Friday 11 September 2015

My Crochet Diary - Country Flowers



In my first crochet diary I thought I had shown you all the crochet books that I own. But then I remembered that I have two other books, which I think of as knitting books, as I had only used the knitting halves of them.  The 100 Flowers to Knit and Crochet by Lesley Stanfield, is the book that enthused me into resuming knitting, after not doing it for a few years. And the 75 Birds, Butterflies and Beautiful Beasties was one of my leaving gifts when I moved jobs. Although I have knitted quite a lot of the projects, the crochet sections of both books had been completely ignored.
 
These Hellebores took several attempts

The 100 Flowers book divides the patterns in Basic, Intermediate, and Advanced. So far I have manly stuck to basic, and still have to sit with my other book open to remind myself on how to do some of the stitches. Annoyingly most of my favourites are in the intermediate and advanced sections of the book, but hopefully I will get to some of them in time.
 
Lazy Daisy and Flared Rose

These two both have errors if you looks closely. I spiralled the rose the wrong way, and the daisy is one petal short.

Forget-me-notes and Primrose

I really like these ones, perhaps because they are some of my favourite flowers in nature, and the primrose has a 3-D quality.
 
Mistletoe

I thought it would be really fun to make a bunch of these to hang up at Christmas.
 
Cloverleaf

This cloverleaf was made in a hotel room in Bruges. I thought maybe I could crochet on the train, but this was just too hard.
 
Narcissus is the only one I have managed to make from intermediates.

I love these projects - partly because they are small, so not too daunting. I'm not quite sure what I will do with all these little flowers and leaves. I definitely think I am getting past the fear stage of learning - particularly of the diagrams. So I may be working myself up towards a granny square.

22 comments:

  1. Your flowers are very beautiful!
    I also have the two books and I like them!

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  2. The books by Lesley Stanfield are beautiful. There's some lovely projects in them. You are making excellent progress with your crocheting and I'm sure you'll be working the intermediate projects soon.

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  3. Lovely, your crocheting is great! looking forward to seeing what wonderful crocheted things you'll come up with! thanks for sharing on craft schooling Sunday!

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  4. your'e doing a stunning job with your crochet :)
    I also have the flower book
    mistakes are all a learning curve, but you've made some fabulous flowers xx
    I look forward to seeing what you tackle next x

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  5. Crochet and flowers just go together so perfectly - like they were made for one another! I love your mistletoe, I fancy making a bunch of that for our house too.

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  6. What fun books, you're making progress fast! x

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  7. Hey, you're coming along GREAT with the crocheting!! Don't sweat it. - And BTW, *most* daisies are a petal-"short"! - [they story of my "love-life" or LACK thereof!]
    ;-D

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  8. Lovely flowers! I recently bought the flowers book and have had fun making some of the crochet flowers but I never realised theres also a butterfly and bird book. Im going to try and find it online to buy right now!

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  9. So pretty and love your books, I have a book addiction can never have enough

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  10. Lovely flowers! I recently bought the flowers book and have had fun making some of the crochet flowers but I never realised theres also a butterfly and bird book. Im going to try and find it online to buy right now!

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  11. Great looking flowers. I have that book but have never attempted anything yet!

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  12. These are so sweet and lovely! My favorite is the Forget-me-nots and the Daisy. I say crochet more :)

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  13. They are all adorable! they're so delicate and life like too - have you got a plan for them or are you just enjoying them? They'd look lovely as a sort of daisy chain bunting ...!

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  14. Oh well done, they are all lovely and mistakes are design features!

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  15. So pretty, I love crochet flowers :)

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  16. This inspires me to try crocheting flowers again. I used the book you've mentioned above, 100 Flowers to Knit and Crochet, but I struggled. I think I was too ambitious - trying too difficult for me patterns, or maybe I just wasn't concentrating. But I do want to give it another go. BTW, those little white daisy's in your sidebar look perfect! I think I want to make some of those!

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  17. Found on HOHD! Love these flowers! Simply beautiful!!

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  18. Love your flowers. They are so pretty. They would make a lovely garland or flower crown {www.hedgerowharvest.com/blog}

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  19. You have produced some beautiful crochet flowers. Thank you for sharing with the Clever Chicks Blog Hop! I hope you’ll join us again next week!

    Cheers,
    Kathy Shea Mormino
    The Chicken Chick
    http://www.The-Chicken-Chick.com

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  20. I have the birds and butterfy book. I've not made anything from it yet and I really must give it ago. You have a lovely collection. Look forward to seeing what you dream up to do with them all.

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  21. They are lovely flowers, I borrowed the 75 birds and butterflies one from the library but couldn't muster the courage to try any of them.

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