Flowers!

Hi Guys!

I have to share with you my enthusiasm for a newfound hobby. Yay! :-)

I've been eyeballing these flowers for some weeks wanting to learn how to make them and finally

got the chance thanks to a new blogging buddy, Melissa from "inklinations"

You have to check her blog out, she does fab work and she has tutorials like this one that I used to make these flowers

So you can use anything: yarn, floss, hardanger thread etc, depending on what effect you're going for.

I used these. (below) the ball and the twisted skein is hardanger floss. It doesn't separate and is shinier than embroidery floss. Both come in tons of colors and you can get them at Jo Ann's, Michaels, etc. 

(I happened to have bags of the stuff from a previous hobby spree...*blush*)

So I made some double flowers and some singles and some in between (cos I'm not too good at reading directions!) lol

And for those who are looking at them and thinking they're too time consuming they're really not.

One flower takes at most 15 minutes. In fact, my FIRST flower took less than 15 minutes, so go for it!

I'm thinking they'd make good blogcandy for an upcoming blogaversary what do you think??

You can also find lots of free patterns on the web if you just search "free crochet patterns". Most are really the same with different names but some are truly unusual.

Have fun!