Beautiful Wool Flower Arrangements - Handmade Floral Decor for Home, Wedding & Events | Perfect for Centerpieces, Gifts & DIY Crafts

What a delightful book! Somehow, it showed up in one of the sliders Amazon uses to tempt me to buy more books. I'm SO glad I looked into it!I couldn't tell how the flowers were made from the picture on the cover; they looked interesting. I have read most of the books about making flowers from yarn and most of the methods are too pattern-intensive for my style of knitting or crocheting. This book offers more recipe suggestions than specific patterns. You can figure out what you need to do from the basic instructions.Essentially, Lily Simons' flowers are made by doing what I call a Bulgarian cast on, onto a much larger needle, perhaps over a length of wire. The stitches are slipped off the needle onto the wire, which is twisted to make the shape needed for a flower or petal or leaf. Very cool.I used two needles held together for a quick test and the method worked just fine. I can make a pretty cool iris this way. Her Boston fern is the best I've ever seen, with the least amount of work.If you're adventuresome, you can find something fun to make in this book. I can see using lots of novelty yarns that I otherwise don't care for much. Furthermore, the cast-on method uses your off-hand more than your dominant, so you can rest your dominant hand a bit and throw some work to your other side. Always good to have hand balance in needlework.Added the next day:I showed this book to my husband, who dutifully suffered through six months of my buying every how-to-make-flowers book there is while I created flowers for our wedding. He said, "Wow! Those are amazing!"