This week I am switching up my crafting and presenting my latest crochet endeavor to you. I needed some decoration for my craft sale on May 5th and really didn’t have anything around that would do.
All of my booth and table decorations are geared toward Christmas as I normally only do sales at that season. Etsy, Made in Canada, is now promoting year round local sales with three, one each in spring, fall and winter. Robyn (aka DD1) made a string of crocheted Christmas lights last year that really looked great draped along the front of our table. She suggested doing something similar in a spring theme, so the idea of a flower garland was born.
I love to simply crochet, to heck with a pattern, when I am making three dimensional things. I have made many flower decorations for baby hats, so I am quite confident in basic flower design. If you are not comfortable winging it and want to create some loveliness for home, I highly recommend the Mypicot website. For a one time fee, you can download hundreds of stitch patterns including booklets of flower and leaf designs.
Back to my flowers, I made these in the evenings by trial and error, lots of error, and am really pleased with the final design. I crocheted a double yarn chain and joined all of the flowers, varying size and colour of both flowers and leaves.
I am very happy with the finished garland. It is more than I imagined; don’t you love it when that happens! I have a few extras that I am going to leave as individual with leaves attached for scattered adornment, maybe with wired stems.
I have been sweating over my knitting machine as well and have another almost sewn up yoked sweater done. I will post that photo next week after it is blocked. Now I just need to settle on a hand knit project! I have kind of hit a creative blank so having the garland turn out well is a big morale boost for me.
Happy crafting and may all of your yarn be untangled and all of your work come together beautifully!