Free Ideas for How to Embellish Crocheted Flowers

Embellish Your Crocheted Flowers With Buttons, Ribbon, Pinbacks, and Other Craft Supplies

Are your crocheted flowers looking a little plain? Embellish them! Find free ideas for embellishing crocheted flowers using buttons, ribbon, pinbacks, scrapbooking supplies, and other items.

Button Centers for Flowers

Layered Crochet Rose With Fancy Button in the Center

Layered Crochet Rose With Fancy Button in the Center

Many flowers have interesting centers that seem to “pop” out from the flower itself — so it’s a no-brainer to use buttons that mimic the look of these centers of your crocheted flowers. This is a particularly lovely idea if you have a stash of oddball buttons that don’t go with anything and don’t have mates.

See Examples:

  • I used a fancy flower-shaped button as the center on the easy layered crochet rose pictured above.

Pinback Centers for Crocheted Flowers

Crocheted Flowers Embellished With Pinbacks for Centers

Crocheted Flowers Embellished With Pinbacks for Centers


Pins and pinbacks make intriguing embellishments for crocheted flowers. They come in a wide variety of themes and colors, so you’ll never be at a loss for interesting designs to use.

As far as embellishments go, it doesn’t get much easier than pinbacks. You don’t have to figure out how to adhere them to the flower, and no sewing is required. You can just stick the pin to the flower; it’s as simple as that.

The picture above shows you a variety of different crocheted flowers that have all been embellished with pinbacks in the centers.

Embellishing Flowers With Ribbon

Finished crochet flower embellished with a red and white ribbon bow.

Finished crochet flower embellished with a red and white ribbon bow.

It’s so easy to tie a ribbon bow and then stitch it onto your crocheted flowers. If you have a flower that looks a little bare, it’s a good candidate for this idea.

Embellishing Crocheted Flowers With Scrapbooking Supplies

There might be times when you’d like to indulge in a little mixed media. It’s fun to combine scrapbooking supplies with crochet. I often use my crocheted flowers (and other crochet motifs) in my scrapbook albums; they make delightful accents on mini album covers and in various other paper craft projects.

Note: Scrapbooking supplies aren’t generally washable, so if that’s an important consideration for you, use caution.

Related Resources: Free Crochet Flower Patterns
Crocheting Flowers

Posted By: Amy Solovay


This page was last updated on 1-19-2022.

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