Once I had given my elbow a rest, and finished a couple of other knitting projects, I got back to my Wallflowers. For the next step I had to make 50 popcorns using two of my leaf colors. Once again I did them in production fashion, Working all 50 of the first round, and then working the second round. Working the last two rounds and joining them to the blanket took a couple of nights. I printed out the schematic that showed their placement and crossed them off as I joined them. As you can see, Jezebel approves.
Here they are in progress. You can see the first round rings on the right, and the second round popcorns on the left.
And here they are all finished, neatly lined up in five columns of ten.
It is so hard to get a good photo of the blanket.
The next step are the dark flowers that go in the corners. I am making good progress on those, working them once again in a production fashion. There are only 12 of these, 4 in one colorway and 8 in another colorway. I did not get a picture until I had already started on the fourth round.
But you can see the two different colorways.
And here I have finished the fourth round on the 4 to the right, and have started the fourth round on the 8 to the left.
And here they all are with their fifth rounds completed. They use the same colors, but in different order. At this point I have woven in all of the ends except the ones for the fifth round. I like to wait until I have worked at least the next round just in case I made a mistake. I did actually make a mistake on the third round on one of them and had to rip back and fix it. Fortunately I leave a pretty good tail and it was just one double crochet that I was missing.
Pattern: Wallflowers by Sue Maton
Yarn: Rowan Felted Tweed DK
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