Fields Of Gold Crochet Blanket Printed Pattern

Jane loves botanical drawings and recently purchased a fabulous book from Kew Gardens with the most wonderful illustrations.There is a page within the book that features sunflowers, hellebore and opium poppy seed heads and it made her think of the fields of sunflowers we walked through on a lovely French holiday a few years ago.

Jane has always loved sunflowers with all of their connotations to heat and sunshine and Vincent Van Gogh, whose series of sunflower still life studies are infamous, saw these stunning flowers as a symbol of friendship and gratitude, so using them as the inspiration for a new design was inevitable, and as wild poppies are common place in fields of sunflowers, it was logical that this design should feature them too.

The ‘join as you go’ method for joining crochet is a commonly used technique.

If you have not done it before you might find this video from Bella Coco helpful.

The video shows a technique for the flat braid join. The part of this video that is relevant to Fields of Gold starts at approximately 6.30 minutes, but it is worth watching the whole video as the flat brain join is a great technique in itself!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjcAtooOAY8

Yarn needed for this project:

13 Stylecraft Life DK 100g balls of the following shades:

• 2447 x 2 French Blue
• 2416 x 2 Teal
• 2311 x 2 Fern
• 2446 x 2 Caramel
• 2394 x 1 Daffodil
• 2306 x 1 Cardinal
• 2319 x 1 Cranberry
• 2312 x 1 Copper
• 2302 x 1 Olive