Peace Poppies

With the commemoration of WWI, Taunton Meeting are organising an event as I expect many Quaker Meetings are doing so too. The pack from FH was particularly moving and also the records kept at FH library with WWI archive material.

We, as a meeting, have been beavering away with fundraising ideas for our planned refurbishment, we hope that it will be exemplary in its adherent to green issue concerns.

One of our ideas is a white knitted poppy and I devised a pattern.  Here it is. 

Pattern for knitted poppy    

Materials – DK wool in red or white and size 9 needles

Knit first and last stitch to give a good edge.

Petal knit 4

1 Cast on 4 stitches

2. knit one row

3. next 2 rows ( k1 increase innext stitch knit to last two stitches increase 1 stitch knit 1)

4. knit one row,

5. ( k1 increase in next stitch knit to last two stitches increase 1 stitch knit 1)

6 repeat 4 and 5 until there are 14 stitches

7. knit 7 rows

8.knit 1, knit two together knit to last three stitches knot two together knit 1

9. repeat 8 until there are 8 stitches left

10. knit 1 knit 2 tog three times knit 1

11.knit on e row

1.2 k2tog, knit1, k2tog.

13. last three stitches , with a needle thread through the last three stitches and secure.

14. stitch the  bases of the petals in pairs, and then stitch one pair on top of the other

put on button and brooch bar.

© Zoe Ainsworth Grigg

Of course red ones can be made too.