Knit a Bouquet of Flowers

If you’re feeling impatient for real flowers to bloom, you can always knit your own! This collection of flower knitting patterns will bring color into your home that never fades. They make great gifts or decorations for gift bags, too.

This sweet little daisy from Linda Dawkins is easy to knit in DK weight yarn, and you could make them in lots of different colors to be different kinds of flowers if you want. The pattern is on Ravelry, and she also has an ebook of knit flowers if you’re looking for a bunch of different designs.

Daffodils are so cheerful, and this pattern from Love Fibres on Etsy shows you how to make a bunch that will look great throughout the season. These are made with DK weight yarn and you can use wire in the stem so they will stand up, or make a bloom and use it as a brooch.

Loani Prior has a really pretty rose knitting pattern that’s worked in stockinette in individual petals so you can make each rose look different. I love the idea of making a bouquet for a wedding or other special event.

Cathy Ren’s calla lily pattern, available on Ravelry, would be another fun one to stitch into a bouquet. Use DK or light worsted weight yarn and a chopstick or skewer in the stem.

A simple sunflower is one of the happiest flowers around, and you can stitch one for your desk or anywhere else that needs a little brightening up with this pattern from Liana OCF. It also calls for DK weight yarn and uses wooden skewers to hold it upright.

If you want to make a flower to wear as a pin or decorate a knitting project, this one from Little Pretty Boutiqu is a nice one. Use different yarn weights to make different sizes and decorate all sorts of projects, gifts or make a garland.

You can also knit a whole pot of flowers that will never wilt. Check out this pattern from iKnit Designs, which can use up all your leftover DK weight yarn as you stitch flowers of different colors.

Looking for more knit flower patterns? Check out this collection of knit flowers!

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Blankets are a great blank slate project that you can change up in a million different ways. From color to stitch pattern to size, the possibilities are almost endless.

Jared Flood, the designer behind Brooklyn Tweed, was inspired by a log cabin quilt his mother made in 1995 to re-create that design in knitting, which led to more blankets and ultimate Brooklyn Tweed’s Knit and Crochet Blankets, which includes 25 patterns from an array of designers using different skills and techniques to make cozy, pretty blankets.

The patterns are divided into three aesthetic themes: traditions, minimalism and colorplay. The patterns are rated on a scale of one to five, with one being the easiest, and there aren’t any pieces rated five. Two blankets are rated one, 14 are two, eight are three and one is four.

In addition, three of the 25 patterns are crocheted, but they either use single crochet or granny stitch, so they are pretty easy even if you don’t do a lot of crochet. You can see all the patterns on Ravelry.

Some of my favorites include Rattan by Rastus Hsu, a chunky blanket worked in knits and purls with simple crossing stitches to make a raised woven look; Homewood by Seth Richardson, covers in dramatic, loopy cables; Ainur Berkimbayeva’s Tessellate, one of the beginner projects that doesn’t really look beginner but is totally worked in knit and purl stitches; Warp + Weft by Aist? Butkevi?ien?, which is mostly knits and purls but makes a fun woven look fabric that blew my mind a little bit; and the same designer’s Canyonland, a multicolored blanket with wavy stripes.

The patterns tell you how to resize them for different dimensions and include information on pattern repeats where it is possible to make a totally custom size.

Many different techniques are included here such as cables, lace, shadow knitting, intarsia and other colorwork techniques, as well as modular knitting and lots of sewing pieces together. The patterns are all presented with charts, but there are line by line written instructions available on the Brooklyn Tweed website if you need them.

The book ends with a deep dive into log cabin knitting, telling the story of the quilt Jared’s mom made and how he made it in knitting, as well as the multitude of variations you can make if you want your own log cabin style design.

The back of the book includes a little written information about some of the special techniques needed, but there are no photos.

This is a lovely book full of inspiration for knitting and crochet blankets for any skill level. If you like to make blankets as gifts or aspire to have a handmade blanket in every room of the house, these designs would be a great place to start.

About the book: 192 pages, paperback, 25 patterns. Published 2024 by Abrams Books, suggested retail price $24.99.

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