TinyFlowerpots: Simple leaves

December 15, 2025

Gosh - that took me way too long.
I tried really hard to get ahead of Christmas presents, but it still ends up being really stressful, with way too much stuff going on.
Well, what better way to take a break and relax than to crochet our first plant.

Today, we are going to make a very basic plant with two leaves and plant it in one of the flowerpots we made in the Tiny Flowerpots Introduction post.
You might think this sounds very plain, but trust me - the pot still has plenty of character.

For this plant, I’ve modified this amazing Maisie and Ruth pattern to be symmetric along both axes and produce slightly more inward curved tips. You can also just follow the original pattern for a more pointy leaf.

Materials

Yarn (green)
Crochet Hook (2 to 3 mm, depending on your yarn)
Needle that can fit your yarn
A crochet flowerpot without a plant.

Names

Before we start, let’s take a brief look at the abbreviations I use for the different stitches:

SC = single crochet (One stitch in the next loop)
SLST = slip stitch (Yarn over and pull through both the last stitch and the new loop on the hook)
HDC = half double crochet (Yarn over, push hook through stitch, and pull yarn through. Then yarn over again and pull through all three loops)
DC = double crochet (Like HDC, but instead of pulling through all three loops, only pull through the first two, yarn over again, and pull through the remaining loops)
CH = chaining loops (By pulling yarn through loop)

This guide assumes you already know how to crochet and mostly just lists the steps or stitches required.
The stitches themselves will be highlighted in bold.

The leaves

Begin by making a loop around your hook and CH 8.
This marks the main stem of the leaf, to which we’ll be attaching the other stitches.

Short crochet chain made from green yarn on an orange hook. The active yarn is going off-screen, while the yarn not at the beginning of the chain is only about 4 cm long.

Start in the first loop from the hook and add a SC.
In the next loop, you’ll want to place HDC.

To do so, yarn over before pushing through the loop, grab the yarn, and pull the yarn through all three loops on the hook.

The same chain, but this time, the active yarn has been wrapped around the hook from the back, going back under it from the front. Crochet hook stuck closer to the chain with three loops on it.

In the next loop, you’ll want to add a DC.
Again, yarn over before pushing through the loop, but instead of pulling the yarn through all three loops, only pull it through the first two. Then yarn over again and pull through the remaining loops.
This effectively gives the leaf its width.

Crochet chain with some stitches on one side. The crochet hook has two active loops on it.

Next, add two DC in the following stitch, followed by a single DC, one HDC and then one SC.
And with that, you should have reached the end of the chain we made earlier, marking the first side of the leaf finished.

Green crochet shape that looks like a cut-in-half ellipse. The last loop is still around the hook with the yarn running off-screen. It already looks like half of an oval leaf

To transition from one side to the other, CH 1 and then repeat the same pattern from the other side in the loops from the chain:

SC
HDC
DC
two DC
DC
HDC
SC

To close off the leaf, add one slip stitch, cut off the yarn with some excess material and pull through.

Elliptical green leaf with visible crochet stitches.
A stem-like line is visible along the middle lengthwise, with small ribs running outwards.

Lastly, just do it all again until you have two leaves.
If you’d prefer, you can obviously make as many leaves as you want.

Adding it to the flowerpot

Using the needle, you can pretty easily attach the leaves to the flowerpot.
To make sure the leaves don’t move, you can pin them in place using smaller needles or hairpins.

A tiny crochet flowerpot with black eyes placed on a desk.
Two green leaves have been pinned on the top using sewing needles. The excess yarn is just running off the sides.
One leaf starts in the middle and slightly overhangs on the left of the pot. The other leaf starts in the middle and slightly overhangs on the right of the pot.

Depending on how much yarn you have left on the leaves, you can start working it through the top layer and out the bottom.
Remember to enter through the same bottom loop you exited the flowerpot from to make sure the green yarn is only running inside.
You can remove the needles you used to pin the leaves in place once you fix them in place.

If you don’t have enough access yarn to properly lock the leaves in place, simply cut off new yarn from the ball.
It will automatically lock itself in place if you go back and forth often enough. Alternatively, you can also tie it together.

Once you are happy with your work, cut off the green yarn close to the outside and push it inside the pot using a wooden rod or your crochet hook.

Crochet flowerpot flipped upside down. Two green yarn ends are coming out of the bottom loops.

And that’s it, your quick and easy first tiny flowerpot with a plant.

Small crochet flowerpot looking at the camera.
Two oval leaves have been fixed to the top, spanning from the left side of the pot to the right. The outward-pointing tips of the leaves curl upwards slightly, giving the leaves more dimension.

Bonus: Other use

Instead of using the two leaves on one of the tiny flowerpots, you could also attach them to a loop and use them as headphone accessories.

Making a loop is fairly simple, as long as you make sure to make it the proper size to fit tightly around the headband of your headphones.

You start by making a loop around your hook around 7 cm from the end of the yarn to sew on the leaves later on.

Green yarn tied in a loop around the crochet hook. The active yarn is running off-screen, but the start section has about 7 cm of excess material.

Then you CH 32 (the exact amount differs based on your headphones).

A long curled-up crochet chain on a wooden desk. The crochet hook is stuck in the last loop of the chain.

Afterwards, SLST into the 12th loop from the hook.
Make sure you go from bottom to top to properly align the chain with itself, without twisting.

The crochet hook stuck from the bottom up through a loop of the chain.
The chain is not twisted, meaning that the front faces are still facing up.

To finish the loop, SLST in all the remaining loops of the chain until you reach the start.
Lastly, cut off the yarn with about 7 cm to spare and pull it through to tie it off.

Thin, stem-like crochet chain with a loop on one side.
Two roughly 9 cm long yarn sections are extending from the end of it.

Place the leaves with the start facing inwards on either side of the start section of the loop you just made.
You can connect them together by using a needle and basically sowing them on. Go through the first single crochet of the leaf from the bottom and back through the headphone loop we made into the single crochet on the other side. Repeat the process for the other leaf, tie the ends of yarn together and cut them off.

The same stem-like crochet chain, from the bottom with both leaves sewn to it. One on the left, the other on the right side. Both leaves are also facing down.

Now you can wrap them around the headband of your headphones and push the leaves through the hole to lock them in place.
Well done, you are a little cute plant now.

The finished flowerpot with two oval leaves on top, placed next to a pair of headphones with the leaf loop wrapped around it, sitting on a wooden desk.