a few birthday flowers
I would like to play now, please. Thank you.
Mom's birthday is way way too close to Christmas. I wanted to get her something nice and the menorah pillow was going to be hard to top. I couldn't think of anything neat store-bought, and mom's a sucker for the home-made variety of gift. She's also a sucker for anything that sparkles or shines. I 'borrowed' a bit of Andra's leftover silvery novelty yarn from her Hershey kiss hat, held that together with some leftover creamy cashmerino from the menorah pillow, and whipped out a flower-broach. Then came three more, all knit with stash yarn!
Pattern: Morning Star Flower from Handknit Holidays
Yarn: Clockwise from the top: Knitpicks Sock Garden in Hydrangea and Star Gazer Lily, Noro Cash Iroha in a discontinued berry color (the rest of which will someday be an hourglass sweater), and creamy white Debbie Bliss Cashmerino Aran combined with an unknown slivery novelty yarn.
Needles: Boye circulars, size 1 for the two multi-colored flowers, and size 7 for the white and berry flowers
Modifications: For the two flowers knit with sock yarn, I added a few more pattern repeats and rows so I didn't end up with little teeny miniature flowers.
