Mini Rainbow Pride Flag | Free Crochet Pattern

Mini Rainbow Pride Flag Free Crochet Pattern – Beginner Friendly

This mini rainbow Pride flag pattern is the second of fifteen flags celebrating the diversity of the LGBTQ+ community. The rainbow flag is my chosen Pride flag – it’s the flag I identify with most. I get excited when I see companies making rainbow stuff but I don’t think the rainbow flag should be used exclusively. The first four flags will be the four most common iterations of the rainbow flag. The first was the original 1978 version and today will be the most commonly used six-stripe rainbow.

The first iteration of the Pride flag featured eight colors – the six we know today plus hot pink and turquoise. The idea behind the flag was that each color represented an element of everyone’s life. Pink for sex, red for life, orange for healing, yellow for sun, green for nature, cyan for art and magic, blue for serenity and purple for spirit. According to a video interview with Gilbert Baker, who passed away in 2017, the original eight stripe flag was changed into the six stripe flag we know today as a compromise.

The original flag was hand dyed (a big DIY mood for sure) but Baker says pink was not a color offered in the limited selection of most flag making companies and so producing the flag with the pink stripe became difficult. The removal of the less common colors of pink and turquoise is what led to the six-stripe flag we are all familiar with today. And the sentiment from Baker was that it didn’t matter if there were six or 60 colors, the idea was that all the rainbow represented all colors, the whole spectrum, and so it represented everyone. And I really liked this quote from the interview, which is linked below:

What hasn’t changed is a thread that runs through every gay life, every LGBT person, is that we all have a moment in our lives where we come out to ourselves, where all the sudden you’re true to yourself. I’m gay. Or I’m lesbian. And that moment is what connects us through all the generations and all of our different stories and that’s the thread of the rainbow flag. That single moment when individuals claim their own truth is true power. -Gilbert Baker

Source:  video interview with Gilbert Baker, NBC News, 2016

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SUPPLIES
3.75mm (F) hook
Yarn needle (for weaving in ends)
4 medium worsted weight yarn, a small amount in the following colors: Purple, Blue, Green, Yellow, Orange and Red (I used mostly Red Heart Super Saver Solids)

COMPLETED PROJECT SIZE/GAUGE
Flag size is approximately 4 x 5.5 inches. My gauge: 2 x 2 inch square = 10 rows of 9 stitches.

NOTES
This pattern uses only single crochet and is worked in rows from the bottom up. It calls for a single crochet chainless foundation row only because it is how I made my samples. The pattern is not adjusted for the slightly larger foundation row, meaning your stripes may not be perfectly even. If your preferred beginning method is a chain, substitute this for Row 1: ch 25, turn, sc 24 across beginning in second chain from hook, ch 1, turn. (24 sc)

LET’S CROCHET! 
Row 1: (purple) Foundation sc 24, ch 1, turn [24 st]
Row 2-3: (purple) Sc 24 st across, ch 1, turn [24 st]
Row 4-6: (blue) sc 24 st across, ch 1, turn [24 st]
Row 7-9: (green) sc 24 across, ch 1, turn [24 st]
Row 10-12: (yellow) sc 24 across, ch 1, turn [24 st]
Row 13-15: (orange) sc 24 across, ch 1, turn [24 st]
Row 16-18 (red) sc 24 across, ch 1, turn [24 st]
Finish and fasten off. Weave in ends.

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