Crochet Lily

Lilies are one of my favourite flowers I just think they are gorgeous. My absolute favourite are tiger lillies, my favourite colour is orange so I guess this makes sense!

Most of my crafts are for other people, I very rarely make anything for myself, so for the first time ever I've crocheted something just for me, how selfish. I came across This Lily Pattern  and thought it looked amazing, it took me a while to get round to making it but finally here it is:

Obviously I made it in orange, it sort of looks like a tiger lily...sort of. I like it anyway, it has pride of place on the mantelpiece. I found the pattern easy to follow, the only small issue I had was fixing the petals to the trumpet, I had to read the instructions a few times to make sense of it. Other than that the pattern is great and the outcome looks so nice. For the stem I used a wooden skewer cut down to size and wrapped in yarn.

Out of the Flowers That I've Crocheted (which isn't many) this has to be my favourite one so far.