Mother's Day Daffodils

The finished daffodils in their new home

A couple of weeks ago the very lovely Lucy at Attic24 posted a blog entry about Crocheting Daffodils. Me being me, I couldn't stop at just one and decided to make a whole bunch as a Mother's Day present.


Hunting round in my stash of cheap 'n cheerful DK yarn, I came up with some cream, light yellow, bright yellow, burnt orange and green, which let me produce six variations: cream/light, cream/bright, light/light, light/bright, bright/bright and bright/orange.

The six variations and their leaves blocked and drying

Waiting for stems

 I made one of each variation with two leaves with each of three different hook sizes (3.25mm, 3.5mm & 4mm) giving me a total of 18 flowers and 36 leaves.I then created a stem by crocheting around a pipe cleaner (I'll do a separate post with details of how I did this) and sewed them together.

Partially finished

A finished daffodil

I had picked up a Mother's Day gift of three planters on a tray from Tesco and put six flowers into each. To stop them moving about so much I made a coaster from the green yarn, using a 5.5mm hook to give a loose tension, and Lucy's Flat Circle instructions, substituting trebles for her half treble stitches, and poked the stems through it.

The flat circle coaster. As you can see it is quite loose for the daffodil stems to poke through

To give them even more stability, I tried using florist's foam, but this didn't work as pipe cleaner + crochet was too thick, so initially left the flowers just held by the coaster inside the planter. My mum had the bright idea of using crumpled tissue paper in the bottom of the planter although I don't know how successful this would be as we didn't have any tissue paper.

Oh, and remember I am left-handed and Lucy's instructions are right-handed. I am therefore mentally mirroring the images she provides and working in a clockwise direction.