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How To Knit Flowers – Flower Knitting Patterns

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This is the time of year for flowers in the northern part of the world at least, but it’s always a good time to knit flowers to enjoy when the weather doesn’t cooperate with the real ones. I picked these fun flower knitting patterns just for you from Etsy.

Oh May DIY has tons of beautiful flower knitting patterns, including a hibiscus, peony and rose.

This hyacinth pattern from Nimble Needlez looks a bit like you could leave off the flowers and have a cute little cactus pattern as well.

Love Fibres has a really cute daffodil pattern that will have you dreaming of spring. Or try this sweet snowdrop knitting pattern from Mamma 4 Earth.

Or if you just want all the colorful flowers all in one place, try this knit floral wreath from iKnit Designs. It’s a great stash buster covered in flowers, leaves, butterflies and ladybugs. So fun!

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Make Your Knitting Machine Scarves Better

I feel like it’s been a while since I’ve shared any patterns for our circular knitting machine users. I know these devices aren’t for everyone but even though I much prefer knitting by hand, it is kind of fun to crank things out on these machines.

One of the most common early projects for a circular knitting machine is a scarf. Which makes sense, because it’s just one long tube and you can make it as long as you like.

One problem that comes from knitting scarves on the circular knitting machine, though, is that it can be hard to know how to finish the ends of the tube so that it looks like a finished scarf and not a tube of knitting.

If you’re not a knitter or crocheter, the most basic way to finish a circular knitting machine scarf is just by cinching up the ends and maybe adding a pompom to each end to cover up any hole that might still be visible at the end.

But if you have a little knitting or crochet skill or are willing to learn, there are a lot of different options for closing up the ends of a scarf. And this would also be true if you hand knit a tube scarf!

I recently wrote a post over at Our Daily Craft that includes five different ways to close up the ends of a tube scarf:

  • the simple cinching method mentioned above
  • sewing the stitches together
  • three needle bind off
  • grafting
  • crochet bind off

Grafting is my favorite because I feel like it gives the cleanest, closest to a seamless look. If you’re a knitter you may already know how to do it but even if you don’t it’s not that hard to learn.

Do you knit tube scarves by hand or machine? I’d love to know how you like to finish them!