Bridal bouquet

It has been ages since I last updated this blog! Not for a lack of projects though, it seems the past few months have been the busiest so far, with baby's to crochet gifts for, house selling/buying, preparing to quit my job and ... preparing for our wedding. Since my family and me love to craft/DIY, we did a lot ourselves. When I say 'we', I mean they did most of the work and I mainly 'directed' :-)

My main solo wedding project was to crochet my bouquet, and I have been thinking about/planning this for about a year and properly working on it for the last few months. I found some beautiful patterns for calla lilies (http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/calla-lily-flower-2) and roses (http://www.fiori-uncinetto.com/). The leaves and sepals are derived from another pattern (http://happyberrycrochet.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/how-to-crochet-realistic-roses.html).

There are 7 calla lilies and 5 red roses and a dozen of stems of leaves. A fashionably small bouquet but surprisingly heavy and substantial. I got a lot of positive comments, people were fascinated that this could be done using crochet! :-)