| Size | 13 × 39 knots |
|---|---|
| Colours | 5 · DMC |
| Total knots | 507 |
| Difficulty | Easy (2/5) |
| Finished size | 0.7 × 3.1 in (1.7 × 7.8 cm) |
| Strings | 13 base strings + 5 colours |
| Licence | CC BY-NC 4.0 — free for personal use with credit |
Materials
About this design
Each sunflower is a round flower head eleven rows tall. The outer petals are DMC 973 Canary Bright, a ring of 742 Tangerine Light sits inside them, and the centre is 938 Coffee Brown Ultra Dark with a few knots of 433 Brown Medium scattered through it to suggest seeds. The background is 3325 Baby Blue Light, the colour of a summer sky, which makes the yellow look even brighter. Two plain rows separate the flowers, so the bracelet reads as a chain of blooms.
Setting up and knotting
A 13-knot-wide bracelet needs 13 base strings, plus one working string in each of the 5 colours. Cut the working strings at least a metre long and wind them on bobbins or card so they stay untangled. Each square of the chart is one knot on a base string: forward knots on rows worked left to right, backward knots on rows worked right to left, row by row from the top. Work the brown centre carefully: the lighter brown knots form a small diamond that is easy to misplace by one.
Length and finishing
At roughly 2 mm per row, the 39-row chart makes about 8 cm of bracelet. Knotting the chart twice (78 rows) gives about 16 cm, which fits most adult wrists; stop sooner for a child. Finish with a braided tie or a sliding knot at each end so it can be adjusted.
Colour plan
DMC 3325 Baby Blue Light does the most work, 56% of the 507 knots, followed by DMC 973 Canary Bright at 21%. Every colour is used at least 12 times, so there are no tiny one-off details to hunt for. Every square of the grid is filled.
Working notes
It is 39 knot rows of 13 knots; the busiest row changes colour 10 times. 27 squares stand alone in their colour, with no same-coloured neighbour along a side.
Anchor equivalents
The nearest Anchor colour for each DMC colour in this pattern, measured as ΔE 2000: up to 3 is very close, up to 6 close, up to 10 approximate.
Row by row
All 39 rows written out, row 1 at the top, where you start knotting
- Row 1 (left to right, forward knots): 5 3325, 3 973, 5 3325
- Row 2 (right to left, backward knots): 4 3325, 2 973, 1 742, 2 973, 4 3325
- Row 3 (left to right, forward knots): 3 3325, 2 973, 3 742, 2 973, 3 3325
- Row 4 (right to left, backward knots): 2 3325, 2 973, 1 742, 3 938, 1 742, 2 973, 2 3325
- Row 5 (left to right, forward knots): 2 3325, 1 973, 1 742, 2 938, 1 433, 2 938, 1 742, 1 973, 2 3325
- Row 6 (right to left, backward knots): 2 3325, 1 973, 1 742, 1 938, 1 433, 1 938, 1 433, 1 938, 1 742, 1 973, 2 3325
- Row 7 (left to right, forward knots): 2 3325, 1 973, 1 742, 2 938, 1 433, 2 938, 1 742, 1 973, 2 3325
- Row 8 (right to left, backward knots): 2 3325, 2 973, 1 742, 3 938, 1 742, 2 973, 2 3325
- Row 9 (left to right, forward knots): 3 3325, 2 973, 3 742, 2 973, 3 3325
- Row 10 (right to left, backward knots): 4 3325, 2 973, 1 742, 2 973, 4 3325
- Row 11 (left to right, forward knots): 5 3325, 3 973, 5 3325
- Row 12 (right to left, backward knots): 13 3325
- Row 13 (left to right, forward knots): 13 3325
- Row 14 (right to left, backward knots): 5 3325, 3 973, 5 3325
- Row 15 (left to right, forward knots): 4 3325, 2 973, 1 742, 2 973, 4 3325
- Row 16 (right to left, backward knots): 3 3325, 2 973, 3 742, 2 973, 3 3325
- Row 17 (left to right, forward knots): 2 3325, 2 973, 1 742, 3 938, 1 742, 2 973, 2 3325
- Row 18 (right to left, backward knots): 2 3325, 1 973, 1 742, 2 938, 1 433, 2 938, 1 742, 1 973, 2 3325
- Row 19 (left to right, forward knots): 2 3325, 1 973, 1 742, 1 938, 1 433, 1 938, 1 433, 1 938, 1 742, 1 973, 2 3325
- Row 20 (right to left, backward knots): 2 3325, 1 973, 1 742, 2 938, 1 433, 2 938, 1 742, 1 973, 2 3325
- Row 21 (left to right, forward knots): 2 3325, 2 973, 1 742, 3 938, 1 742, 2 973, 2 3325
- Row 22 (right to left, backward knots): 3 3325, 2 973, 3 742, 2 973, 3 3325
- Row 23 (left to right, forward knots): 4 3325, 2 973, 1 742, 2 973, 4 3325
- Row 24 (right to left, backward knots): 5 3325, 3 973, 5 3325
- Row 25 (left to right, forward knots): 13 3325
- Row 26 (right to left, backward knots): 13 3325
- Row 27 (left to right, forward knots): 5 3325, 3 973, 5 3325
- Row 28 (right to left, backward knots): 4 3325, 2 973, 1 742, 2 973, 4 3325
- Row 29 (left to right, forward knots): 3 3325, 2 973, 3 742, 2 973, 3 3325
- Row 30 (right to left, backward knots): 2 3325, 2 973, 1 742, 3 938, 1 742, 2 973, 2 3325
- Row 31 (left to right, forward knots): 2 3325, 1 973, 1 742, 2 938, 1 433, 2 938, 1 742, 1 973, 2 3325
- Row 32 (right to left, backward knots): 2 3325, 1 973, 1 742, 1 938, 1 433, 1 938, 1 433, 1 938, 1 742, 1 973, 2 3325
- Row 33 (left to right, forward knots): 2 3325, 1 973, 1 742, 2 938, 1 433, 2 938, 1 742, 1 973, 2 3325
- Row 34 (right to left, backward knots): 2 3325, 2 973, 1 742, 3 938, 1 742, 2 973, 2 3325
- Row 35 (left to right, forward knots): 3 3325, 2 973, 3 742, 2 973, 3 3325
- Row 36 (right to left, backward knots): 4 3325, 2 973, 1 742, 2 973, 4 3325
- Row 37 (left to right, forward knots): 5 3325, 3 973, 5 3325
- Row 38 (right to left, backward knots): 13 3325
- Row 39 (left to right, forward knots): 13 3325
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