Oh Hollyhocks! bunting

Inspired by the Hollyhocks amongst the cottage garden flowers at the front of the windmill in the village where I live, this bunting brings an extra touch of summer to your garden or home. The green spikes of buds against a sky blue background are complemented by the distinctive colourful flowers. The triangles are adorned with tassels to finish them off perfectly.

This is an ideal project for warmer days when it is too hot to crochet larger items, and the finished bunting can be used year after year.

The pattern has detailed instructions, photographs and video links so it is suitable for advanced beginners. There is also a chart for the triangles if written instructions aren’t your thing!

I used a premium acrylic DK yarn, but they look lovely in cotton yarn too. The flowers use only small amounts of yarn so are a great way to use up leftover yarn. Some of my testers used different colours for each round of the flowers, which worked well. Yarn amounts stated are for 8 bunting triangles.