Here are the flowers I have grown!, the flower head is adapted from an excersise from Cardiff Picot Group run by Jennifer Williams, as is the back of the flower head, The leaves are done two ways, the one on the yellow flower is split rings of 3-3-3/3-3-3 close, for as long as you would like the leaf, then tat wire around the edge with 3-3, push wire through first p on splitring, 1-1 push wire through split ring and so on to base again, then with shuttle and ball tat around the edge making 5 chains between each picot and then joining to each p in between.
The picture doesn't really show that I threaded 90 gold beads onto the shuttle to put 3 at the top of each petal on the yellow flower.
The blue flower is a plain flower with a centre based on Irish crochet,ring of 1ds,p, x5, close. make a false p. then work all chains, starting with 2 and increasing the number to fit snuggly around the shape, That was Jennifers design too.
The mauve one and the multi one, I threaded a lot of shiny black beads with a purple and blue shine to them onto the ball thread, did the 5 picot middle , and then just followed my nose adding them in when it looked time!
The big leaves were rings and chains, with a picot at each side and centre of outside of the ring, and in the middle of the chain, done as an edging, starting with a small ring and getting larger then smaller again, clover at the bottom and copy up the other side, tat around with wire for the edge, and bind onto the stalk,
Sorry I am so rubbish at writing my patterns, I am learning to do so!
