Back again with bridesmaids' bouquets

Hello, it's been a while since my last post, mostly due to the fact I was busy with wedding prep and I got married! 

The days leading up to the wedding were so stressful as I still had 1 bridesmaids bouquet to finish and I was panicking that it wasn't going to get finished. Luckily though it all came together and it looked fantastic on the day :)

I used the same technique as my bouquet, a polystyrene ball with knitted roses attached to it with diamante corsage pins. I also used 2 corsages I bought from a haberdashery in the sale for 98p each, as it went with the colours and also took up some space so I didn't need to knit more roses!

The pattern was a lot simpler and bigger than the one used for my bouquet and I got it off the knittingpatterncentral.com website, which is like a database of free knitting patterns for personal use.

The pattern is this:

Row1 : k60
Row2 : k2, [yo, k2tog, k4] 9 times, yo, k2tog, k2
Row3: k60
Row4: k60
Row5: k60
Row6: k60
Row7: k60
Row8: k5, [yo, k2tog, k4] 8 times, yo, k2tog, k5
Row9: k60
Row10: k2tog 30 times
Row11: k30
Row12: k2tog 15 times
Row13: k15
Row14: k2tog 7 times, k1
Row15: k8
Row16: k2tog 4 times
Row17: k4
Cast off leaving a long length to use use for sewing
Twist into a rose shape and sew to secure..

This pattern was also used for the buttonholes and for the table place settings for each guest, with their name written on a paper leaf attached to it.