It’s a good thing that arranging crocheted flowers is so much fun, because I had to try many different arrangements before finding my favorite for Winterling. Here are a few:
Hmmm. Yeah, the white flowers seem too startlingly bright. For the next try, I took the daisies off and also the big sunflower, because I thought it was too heavy and large for the composition.
How about the one on the left?—it’s kind of minimal with a more controlled color selection. Given a choice, I usually go for fancy over minimal. The next one is alright.
Thinking the sunflower might not be too heavy after all, I added it back in. Yep, I think this is the one.
After pinning all the flowers and leaves in place, it was time to sit down and sew. And I mean sew for a long time.
Something kept bothering me about the Samarkand Sunflower which has a yellow center, then a white round and a band of periwinkle blue before the round of white petals. The blue band looked too plain and big. A few bright yellow seed beads took care of that problem.
After sewing the flowers on, I appliqued a crocheted picot vine in the borders. Each picot has a seed bead on it, which is stitched in place to keep the picot from curling. Button berries grow from the vine.
That does it for Winterling!
Want to know where the flower patterns are from? Check out Flowers of Winterling.