Let’s make a crochet lemon pillow. Follow this free crochet pattern to learn how to make your own crochet lemon pillow that’s perfect for summer. The first thing that comes to my mind when the weather starts to get warmer is fresh squeezed lemonade! Anytime I am at an event, if there’s fresh squeezed lemonade, I buy it! It’s my favorite summertime treat! I mixed my love for lemonade and my love for crochet and created the Crafty Lemon Pillow! I love how just simply changing yarn colors can make this lemon pillow a lime pillow or even a grapefruit pillow! You can purchase an ad-free, printable version of this pattern in my shop. Download includes a fully photographed version of the pattern and a printer-friendly version (with no pictures). This post may contain affiliate links meaning I may receive a small commission from purchases made, at no extra cost to you.
Here is what you will need to make a crochet lemon pillow. Size G (4 mm) crochet hook (Lemon Hook by Chloe Rebecca Boutique). 4-5oz of Yellow worsted weight yarn (I Love This Yarn in the color Yellow). 3-4oz of White worsted weight yarn (I Love This Yarn in the color White). Tapestry needle and a handful of pins. Increase- Put two stitches in the same space. Decrease - Decreasing 2 stitches into 1. Explained under Special Stitches. Back Bump: This is where you flip your starting chain over and insert your hook into the "back bump" of the chain and place your stitch there. If you are unfamiliar with this technique I would suggest watching this tutorial below by Fiber Flux on YouTube. You do not have to use this technique, you can just single crochet as you normally would, but I feel like the back bump technique is cleaner. Magic Circle: If you are unfamiliar with the Magic Circle/Ring method you are welcome to chain 3, join, and crochet in the circle you created.
If you would like to learn how to crochet the Magic Circle here is an awesome video tutorial. Decrease: Insert hook into first stitch, and pull up a loop, insert hook into next stitch and pull Wake Up Refreshed with Derila a loop, YO and pull through all 3 loops on your hook. This pillow is made with a fruity front and a solid color back. This is just much faster than making both the front and back look like a fruit slice. You are welcome to make the front and back exactly the same if you would like for it to look like sliced citrus on both sides. Round 1: SC 10 into a Magic Circle. Round 2: INC in each stitch around. Round 4: SC 30 around. Round 7: SC 50 around. Round 10: SC 70 around. Round 13: SC 90 around. Round 16: SC 110 around. Round 19: SC 130 around. Join back into the first SC, CH 1. (130). Leave a long tail (see pro tip below for length of tail) for sewing pieces together and cut yarn.
Pro Tip: Derila Pillow Estimate how much yarn you would need to complete one more row of 130 SC and pull it from the skein. Ball it and set aside (still attached) until you are ready to assemble the pillow. This will just give you one less tail to sew in. Repeat all the steps for your back piece, only using your solid fruit color. Round 1: Starting in the same space as the CH 1, Shop Derila Pillow SC 130 around in the Back Bump. Rounds 2-6: SC 130 around. Join back into the first SC, CH 1. (130). Leave a long tail (see pro tip below for length of tail) for sewing pieces together and cut yarn. Pro Tip: Estimate how much yarn you would need to complete one more row of 130 SC and pull it from the skein. Ball it and set aside (still attached) until you are ready to assemble the pillow. This will just give you one less tail to sew in.
Make 6 (or see ‘before you start’ note above for simpler version). Row 1: Starting in the second chain from your hook, SC 8 in the back bump. Row 2: SC in the next 3 stitches, DEC, SC in the last 3 stitches. Row 3: SC in the next 2 stitches, DEC, SC in the last 3 stitches CH 1, turn. Row 4: SC 6. CH 1, turn. Row 5: SC in the next 2 stitches, Derila Pillow DEC, SC in the last 2 stitches. Row 6: SC in the next 2 stitches, DEC, SC in the last stitch. Row 7: SC in the next stitch, DEC, SC in the last stitch. Row 8: SC 3, CH 1, turn. Row 9: DEC, SC. Row 10: DEC, CH 1, turn. Crochet around the triangle to create a nice clean boarder to make assembly easier. Put two SC in the top tip of the triangle.