Crochet a daffodil for Marie Curie Cancer Care

Spring is here at last and it’s wonderful to see all the flowers on show. Daffodils are a particularly inspiring sight and we’ve got a brand-new pattern to share with you that means you’ll be able to enjoy daffodils in your home all year round.

knitshop.co.uk founder Julieta Brandao has designed a wonderful daffodil pattern as a means of fundraising for Marie Curie Cancer Care. The charity has the daffodil as its symbol and runs a Daffodil Appeal fundraising drive each March.

Julieta wearing a crochet Daffodil.

Julieta says “The Marie Curie Appeal is a cause that is very close to me and I wanted to find a way to support the charity not just in March but all year around. All proceeds from the sale of this pattern will go to the Marie Curie Appeal.”

The daffodil pattern [link to be added] is worked on a 3mm crochet hook using knitshop.co.uk’s Coquette Vintage Cotton Yarn. The main part of the flower is worked in the round using a combination of trebles and double crochet stitches. The petals are created separately and use slip stitches to cluster stitches together. There’s also a quadruple treble cluster stitch in the pattern that is great fun to work. It helps give the daffodil a really distinctive shape. Once you’ve made enough petals and your main flower you just need to sew them together.

Daffodils are especially nice with the first signs of sunshine!

 

The Daffodil crochet pattern is being sold as a kit containing the yarn, crochet hook and pattern to complete your daffodils. The kit contains a 50g ball of knitshop.co.uk Coquette Vintage Cotton Yarn in Canary Yellow, a 3mm crochet hook and, of course, the pattern to make your daffodil. The kit costs £9.95, of which £9 will go straight to Marie Curie Cancer Care. Alternatively, you can buy Julieta’s Daffodil crochet pattern on its own for £3. In this case, the entire £3 will be donated to the charity. 

Once assembled it’s up to you how to you want to display your beautiful springtime bloom. You could attach it to a headband or make a stem for it from pipe cleaners or wire covered in green yarn. You could also add a brooch back attached to a piece of felt and pin your Daffodil Appeal to a jacket to show everyone your support for the wonderful nurses at Marie Curie Cancer Care.

Links to this blog:

knitshop.co.uk: http://www.knitshop.co.uk

Daffodil charity crochet kit: http://www.knitshop.co.uk/knitshop-pattern/3029-daffodil.html

Daffodil pattern: http://www.knitshop.co.uk/knitshop-pattern/3028-daffodil.htm

Marie Curie Cancer Care: http://www.mariecurie.org.uk

Marie Curie Great Daffodil Appeal: http://www.mariecurie.org.uk/fundraising-volunteering/great-daffodil-appeal

Canary Coquette Vintage Cotton Yarn: http://www.knitshop.co.uk/coquette-vintage-cotton/2765-canary-coquette.html

3mm crochet hook: http://www.knitshop.co.uk/1635-3mm-metal-hook.html