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Two-tone 8 metre flower to knit

I've just been experimenting, to see if I can knit a flower from

4m of yarn - I couldn't. So I adapted the pattern a bit, and came up with a way to knit a flower using two 4m lengths - I used up most of one length and had just under 2m of the other one.

I used double-knit cotton, which I cut to exactly 4m. I used 3 1/4mm needles - I think that's US size 3.

Make a slip knot in one length, and tie the other length to this. Using the thumb method and holding a different yarn in each hand, cast on 66 stitches. At the end, you shuld have all loops on the needle in one colour (yarn A), and the other colour (yarn B), as loops underneath the needle.

Row 1: With yarn A: purl. Row 2: With yarn A: K2 * K1, slip this stitch back to the left needle, and lift over the next 5 (unknitted) stitches, then pass this stitch back to the right needle, K2 *, repeat from * to end - 26 stitches Row 3: With yarn B: purl Row 4: With yarn B: K2 tog to end (13 stitches) Row 5: With yarn B: purl Row 6: With yarn B: K2, until the last stitch, K (7 stitches)

Thread the tail of yarn B through the sttches, and pull tight: use this tail to sew the yarn B rows into a circle, and finish off. Using the end of yarn A sew the yarn A rows to complete the flower shape, and neaten off all the ends.

Your flower should have an outer edge of yarn A, with an inner edge of yarn B, yarn A 'petals' and a yarn B inside.

If you want to copy this pattern to a website that's OK by me, as long as you say it was first posted on Rec.crafts.textiles.yarn

Reply to
Penny Gaines
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Thank you for sharing your pattern, Penny! :o)

Now if I can figure out how to cast on with thumbs instead of with needles, I'll give it a try. Meanwhile I've forwarded the pattern to my email for future reference.

My Aunt Lilly (my Dad's oldest sister) made some beautiful crocheted flowers (I loved the roses best), but when she gave me all her crochet patterns she couldn't find those patterns anywhere.

Gemini

Reply to
Matthew Hollands

"Penny Gaines" skrev i melding news: snipped-for-privacy@cube.gaines.biz...

Penny, this is late in the evening here, I (sleepy) went down to shut down the PC, but this is interresting!!! I wake up! LOL! I have saved this , and will try it! :-) AUD ;-))

Reply to
Aud

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Thanks! I'm very proud of it. This is the first knitting pattern I've designed: I've altered existing patterns, but never invented a new one. I did get the basic idea from a flower in a magazine, but I changed the number of petals, the size of the petals, and the lengths of the yarn.

Interestingly, although it used up less of yarn B, yarn B seemed to be the more dominant colour.

Reply to
Penny Gaines

Hi Penny,

Will we get to see a picture of it? It sounds lovely.

Hugs,

Nora

Reply to
norabalcer

Thank you for the "Penny" flower pattern. I'm saving it to try later but have a question about Row 6 - should that be K2 tog? Also, I would like to please know the diameter of your flower.

Reply to
Tante Jan

I haven't taken any photos of it yet, but I'll take one tomorrow.

Reply to
Penny Gaines

This sounds lovely Penny! I can't imagine being able to come up with a design from scratch.

Eimear

Reply to
emerald

Oh yes, of course it should: thank you for spotting that.

They're about 2.5 inches across - or 6.5cm seeing as I'm using metric lengths and metric needles :-).

Reply to
Penny Gaines

You could probably cast on with two needles, using just yarn B, and then change to yarn A for the first row: this would give you a one colour edge. If you kept the rest of the pattern ths same, yarn B would be very dominate (it is already the most noticeable colour). However, if you weren't using yarn A for casting on, you might then have enough of it to do rows 1 to 4 in A, and just the last two rows in B. That would probably give you a better balance of colours.

Of course there are lots of variations: you could do every row in a differnt colour - you might be able to use larger needles if you did. Or if you do use the thumb method of casting on, you could use yarn B to the first rows, and swop to yarn A for the centre.

Reply to
Penny Gaines

Well, I started with a flower design from a magazine, so it wasn't entirely from scratch. But I changed the number of petals, the number of stitches per petal, the number of rows and the number of colours so it I think it is sufficiently different to publish on the internet without breakng copyright laws.

Reply to
Penny Gaines

I've done another variation, using Sidar Country Style: this is a acrlyic/nylon/wool mix, and much stretchier then the cotton. I like this variation better, because the centre colour does not dominate so much.

The difference was in row 3: row 3: Purl with yarn *A*, but carry yarn B along the back, like Fair Isle.

Actually, I could have avoided having to carry yarn B if I had started the cast-on row in the middle of yarn B, rather then at the end. Or, if I had not carried yarn B on the back, I would have done row 4 in A as well.

Basically, most yarn is used up in the first row, and casting on. As you get closer to the centre of the flower, the yarn needed per row gets corresponding shorter.

The other factor would be how accurately the lengths were cut: if your partner was fairly generous, then you have more leeway over where to change colour, then if your partner was very exact.

Anyway, I finished today's variation in less then three-quarters of an hour, including the time taken to start and admire how it was going.

Now I'm going to need a use for lots of knitted flowers :-)..

Reply to
Penny Gaines

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get you started, and then there are all those hats you could knit, or scarves/shawls you could trim......:-)) Eimear

Reply to
emerald

That is a bit too wacky for me. I don't think I could go public wearing that. But another Idea comes to mind. Knit or crochet a simple bag and turn it into a one-of-a-kind bag by covering it with lots of "Penny" flowers in a myriad of colors.

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Tante Jan

I've seen crocheted flowers (and nylon stretched over wire flowers) attached to chenile stems, or florist wire stems, to make bouquets. They're everlasting flowers then and you don't have to remember to water them. ;o)

The crocheted flowers that my Aunt Lilly had made were attached to cushions that were sitting up on the back of her sofa.

Gem

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Matthew Hollands

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