Not quite a host of knitted daffodils

knitted daffodils

The daffs in the garden and the parks are pretty much all over but I now have couple which will never fade. Some what strangely the other week we found a pile of artificial flower heads in our gateway. Whether they had been dropped by a child or by the bin men remains a mystery.  We left them in situ in case anyone returned for them and they gradually disappeared. But then I wished I had collected a few to pop into the basket by the door - under the rapidly fading mini daffodils we had been enjoying.

By nightfall it had became a bit of a personal challenge to try knitting a couple of replacements The outer petals were not to complicated - simply increasing and decreasing to get the overall shape. It took a few goes to get the idea of a trumpets. I wanted a more frilly effect which I finally got near to by knitting it as a flat piece starting with just a few stitches, rapidly increasing to about four times the number, finishing with a picot edge before joining. The stem is a simple knitted  I-cord with a stick inserted up its length. The vaguely knitted leaf shape got stiffened with a few dried stalks from last year.

I will try to remember to dust them so they don't turn into Narcissi!