Requirements
1 Ball Red Heart Soft (Aran) or any other soft Aran weight yarn(as soft as possible)
5mm needles
ABBREVIATIONS
m1 – make one stitch, by picking up the horizontal loop before next stitch and knitting into back of it
yfwd – Place yarn to the front of your work then over the needle to knit the next stitch
s1k1psso – slip the next stitch from the left to the right needle knit the next
stitch then pass the slipped stitch over the stitch just knit
k2tog – knit the next two stitches together k – knit p – purl
garter stitch – knit all rows
Pattern
Using 5 mm needles and two needle method cast on 18 stitches
Knit 1 row
Row 1 – k3,k2tog,yfwd,k5,yfwd,k3,s1k1psso,k3
Row 2 and all wrong side rows k3,p12,k3
Row 3 – k3,k2tog,k5,yfwd,k1,yfwd,k2,s1k1psso,k3
Row 5 – k3,k2tog,k4,yfwd,k3,yfwd,k1,s1k1psso,k3
Row 7 – k3,k2tog,k3,yfwd,k5,yfwd,s1k1psso,k3
Row 9 – k3,k2tog,k2,yfwd,k1,yfwd,k5,s1k1psso,k3
Row 11 – k3,k2tog,k1,yfwd,k3,yfwd,k4 s1k1psso,k3 Pattern until work measures 50cm or desired length
Knit 2 rows cast off.
Leaf (make 2)
Cast on3 stitches
Knit one row
Row 1 - k1,m1,k1,m1,k1
Row 2 - knit
Row 3 – k2,m1,k1,m1,k2
Row 4 - k3,p1,k3
Row 5 - k3,m1,k1,m1,k3
Row 6 - k4,p1,k4
Row 7 - k4,m1,k1,m1,k4
Row 8 - k5,p1,k5
Row 9 - k1,k2tog,k5,k2tog,k1
Row 10 - k4,p1,k4
Row 11 - k1,k2tog,k3,k2tog,k1
Row 12 - k3,p1,k3
Row 13 - k1,k2tog,k1,k2tog,k1
Row 14 - k2tog,p1, k2tog
Row 15 - k3tog – fasten off and sew in place.
Flower
With 5mm needles
Cast on 10 stitches and knit one row
Row 2 and all even rows purl
Row 3 knit into the front and back off all stitches (20stitches)
Row 5 – Knit into the front and back of all stitches (40 stitches)
Row 7 – knit into the front and back of all stitches (80 stitches
Row 8 – purl
Cast off
sew cast off and cast on edges together
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