Crocheting Flowers

At the end of the day after a busy day visiting museums I practice crocheting flowers. There are so many designs online, but I went with the one from Mom of 5 daughters site How to crochet flowers.  In addition to the videos, Mom of 5 daughters typed out the instructions making it much easier for me to take with me.

My first attempt came out very nice but with nine petals instead of eight petals, I only did two layers instead of three believe me when I say it was not intentional. My second attempt was much better with the right amount of petals and all three levels.

Ist Attempt with 1 extra petal on the bottom

2nd attempt