Knit a Field of Flowers in Your Knitting Projects

I know it’s said April showers bring May flowers, but we already have plenty of flowers in bloom where I live, and it’s got me in the mood to knit some projects with flowers on them. Or at least talk about knitting projects with flowers on them, LOL. Let’s take a look.

I love the bold, folk art flowers on the Harvest Flowers Sweater from Jessie Mead Designs. This project uses DK weight yarn and comes in nine sizes, with a fit range of 28 to 60 inches, or 71 to 152.5 cm. There’s 6-8 inches (15-20.5 cm) of ease built into the pattern, so the actual smallest finished circumference is 36 inches/91.5 cm. It uses four colors of yarn and has two chart options. The charts indicate where you should catch the long floats, which is super helpful for those with less colorwork knitting experience. Get the pattern on Ravelry.

Another pretty floral sweater is the appropriately named Rosie Sweater from LE KNIT by Lene Holme Samsøe. This one uses a lace and a fingering weight yarn held together to make a DK weight (you could also just use a DK weight if you don’t want to use a mohair carryalong). It has six size options, with an actual chest circumference ranging from 40.5 to 63 inches, or 103 to 160 cm. It’s meant to have 7.75 to 12.25 inches, or 20-32 cm of positive ease. This one is also on Ravelry.

Maybe you don’t feel like knitting a giant sweater right now (I know I don’t!). So how about a pretty floral cowl instead? This one, by Daphne Knits, is called the spring cowl, though you could make the flowers a different color if you want it to look a little less spring. You can make the pattern as a cowl, a double loop, a triple loop or a scarf. Either way it uses three colors of sock yarn and features a pretty lace edging.

I also love this floral patchwork knit blanket from Yarnspirations. The Meadow Mosaic Knit Blanket calls for seven colors of super bulky yarn, but you can use as many or as few as you like. The flowers are actually worked in duplicate stitch so this is an easy knit (but admittedly has a lot of finishing work). If you wanted to make a little less work, make the squares in panels instead of knitting each one individually, and don’t put flowers on all the patches.

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I guess the trend of little scarves and bandanas isn’t going away, and there’s a good reason for that. These little projects are fast, and they’re good for beginners because of the low commitment and they make something that doesn’t necessarily look like a beginner made it.

And when you can combine a simple pattern with some super luxurious yarn, it’s a little treat that even more experienced knitters can get behind.

The Little Dot Bandana from Purl Soho (designed by Gianna Mueller) is a project like that. It’s a simple eyelet triangle, worked from the long side down to the point, so there’s a lot of decreasing happening but it’s a really easy project.

It calls for a hank of silk yarn and one that’s silk mohair, which gives the project a fuzziness and a little bit of a silky glow.

Of course you can use different yarn to get a different look. A linen yarn would be fun for a summer kerchief, or combine wool and mohair for a warm and cozy kerchief for cold mornings.

The pattern comes in two sizes, so you can stitch up a kerchief or a simple triangle shawl. The stitch multiple is 8 plus 23 stitches, so you can use that to make a triangle of any size you like, or you can use a heavier weight of yarn to make a different size if you prefer. The two strands held together as called for in the pattern makes a sport weight gauge, so you could try DK or worsted for a bigger and warmer project if you want.

This pattern is available for free from Purl Soho, or check out the pattern notes on Ravelry to find how other people made this project.

And if you need more options for kerchiefs to knit, check out this collection of kerchief knitting patterns.

[Photo: Purl Soho]

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