EMBELLISH AN OUTFIT
Bring spring-time colour into your wardrobe with oral wheel motifs to sew on your clothes. By Louise Smith.
Appliquéd flowers are everywhere, but – and we might be just a teeny bit biased – we haven’t seen any as beautiful as these. Switch up last year’s sweater with your unique take on the floral trend. But don’t stop there... we’re seeing lapels and jacket hems bursting with zingy, flowery joy this spring!
NOTE
Make two flowers in each colourway for eight flowers in total.
FLOWER MOTIF
Using Round throughout), join. Round [5 Yarn dc] 1 2 Ch1 Ch1, A, 5dc (does make work into 2 not a puff magic loop, count sts ss loop. in as to each st first dc dc to around, [10 puff sts] ss to top of first puff st, fasten off.
Round 3 Join Yarn B in sp between first 2 puff sts, working in spaces between puff stitches; ch3 (counts as tr), 4tr in same sp, *skip next sp, 5tr in next sp; repeat from * three more times, ss in top of beginning ch-3, fasten off. [5 fans]
Round 4 Join Yarn C in fl of first tr, ch1, ss in fl of each of next 4 tr, ss in next sp between puff sts on Round 2, *ss in fl of each of next 5 tr, ss in next sp between puff sts on Round 2; repeat from * three more times, ss to ch-1 to join.
Round 5 Working into bl of sts from Round 3 throughout this round, join Yarn D in first st, ch3 (counts as tr), tr into st at base of ch-3, 2tr in each of next 4 tr, ss in ss between puff sts, *2tr in each of next 5 tr, ss in ss between puff sts; repeat from * three more times, ss in top of beg ch-3. [50 tr]
Fasten off and weave in ends.
TO FINISH
Lay jumper flat. Pin four flowers to each sleeve, using image as a guide if needed. Once happy with position, sew each flower in place using matching thread or yarn.