Poppies!
Hi, guys, I'm Kristen and Welcome to Studio Knit. In today's Knitted Flower
Series, we are knitting up POPPIES! These are really great embellishments, you can use
them as accessories on headbands, hats, pretty much anything you want to make cute, these
flowers will do the trick! And one of the things I love about this pattern, so we have
the four petals, and what makes it look like a poppy are the color choices but you can
totally make any sort of flower that you'd like just by switching up the color scheme
using this exact same pattern. So let's get started. You can use knitting needles in any
size you'd like for your yarn mine are size 7US, a tapestry needle, and yarn in any colors
of your choice. And we are going to begin by knitting up our petals, there are going
to be four total, of course we start with our slip knot and we are going to begin by
casting on seven stitches. So row one super simple we just knit the entire row, all seven
stitches right there. On row two, it is KFB, that means knit front and back, so we knitted
front and here we go into the back, let's try and stay in frame here. Where we had one
stitch now we have two, so that's an increase right there. And we're just going to quickly
knit until we get to the last two and that's one more KFB, so here we are we knit the front
and we come around and we also knit the back for an increase. And at the end we are going
to just knit one. And rows 3 and 4 are totally similar, those are going to increase all the
way up until we have 13 stitches on our needle. And of course the pattern is in the description
below and an instructions that you need on knitting, as well. Rows 5 through 8 all we
have to do is knit and here's how it's looking. And now it's time to decrease. So row 9 is
slip, slip, so you just keep it on your needle, and then we're going to knit, so I like to
kind of stretch it there using our left needle we go back into it, bring our yarn around,
and we knit. We're going to do that one more time, okay, so we slip, and we slip, and I
just help myself by stretching the yarn a little bit there and we knit into it. And
that is decreasing so where we had 4 stitches now we have two. And now we're going to knit
until we have 4 stitches and those four we're going to decrease by using the knit two together
method. We just knit those two together and one more we knit two together. And here is
how it's looking you can see how the decrease is helping to shape our petal. Rows 10, 11,
& 12 super simple, we're just going to knit and row 13 is a different sort of decrease
row, we're going to go all the way from the 9 stitches down to 5, so here we go. The first
is just to knit one, very simple, now we're going to slip one and keep it right there,
and we're going to knit these next two stitches together, so right here we just knit those
two together coming around, okay now here's where you want to pay attention, that slip
stitch, we're actually going to pass the slipped stitch over. PSSO. Pass Slipped Stitch Over.
And then that last one, we just knit now we only have 3 stitches and now we just bind
it off and we are done with our one little petal. Very simple. And we just sort of shape
it, because of how we knitted it, it has this really cool shape to it and we make four petals.
Then we just pair them up very cute, sort of romantic and taking our tapestry needle,
we just attach them, we just tack them together really easily with our yarn and our tapestry
needle and then with those two we just place one on top of the other and continue tacking
them together and there we go and now we're just going to on these sides here we're going
to sort of tack the sides together a little bit to keep it all together as one cohesive
flower and there we go. And on the ends you can weave in and if you want to tie them off,
too, I will not tell the Knitting Police. Now it's time for our stamen and what we're
going to do here, I'm going to use yellow yarn of course we start with our slip knot
and I am casting on 18 stitches after I cast them on, I immediately bind them off, so it's
knitting two to begin and then you bind off and you carry on by knitting and by binding
off all the way until you get to the end right here and we're just going to tie it off and
roll it up together and sort of just tack it together as you go so you have this cute
little coil right there and tack it right into the middle of your flower.
Now for the pistal, I'm using black yarn and again using our tapestry needle, how we're going to do
this are doing french knots but first we're going to go around just sort of like have
a circle going around and that sort of helps act as a guide, and sort of keeps a nice black
circular area all around your stamen. And once you have that, it's time to do the French
Knots to give it a little bit more depth, a little three dimension, so we just wrap
our needle two times and then put it back down into a different location and that's
a french knot right there, it's super simple. And we just go around making lots of cute
little french knots everywhere we want them to be, and we are done!
Oh, and I wanted to talk to you a little bit more about poppies and some Q&A, so that video is coming a little
bit later in the week, make sure to subscribe and don't miss a moment at Studio Knit.
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have a great summer and I'll see you soon!
Bye!