Sustained Investigation Sculpture #2

Bound with Flowers

The story behind this piece is that it had to have something to do with flowers, because that is what I am investigating. I wanted to try crocheting flowers for this project because I have very brightly colored yarn and I wanted it to remind me of spring, as it is just around the corner. None of my flowers have bloomed yet so this was a sort of prelude for me. This project relates to my life because I really love flowers and I have been around them all my life, and that is partly what the title means.

I made these works using different colors, types, and sizes of yarn. I also used different sizes of crochet needles. I made these works by making a flat, spiral base, and stitching petals onto the spiral part. I had crocheted spiral mug rugs before, and I realized that I could probably attach petals right on to them, and a gave it a try.

The first flower I made was the pink one and it is quite larger than I expected because it has a regular-sized mug rug base, so I tried making a smaller base with the same petals and that is the small, dark blue flower. The petals are made by making a chain (three chain stitches), four triple crochets, and a chain on the other side. They look like coils. Then the crease between the petals are made of two single crochets. For the large turquoise flower, I made a larger base again, but it is slightly smaller than the pink flower. I decided to widen the petals for this one. It has ten coils: 2 chains, and 8 triple crochets. For the small light blue flower, I not only used a smaller type of yarn and crochet needle, but I also made the petals smaller. The first/inner ring of petals is spaced very tightly, and the petals consist of two chain stitches, one double crochet, and two chain stitches again. The second and third rings of petals a spaced a bit wider. The outer ring of petals has another double crochet coil in the petals and are spaced the same as the second and third rings. For the multi-colored flower, I chose to make the coils in the petals different lengths so they would curl up a lot, and it worked. For each petal, I did a chain of three, a triple crochet, a quadruple crochet, a quintuple crochet, another quadruple, another triple, and another chain of three. My next steps could be to create a flower with a different type of petal that can fill up more space than these because, although they are 3D, they are somewhat flat.