FO Friday: Sunflower belt
I have a hard time saying goodbye to summer. Winters in the Northeast can be brutal, and, to me, the end of summer is the first part of the long haul through the shortened days and cold weather.
For the past few weeks, I’ve been passing a display of sunflowers at a local market.
Sunflowers pretty much epitomize summertime for me. When I was a kid, my grandmother grew them in her (very small but extremely fertile) garden in Brooklyn, and they were usually taller than me!
I was inspired to make a sunflower-themed project a few weeks ago. I started with just one motif, using Galler Yarns Parisian Cotton in Chocolate and Mimosa. I used to hate working with crochet cotton, but since I’ve gotten some comfort hooks in small sizes, crocheting with thread has become one of my favorite summer activities. When it is really humid and hot, crochet cotton is just about all I can tolerate working with.
Then I decided to make several more and transform these little motifs into a belt.
Even after commenting about how I seem to always be wearing the same shirt in my project photographs, I couldn’t resist. After all, the brown really works with these sunflowers!
If you’d like to make your own sunflower motifs or belt, the free pattern is available for download on the Galler Yarns blog and on Ravelry.
For more finished objects, visit Tami’s Amis.
I love it! So cute and definitely summer! I agree, sunflowers are very much the epitome of summer- we always grow them in our garden
How cool, Mary! I wish I had a garden that had sunflowers in it!
The belt is very clever! How cute.
Thanks, Vanessa!
I hope the sunflower belt will help to remind you of sunnier days during the winter ahead! I really like that you used inspiration from your daily life to come-up with this project.
Thanks, Michelle. I often am inspired by my surroundings.
Cute! And very summery! I hope you picked up an armful of those gorgeous sunflowers from the market
Thanks, Minding My Own Stitches! Believe it or not, I didn’t buy any sunflowers
. My cat is pretty rotten when it comes to flowers…
That is soooo lovely!
Thanks, Evelyn!
I love it!!!! And it will be a nice reminder of summer to come in the middle of the cold, dark, winter.
Thanks, Keri! It will definitely be a nice reminder when it is dark at 5 p.m.!