Yes, yes yes, it’s yet another flower puff cushion. But this time it’s all for me! Once again, the majority of the yarns used here were from my stash; although I did have to purchase a little more white for the background, and one or two balls of red were recent additions found in charity shops. (I can never resist a 25p ball of bright vintage wool.)
I’m enjoying the regularity of the colour pattern on this cushion, which is the largest flower puff cushion that I’ve made yet – 25 squares instead of 16. However I’m mixing things up a little in teaching myself a new crochet stitch pattern: ripple stitch.
This will form the back of the cushion, using up the last scraps of red, navy and white in a random stripe pattern. It looks very 1970s to my mind, and I’m pretty pleased with the results so far! It took me a little while to get my head around the instructions for this stitch pattern – I’ve been discovering, as I learn more and more crochet techniques, that I need to slightly re-word or re-write the directions in order to make sense of them. Crochet hasn’t benefitted so well in the modernising and changing of image that knitting and other crafts have.
-Anushka
super funky! I like it!
thea.
xx
Cheers, thank you!
So beautiful! I must say I have never really understood crochet, simply because I think my mind is set to knitting mode. But I think I really could learn to do it. Those colours are so juicy, I love the red.
I agree, it has taken me so many attempts to get into crochet. However one insomniac night was all it took in the end! It is so much easier than it seems at first.