Crochet Daffodils

Ambitious DIY project

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Describe the most ambitious DIY project you’ve ever taken on.

I am doing the most ambitious DIY project just now. I crochet different flower garlands, and the most popular are daffodils, yellow and white, with colourful trumpets. A new customer from Texas contacted me yesterday with a request to make him 24 standing separate daffodils for his house arrangement. I’ve never crocheted standing flowers with wire in the stem before, but I like challenges. I was so excited about this project that I barely slept. I woke up at 6 a.m. this morning and understood how to tie the stems to the daffodils. Now I only need to complete all my open orders, find the proper wire and start making white and yellow daffodils.

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A new item at my shop! This hand-made daffodils bunting is made up of 7 yellow and 7 white flowers and thirteen double leaves with string, crocheted from 100% mercerized cotton yarn. The garland is perfect for home decoration all year round, it can be used in a baby room, kids’ room, bedroom, living room, fireplace, on the wall, as a table decoration or even outside – in the garden. It can be used for baby showers, wedding decor or party decor. The garland is 305 cm (120 inches) long, each flower is 8 cm (3,1 inches,) in diameter, and a leaf is 5 cm (2 inches) long. There are small loops on the ends of the garland. https://www.etsy.com/listing/1393497907/white-and-yellow-daffodils-120-bunting

By the way, we have a lot of different Daffodils garlands in our shop. Possibly because I was born in March and the Daffodil is the flower of March, the flower of spring. I can’t wait for my daffodils will bloom in my little city garden this year. They are one of my favourite flowers.

Shipping

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Wow! Today morning I sent two orders to the USA, and one of them was to Hawaii for the first time. Mari purchased white and yellow Daffodils and flowers garlands from me. I always check the address customers give me at their orders just in to avoid mistakes. This time I checked the address because I have never sent something to the HI state. Thank you, Mari, for adding a new point to my sales map. By the way, the second order was to Harwood, MD. Julia bought white Daffodils garland from me.

In general, I am highly suspicious about the weather in the USA, especially around New York. Lots of my orders are in the customs clearing in New York or on their way to it. I am keeping my fingers crossed that nobody gets hurt during this snowstorm and my orders reach the customers.

Shipping

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Today I’ve sent yellow daffodils garland to Howick, Auckland, New Zealand for the first time. Even Post office workers noticed: “We were not there yet”. And they asked, how long the registered letter will fly there? What can I answer? – I don’t know. Firstly, it is the Holiday season, secondly – COVID season, thirdly – I haven’t sent any order to New Zealand before. Well, we shall see 🙂 and I hope that the customer will be very patient.

Daffodils Garland in Progress

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All of my daffodil garlands, yellow and white, sold out. Even though it’s out of season for these flowers, I still prefer to make them and have them in stock – then I can send them to a customer as soon as possible. I crochet a trumpet-shaped corona with dark yellow thread first, and then the petals with yellow or white. I plan to make two garlands of each flower – the longer of 9 flowers and the shorter of 7.

Crochet Daffodils Garland

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Finally, my daffodil garland is ready. The season for these flowers is already ending, although they are still blooming in my small garden. It was my yellow daffodils with a dark yellow centre that was my inspiration for making this garland. I love these flowers for their fragility, delicacy, smell and for the fact that they are a symbol of spring, just like tulips, of course. But crochet tulips and connecting them into a garland is quite difficult, although I can’t stop thinking about it and quite possibly I’ll figure out how to do it better. But while I’m working the details out, the daffodils are taking over.

And this is how the garland looks hanging on the wall.

Daffodils

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I’ve devoted a lot of time to create this beautiful spring flower – the daffodil. It is going to be my new garland, not typical because without leaves, crochet only with flowers. I’ve crocheted only one flower as far and am going to create the new bunting this weekend because we have Monday free of work and celebrate Constitution Day. Unfortunately, the weather forecast says that there will be a cold and rainy weekend, so I plan to spend more time with my crocheting.