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Portrait Sunday… Agapanthus Everywhere…

I am so enjoying our garden at the moment… our Agapanthus flowers are in full bloom right now…  They come up each year around this time, but have never given such a beautiful show…  Earlier this year, we dug them up and divided them as they had grown and multiplied into great clumps. It was worth all the hard work because now they are all flowering at once. They are such beautiful flowers, indigenous to South Africa, their perfect symmetry is amazing and wonderful to gaze at… I love to sit in a shady spot on the grass outside and knit and be inspired by this beauty of Mother Nature…

Even Charlie was enjoying being outdoors today…
xo
Linda

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Knitted Snowdrop Inspired Flower Tutorial

I have been thinking about knitting flowers for quite a while, so yesterday I decided it was time to start. I love Snowdrops and they were the inspiration for this flower. I am so happy to share this pattern with all of you today. Often when I look at animals, plants and birds, I study their shape and see them as a pattern with stitches, rows, increases and decreases and then I cannot wait to create a pattern and bring a new little knitted treasure into reality:)
Enjoy this tutorial dear friends…

Materials:
2 double pointed needles
Circular needles
merino yarn, green and beige
green fleece or roving
felting needle
Pattern:

Flower Blossom: (The flower is knitted with the magic loop technique)
Cast on 12 stitches and join in the round.
Knit 1 round.
Round 2: Knit into the front and back of each stitch, now you have 24 stitches.
Round 3 to 10: Knit
Round 11: Knit 4 stitches, turn work, purl 4 stitches turn work, knit 4 stitches, turn,purl 2 together, purl 2 together, turn work, knit 2 tog.
You have completed one petal, cast off this 1 stitch and break yarn. Now attach your yarn to the stitches still on your circular needle and repeat the above process another 5 times for the other 5 petals:)

Stem:

You will be knitting the stem as an I-Cord
With double pointed needles, cast on 5 stitches.
Knit the I-Cord until it is 7 inches long.
Now just knit straight for 1 inche in plain and purl stitch alternating the rows. (Your leaf)
Cast off 1 stitch on each side of the plain (garter) row.
Purl 1 row
Cast off 1 stitch on each side and continue doing this on each row until you have 1 stitch, bind off.

Sew in all your ends and sew up the opening of the flower at its base.
At the opening of the leaf pick up 3 stitches with your double pointed needle and knit a short I-Cord just over an inch long.
Cast off.
With your green roving and felting needle, add little green spots to your flower blossom.
Fill your stem with white roving to make it firm.
Fill your short I-Cord too.
Now your stem and flower are finished, the ends have all been sewn in and the green spots have been applied.
Sew your blossom onto the stem. Once you have done this you can needlefelt with green roving around the base of the flower.
And there is your finished Snowdrop inspired blossom… enjoy!
Have a wonderful Sunday everyone….
Warmly
Linda

Please note, this pattern is for personal use only, and not for resale, items knitted from this pattern may not be sold for commercial purposes, thank you.

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