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This crochet leaf bookmark takes just minutes to make and once you have the basics of how to crochet a leaf down you can make them in lots of different ways.
Materials
You can use any weight of yarn and corresponding crochet hook to make your crochet leaf bookmark.
My first one was done with green embroidery floss on a size B/1/2.5 mm hook. The other two are worsted weight yarn and used a size 7/4.5 mm hook.
The green one I am pretty sure is Spud & Chloe Sweater, a worsted weight wool and cotton blend. If that’s the case, this color was called Grass and I used 8 yards for the bookmark shown.
The blue one is Lion Brand Heartland in color Congaree. That’s a worsted weight acrylic and I used a little more than 5 yards.
In addition to yarn and a hook you’ll need a pair of scissors and a yarn needle for weaving in ends.
Size
The leaves on the larger crochet leaf bookmarks are about 2 inches/5 cm long. You can make the chain part as long as you’d like your bookmark to be. The green one is about 12 inches/30.5 cm not counting the leaf, while the blue one is about 7 inches/17.78 cm excluding the leaf.
The embroidery floss one’s leaf is not quite an inch/2.5 cm, and the chain is about 8.5 inches/21.59 cm.
You can adjust the length of the chain to make it longer or shorter and play with the stitches on the leaf to make it bigger or smaller.
Crochet Leaf Bookmark Overview
What we’re doing here doesn’t really need a pattern but the idea is that the leaf shape is built on a chain that is the length of the number of stitches you want to put into one side of the leaf, plus one.
The leaf gets its shape by the combination of different heights of stitches across the row. To make a very small leaf, you could just use single crochet and half double crochet. My bigger leaves use single, half double, double and treble crochets (in American terms) and the leaves are symmetrical.
Once you’ve worked one side you’ll turn and work the same stitches down the other side of the chain, then slip stitch at the bottom and chain your desired length for the part that goes inside the book to make it a bookmark.
I worked single crochets up one side of the chain back to the leaf, did another slip stitch and fastened off. If you want a wider bookmark you could also work stitches down the other side of the chain, and/or use bigger stitches.
This project is mildly addicting and I definitely want to try different leaf shapes, so I could also try a different approach to the bookmark part. Feel free to experiment; I’d love to know what you come up with!
Bookmark Crochet Pattern
This crochet leaf bookmark tutorial uses the blue yarn, but the blue and green ones are the same (and we’ll talk about how the tiny one is different in a minute).
Start with a slip knot and chain 10.
Begin with a single crochet in the chain next to the hook.
Work a half double crochet in the next chain.
Make a double crochet in the next chain.
Work a treble crochet in each of the next 3 chains.
Finish the row with a double crochet, half double crochet and single crochet.
Turn so you can work down the other side of the chain and repeat. In crochet short hand that would be sc, hdc, dc, 3 td, dc hdc, sc.
Work a slip stitch at the bottom of the leaf to join the sides.
From here, work a chain as long as you like for the bookmark portion of the bookmark. The blue one is 36 chains, while the green one is 50.
In both cases I then turned and worked a single crochet in each chain back up to the base of the leaf.
Work another slip stitch in the base of the leaf.
Cut yarn and fasten off the last stitch.
Weave in ends on the back of the bookmark and trim excess.
Embroidery Floss Bookmark
I actually made this bookmark with embroidery floss first because crocheting with embroidery floss is so fun. This one is really dainty and I would be prone to losing it, but it’s also really cute so I thought I’d share it, too.
This one starts with a chain 7. Work a single crochet, a half double, 2 doubles, another half double and a single.
Turn the work and repeat down the other side of the chain. That’s sc, hdc, 2 dc, hdc, sc in shorthand.
Work a slip stitch at the bottom of the leaf and chain to your desired length. This one is 60 and I didn’t single crochet back up the side, I just left it as the chain.
I hope you’ll try this crochet leaf bookmark pattern or make your own variation! It’s a fun way to use a bit of yarn and once you start playing with crocheted leaves you’ll probably want to use them in lots of different ways.
