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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Just about anything you can make in fabric you can make in knitting, but there are some styles that you just don’t see that often translated into knitting.

For example, a button down collared shirt. This is a classic design, of course, and it looks great in a knit version, but it’s just not something you see much of.

Noma Ndlovu’s Guglethu shirt is the pattern to try if you want to knit your own button down shirt. This one is inspired by cashmere tops (though the sample was made out of yak yarn, not cashmere, and uses two strands of lace weight yarn held together) and includes lots of high-fashion details like double-knit cuffs, collar and shoulder seams.

It has a patch pocket on the front and 10 buttons including the button band and the cuffs.

The designer says you can also use a DK weight yarn held singly if you’d rather, and that the shirt looks good in a variety of yarns. There is another version on Ravelry that uses Berroco Remix Light, which is a mix of nylon, cotton, acrylic, silk and cellulose fibers. It has a more relaxed look but it still really pretty.

The pattern has 12 sizes, with a full bust measurement ranging from 32.35 to 72.25 inches, or 82 to 183.5 cm. The designer suggests 2 to 6 inches, or 5 to 15 cm, of positive ease when you pick your size. I could totally see knitting one that’s even bigger to wear more like a jacket, because I do that a lot with button down shirts I already own.

I love all the details on this shirt, which isn’t necessarily difficult to knit, but might introduce you to some things you’ve never knit before (like those cuffs with the plackets, or a shirt collar like this).

To learn more about this shirt and grab a copy of the pattern for yourself, head to Ravelry.

[Photo: Noma Ndlovu]

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