size 10 thread used for vintage doilies, so it is much friendlier to handle. Anyone still nervous can work the motifs first in acrylic medium weight yarn as practice, then repeat them in thread once the stitches feel comfortable.
The designer rates the project Confident Beginner. Finished sizes are given as 3 inches across for the large motif and 1 3/4 inches across for the small motif, which helps you check that your tension matches before moving on to the jewelry assembly.
Supplies
Gather everything before you begin, since this project blends crochet with a little jewelry making. The list below covers the thread, hook, beads, and finishing tools exactly as the designer specifies, and her final video walks through each jewelry finding for anyone unfamiliar with them.
- Aunt Lydia’s Fashion 3 crochet thread, in Plum (182-871) and Warm Teal (182-65)
- A 2.75mm crochet hook
- 5 eye pins
- 5 glass bicone beads
- 10 glass seed beads
- A necklace chain with clasp
- Jewelry pliers
- 4 gems and gem glue
- Fabric stiffener or white glue
- An artist brush
- Plastic wrap
- A small square of cardboard
- Rust-proof pins
Large Flower
The large flower motif opens with an adjustable ring, and the designer includes a simple chain alternative for crocheters who prefer to skip that technique. From there the motif grows through an increase round followed by rounds of chain loops that set up the petal round, which finishes with twelve petals before fastening off. Because this is an overview rather than a tutorial, the exact stitch-by-stitch rounds are not repeated here; follow the designer’s original page for the complete sequence and the accompanying video demonstration.
Small Flower - Make 3
You will make three of the smaller flower motifs, which begin the same way with an adjustable ring or the chain alternative. Their rounds are shorter, building chain loops and then a petal round that yields five petals per flower. Once all the flowers are crocheted, give them a steam block, pin them and allow them to dry fully. Paint the wrong sides with fabric stiffener, set them wrong side down on clean plastic wrap, pin them in position, and let them dry; the designer repeats this stiffening step twice.
Jewelry Finishing
With the motifs stiffened, the jewelry work begins. Beads go onto each eye pin in the order seed bead, bicone bead, seed bead, then jewelry pliers form a loop at the end and trim the excess. Open the loops to secure the bead pieces to the flowers, using the designer’s photo as a placement guide on a flat work surface. Attach the eye pins extending from the small flowers at the chain’s center point, glue a gem into each flower center, and let everything dry overnight.
You can use the elements of this pattern to create other combinations
The same elements can be recombined into several necklace styles. One option centers the large motif with three bead elements, another uses a single small flower motif paired with a crystal heart bead, and a third joins three small flower motifs with bead elements. Choosing a color the recipient loves, or matching the thread to a favorite dress, turns the finished piece into a personal keepsake.
The designer notes that a handmade gift like this warms the heart and reminds the wearer she is appreciated every time it is worn. For more gift-themed crochet overviews, see Candy Cane Crochet Wine Bag Pattern, My Fast 2025 Gift Idea: Pattern Overview and Ghost Gift Buddy Crochet Pattern by Yarn Society: Pattern Overview.
