I'm not generally a whimsical knitter. I think the most whimsical thing I ever knitted was a toy dinosaur when Son No. 2 was small and he asked me to do it. There was of course the gnome, but to be honest I have so little faith in my ability to knit three dimensional things, or indeed anything outside of the strictly practical, that generally I avoid it.
However a wee while ago I was asked to contribute to a group project which involved knitting flowers or leaves that could be sewn onto something to make a present for someone's special birthday and of course I said yes without really thinking about it and then we had the Mad Busy Summer and it all went completely out of my head.
Luckily I happened to catch sight of the original message asking me to take part last week, and thought 'Yikes, I had forgotten all about that', so this weekend I had a rummage through some of my wool and produced these
And do you know what? For all that I am not a whimsical knitter and thought throughout the time I was making them that they would be rubbish, I'm really rather pleased with them.
Lovely!
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