Happy Anniversary
Sunday will be my first wedding anniversary with John. It’s been an incredible year of discovery and fun, and I can’t wait to have many many more with him.
Since this is more or less a knitting blog, I thought I’d share how my knitting-nerdiness expressed itself last year on our wedding day:

All of the flowers – bouquets, boutonnieres, and center pieces – were knitted. I made over 200 of them, based on a pattern for a flower brooch from a 2004 issue of Knit.1. I think the months of obsessive knitting took my mind off the other stressful planning details (with which we also got a lot of help from family and friends).
In any case, the wedding was a hit, and I’m thrilled to say that so is the marriage!
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about 3 years ago
Happy anniversary! Your flowers are lovely – and I bet they never wilted
about 3 years ago
Happy Anniversary! Such an original and lovely idea to knit your wedding flowers, and they look beautiful.
about 3 years ago
Happy Anniversary! What a great idea with the flowers, they look great.
about 3 years ago
It was a wonderful day, wasn’t it? Happy Anniversary!!!!
about 3 years ago
Happy Anniversary! Your flowers are beautiful and original…just like you two.
about 3 years ago
Happy anniversary! May you have many, many more!
about 3 years ago
congrats and Happy Anniversary!!! and yes MANY MANY more!!! always be happy! and love the bouquet!!! and lordie girl 200!!! wow that was some stress reliever going on!!!! I can imagine they were fabulous!!! enjoy your life!! Hugs Linda
about 3 years ago
Happy Anniversary! I love your knit bouquet! Isn’t it great to have all that wedding planning behind you? I’m coming up on my 1 year this oct.
about 3 years ago
What a beautiful bouquet!!! Happy Anniversary!
about 3 years ago
First, congratulations on your wedding anniversary! A very special time of the year, especially since it’s your first!
Secondly, I am in admiration of your knitting dedication as well as crafty ingenuity! I would never have though of knitting my wedding flowers, but that is a great idea (as well as saves money!) Plus, those kind of flowers will last a long time and I bet some of the guests could take them home as favors or tokens. But I am most in admiration of how many you knit! I would have probably gotten tired of them at #20.
about 3 years ago
Happy anniversary! Marriage is good. And 200 knit flowers? You are even more impressive than I had already thought (and I was already very impressed!)
about 3 years ago
Wow! Those flowers are gorgeous. What a creative idea.
about 3 years ago
Thank you all for the well-wishes. I think the knitted flowers ending up being more expensive than springing for the real thing, since I used oh-so-soft Blue Sky Alpaca for them, but they’ll definitely last forever!
about 3 years ago
Belated Happy Anniversary! Every day I see the flowers I brought home from your centerpieces and remember what a lovely day it was!
about 3 years ago
Thank you, Kathy! Looking forward to seeing you in NY soon!