FLOWER PROJECT UPDATE

If you remember the flowers I made a while back for the knit flower project that Molly was doing for her thesis, she made all the displays and had the reception recently. She gave permission to use her pic's so here are a few.

Knitted Flower Project

So here are my finished flowers for The Knitted Flower Project.  I made them all out of my scrap bag of cotton yarn ( Peaches N Creme, Sugar N Creme, Lion Cotton etc)  mostly leftovers from various dishcloth projects.  I did notice in a few of the pictures that had been posted that the flowers were kinda floppy like and I wanted mine to be more structured and shaped.  So I used size 4 needles (metal yeah really) as I am a tight knitter to begin with ( I almost always have to go up a needle size to achieve gauge) I created a very stiff fabric that stands up.  The orange/yellow, yellow white/green, pink/white center were created because I ran out of the little bit I was using and added another piece.  I think my favorite is the yellow, white and green.  I like the green where it would attach to a stem. I have to stop by Mara's this week  to pick up a package of coffee to complete my valentine's day swap which is supposed to be mailed out by Thursday, so I will mail out my flowers at the same time.  

Happy Knitting!

Knitted Flower Project

My friend Catherine from Ohio had this on her blog this morning. Her friend Molly is going for her master's and for her thesis she is doing the knitted flower project and needs volunteers to knit a flower ( really an easy pattern and only uses 15 yards of yarns so you can use some of those little scraps we all seem to acquire ) and if you want but not necessary go on the blog and discuss kniitting habits etc. check out the blog. I'm gong to knock off a few flowers for her.