Knitted Daisy

• 1). Thread a coarse bead needle with white, baby or sock yarn. The needle needs to have an eye large enough to carry the yarn, but it must also be small enough to pass through the beads. Thread two dozen clear glass beads onto the yarn.
  
  
• 2). Cast two stitches onto a double-pointed knitting needle. Place the yarn across the palm of your hand, using the little finger and ring finger to hold it and control the tension. Wrap the yarn around your spread thumb, index and middle finger, then insert the knitting needle through the yarn loop between the thumb and index finger. Use your right hand to pull the loop tight.
  
  
• 3). Purl across both stitches. To make a purl stitch, insert the needle from the front of the work, which is the side that is away from you during this starting row. Wrap the yarn over the knitting needle and draw a loop from the back to the front. Turn the work around and insert the needle from the back of the work -- the side next to you. Wrap the yarn across the knitting needle and pull a loop through to the back. This will create a knit stitch. Insert the needle through the thread between the stitches and make a new knit stitch. This will increase your stitches for this row to three. Knit the last stitch and turn your work around again.
  
  
• 4). Purl across all of the stitches and turn the work. Knit one stitch and pull a bead down the yarn to rest on the right side of the work. Make one increase stitch by inserting the needle through the yarn between the stitches in the previous row and pulling up a new loop. Knit the next stitch, pull down another bead and make another increase stitch. Knit the last stitch and turn the work. Purl back across all of the stitches.
  
  
• 5). Knit one more increase row, then continue knitting and purling and adding beads without increasing for five rows. Make decrease rows by purling the first two stitches and the last two stitches of a purl row together, then knit the next row and add beads as usual. Decrease until only two stitches remain. Knit them together, cut the yarn and pull the end through the last loop. Work the tail of the yarn into the petal using a crochet hook to pull it back and forth through the crochet.
  
  
• 6). Thread amber beads onto yellow yarn. Cast on two stitches. Knit one stitch, pull down a bead, pick up a stitch from the cast-on stitches, pull down a bead and knit the last stitch. Turn the work and purl across all of the stitches. Knit one stitch, pull down a bead, make an increase stitch, pull down a bead, knit one stitch, pull down a bead, make an increase stitch and pull down a bead. When the center is as wide as you wish to make it, begin decreasing on the purl rows until only two stitches remain.
  
  
• 7). Cut the yarn and knit the last two stitches together. Pull the loop through and work the tail back through the knitted stitches using a crochet hook to pull it back and forth through the work.Pin the white petals to the back of the yellow center and sew them in place.
  
  

Knitted Tulip

• 1). Cast two stitches onto each of three double-pointed knitting needles. Insert a fourth needle through the first stitch that was cast on, and wrap the working yarn over the needle. Pull it through to create a knit stitch. Knit one round of plain knitting. On the second round, knit one, increase by knitting a stitch through the yarn between the two stitches, and then knit the last stitch on each needle. Knit one plain round.
  
  
• 2). On the next round, knit one stitch. Place a bead over the tip of a number 9 crochet hook. Insert the hook under the yarn in the previous row and pull a loop up and through the bead. Slip the loop onto the end of the working needle. Add an increase stitch by pulling a loop through the thread of the previous row. Knit a regular stitch, add an increase stitch with a bead and then knit the last stitch on the needle. Follow this pattern on all three needles. Knit one plain round.
  
  
• 3). Continue this pattern until there are 22 stitches on the needles, or the base cup is your desired size. End on a plain knit row and then begin to separate the petals. Cap the second and third needles to keep from dropping stitches while you work on the first. Knit across the stitches on the first row. Add beads but do not make increases. Turn the work, purl two stitches together, purl across to the next-to-last stitch and purl the last two together.
  
  
• 4). Turn the work and knit across adding beads to every other stitch. When only two stitches remain on the needle, cut the yarn. Knit the last two stitches together, pull the yarn through the loop and pull tight. Hide the loose end by working it down through the petal using a crochet hook.
  
  
• 5). Knit a round stem. Thread green beads on the yarn if you wish to bead the stem. Cast five stitches of green yarn onto a double-point needle. Insert a second needle into the first stitch cast onto the needle. Bring the yarn from the other end of the cast-on stitches and use it to knit across the five stitches. If you are beading the stem, pull down one bead after each knitted stitch. At the end of the row, do not turn the work. Insert the free needle into the beginning stitch. This will create a round tube of knitting.
  
  
• 6). Make green leaves using a method similar to the one used to make daisy petals. Thread green beads onto green yarn. Cast two stitches onto a knitting needle. Purl across the stitches. Turn the work, knit one, slide down a bead, pick up a stitch by knitting through the center thread from the previous row, slide down a bead and then knit the last stitch. Turn the work and purl back across. Repeat, this time increasing between the first two and the last two stitches on the row. Continue to alternate the increase and beading rows with the purl rows till the leaf has reached the desired width.
  
  
• 7). Decrease the leaf width by purling the first two stitches and the last two stitches together. Continue to add beading on the knit rows, but do not add the increase stitches. Repeat these rows till only two stitches remain on the needle. Cut the yarn, knit the last two stitches together and pull the yarn through the last loop. Use a crochet hook to work the yarn end back and forth through the knitted work to hide it.
  
  
• 8). Pin the flower to the top of the stem and the leaves to the sides of the stem and sew them in place.