Hana Coasters

One of my best knitting friends is a designer who has a completely different - gorgeous - knitting and design style (susstrickart: you can follow her on Ravelry or Instagram). She creates exquisitely tailored garments with beautiful details, while I prefer bold geometric patterns in smaller pieces or accessories.. She recently said that it would be funny idea to cooperate - in that I would do some sort of flower motif that would be placed in the context of a well-finished garment ... and that got me thinking. So, I started to try out different ideas to knit square-shaped flower motifs and finally settled on this one.

Since this is a lovely little project on its own, I decided to publish this flower motif ("stand alone") as a pattern.

These motifs can be used as coasters - or (similar to crocheted granny squares) be embedded into bigger projects.

 

The knitting pattern for these is available via

• Ravelry
• Payhip
• Loveknitting (soon)

Until June 15th, 2025 you can get an introduction discount of 25% with coupon code "HANA".

The pattern PDF is 8 pages long and contains 

• written row-by-row instructions for knitting this hat – including eight photos of the different stages and explanations on
• a pattern chart 
• short photo tutorials for the following techniques (that are needed to knit these pieces)
• provisional CO with a crochet hook and how to undo it
• grafting in garter stitch
• short rows with wrap and turn and picking up the wraps 
• intarsia knitting 
• weaving in yarn while carrying it (backwards and forwards)

The following materials are used to knit these pieces

• EITHER: in fingering weight yarn
• yarn in two colours – a total about 6 grams (less than 25 metres) per coaster – about 15 metres for each colour
• 2.5mm knitting needles 
• a crochet hook of about 2.5mm (for the provisional CO)
• OR: in Aran weight yarn
• yarn in two colours – a total of about 15 grams (less than 30 metres) per coaster – about 15 metres for each colour
• 3.5mm knitting needles
• a crochet hook of about 3.5mm (for the provisional CO)
• scrap yarn of roughly the same weight as size than you knitting yarn
• a tapestry needle for grafting and to weave in ends

I knitted these pieces in two yarn weights:

• In fingering weight yarn the finished pieces measured 9.5 cm (edge length). The gauge (in unstretched garter stitch: 5 sts gave 2 cm in length and 5 ridges gave 2 cm in height.
• The pieces knitted in Aran weight yarn measured about 13 cm edge length. Here 11 sts gave 5 cm in width and 11 ridges 5 cm in height.

The photo below also shows that the piece also looks alright on WS because of the techniques (intarsia and carrying the yarn along).