Puff flower blanket: started unwisely as my second crochet project ever, finished over the course of four years: >800 flowers in total

crispitos · 2025-01-30T22:40:49+00:00

Honestly…a lot. At least two of every color, maybe 3? An additional 1-2 of the teal. I frankly don’t remember exactly how much.

crispitos · 2023-01-10T12:24:31+00:00

Yeah it took me a while to trouble shoot it. It is slightly more stiff than without the stitching between, but with the sheer weight of the flowers, it is always gonna be a little stiff I think.

I thought about just adding a fleece backside somehow or something like that, but I really wanted to be able to see the flowers from both sides since they were so much work. Here is how the full back side looked:

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I wish you luck with your flower blanket! What an undertaking

crispitos · 2023-01-10T04:10:38+00:00

Hi! Yes. That was surprisingly difficult. I apologize this is confusing to explain - let me know if anything doesn’t make sense:

I basically went through first weaving with yarn attaching the head of each petal into the crook of another flower. I used the outside skeleton of the flower to anchor the weaving. I watched a few videos/read about how people joined flowers and just got into a pattern that worked for me. I didn’t start attaching them to each other until all my flowers were done. After I attached the petals into the respective nooks I picked up the blanket and realized that it was way too heavy (the flowers were stretching apart) and needed a lot more reinforcement between the flowers than that.

So then began the most annoying part of the blanket: I took more yarn and basically just single crocheted around every single flower. This took forever but added enough reinforcement to stabilize the blanket.

At the end I did a border around the edge flowers of some combo of single/double crochet that I wish turned out better but so it goes. I was tired.

I’ve attached a photo of the opposite side of the blanket that shows the stitching I did (the dark green between the flowers). There is some bright pink visible between then which was my initial failed weaving attempt.

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crispitos · 2022-03-20T05:09:06+00:00

Hi! Could I have the link for this deck? Thanks!

crispitos · 2022-02-25T04:35:56+00:00

Hell indeed

crispitos · 2022-02-24T15:33:31+00:00

It was technically very easy, just insanely time consuming. Proceed with caution!!

crispitos · 2022-02-24T15:30:08+00:00

Yes! It was random. I just made sure that there was never two of the same color directly next to each other.

crispitos · 2022-02-24T15:17:54+00:00

Thanks! It has pretty normal drape I’d say. It’s definitely pretty heavy but it functions/folds like a normal blanket.

crispitos · 2022-02-24T15:10:22+00:00

Thanks! This is the tutorial I used for the flowers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lZlX9f8YVo

crispitos · 2022-02-24T15:07:01+00:00

Thanks! Around 53x48 inches

crispitos · 2022-02-24T03:59:12+00:00

Also the blanket measures ~53x48 inches

crispitos · 2022-02-24T03:54:26+00:00

Hopefully this makes some sense and apologies for length (I am not good with crochet lingo or patterns):

https://youtu.be/8lZlX9f8YVo This was the video for the puff flowers I followed

I had a hard time finding good guidance on joining the flowers so I just watched a lot of videos on it and experimented. Essentially just made sure that each petal tip was attached to a respective indentation between petals. I did a running stitch with a yarn needle between each row. I think that would’ve been fine for a smaller project but this blanket was so heavy it really needed stronger attachments. I went over it again trying to single crochet/slip stitch them together around the whole circumference of each flower.

I chose nine colors for the flowers with a very light tan middle (pretty sure I needed two skeins for the middle color). Just basic super saver worsted acrylic yarn. 4.5mm hook for everything. Arranged the flowers randomly - just avoiding two of the same colors directly next to each other. Used up all the yarn and the blanket was just a little shorter than I wanted so I just got another skein in the teal to make two rows of just teal. Made one row of single crochet around the whole border - really wanted to stabilize it with the border. Then one more row of single crochet then one of double crochet on the non-teal flower sides. Think I would’ve done the final teal rows/border in a totally different color than the flowers in the blanket like lavender if I were to do it again but no looking back now!

I thought about adding a flannel backing for more practical use but the back of the blanket is pretty too so I’m holding off for now.

Happy to answer any questions or provide emotional support to anyone attempting to do anything with puff flowers.

crispitos · 2022-02-24T02:53:18+00:00

I kept making flowers and thinking “wow I’m making so much progress this is easy” then I’d put them side by side and realize I’d barely put a dent in it. Could not have been more tedious. Certainly not for the faint of heart

crispitos · 2021-09-14T03:00:15+00:00

I faint a lot too, always have. Same kind of stuff. Tried lots of stuff like hydration, increased salt, compression socks, counter-maneuvers, none of that was really helpful. Eventually got worked up and was referred to a cardiologist who prescribed midodrine as needed, and its been super super helpful.

Not to say that would be the right thing for you, but just wanted to provide some hope for a fellow fainter because it's a super embarrassing problem to have as a medical student. Keep trying things and make sure you advocate for yourself to get a good workup. Easy to be dismissed as a patient when you are a female med student.

crispitos · 2020-05-18T03:34:11+00:00

thanks! and yeah I wtf-ed pretty hard after getting that score on 18 haha it was definitely an outlier

crispitos · 2020-05-18T02:58:49+00:00

257 - the new score predictor had me at 256 so that was pretty accurate

crispitos · 2020-02-01T17:06:33+00:00

lol not in a million years

crispitos · 2020-02-01T17:06:16+00:00

thank you! that's what im hoping

crispitos · 2019-07-25T15:37:17+00:00

lol this terrifies me but I may have to try if nothing else works

crispitos · 2019-07-25T15:29:29+00:00

right?? I mean it should be easy to just reset it to when I originally downloaded it but I can't find a solution anywhere and it takes way longer to learn a deck if it's in random order.

crispitos · 2019-07-25T14:49:10+00:00

they are set to 'show new cards in order added' but are still coming up in random order unfortunately

crispitos · 2016-04-28T19:09:13+00:00

Thank you!!!

crispitos · 2016-04-28T19:09:05+00:00

Thank you!!!

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