With Spring just around the corner, I’ve been playing with colours and using up some of the materials lying around my craft room. Â The result is this Spring rose wreath!
The colours are inspired by Pantone’s Top 10 Colours of Spring 2016Â and I love the fresh combination of light pink, coral, navy, cornflower blue, light blue, yellow and lime green.
There’s no real pattern for the stripy wreath covering.  I used a mixture of Patons Smoothie DK (light pink, navy, cornflower blue and lime), Rico Essentials Cotton DK (coral and yellow) and Sublime Baby Cashmere Merino Silk DK (light blue).  With a 3.5mm hook, I started with a foundation chain of 20 and worked rows of half treble crochet, alternating colours every second, third or fourth row.  I used each colour three times, until the work stretched around my 17cm polystyrene ring.  I then sewed the ends of my work together, stretched it around the ring and sewed the long sides together at the back of the ring.
I knew I wanted to decorate my wreath with an oversized flower and hit Pinterest to find a suitable pattern.  I settled on a large rose pattern from Kati Crafts and used the coral Rico yarn to make this stunner.  I improvised a few leaves with the Patons lime yarn and sewed them, along with the rose, to the wreath. 
Finally, I attached a metal ring to the back of the wreath so that it can be hung easily.
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