Blooming

It is time for lunch, and for two hours straight I have been knitting flowers and searching the web for more knit flowers. Cleaning out a closet I found a bag of old yarn samples that I would really like to make something out of - and the colourful pieces of yarn seems perfect for flowers. As before my "small project" tends to grow, and I am toying with the idea of sewing together all the little flowers to make an afghan.

But so far I have only covered the palm of my hand, and I need to get back to house cleaning. I leave you with a few links to free flower patterns, and one pattern of my own:

Use any yarn and needles, I prefer one DPN per petal.

Knit with both tails to avoid sewing in more ends than necessary.
Cast on 3 stitches. Knit stockinette with increases both sides of every knit row until 9 stitches. Break yarn, leaving stitches live on the needle.

Knit more petals like the first one, I prefer to put each of them on a separate DPN for easier assembly, but you might well keep all petals on one straight og circular needle.

Knit two together over all stitces/all petals, (in the round to avoid seaming, letting petal yarn ends follow the new yarn weaves them in). Break yarn and pull it through all live stitches, fasten.