Flower Pot

My wonderful mother-in-law has sent on at least one occasion (and I think it's been twice, now) a lovely arrangement of plants which usually survives under my tender care for, oh, 6 or 7 weeks. They're lovely. They bring me joy and they're so green and happy-looking in their decorative basket, and I kill them so quickly.

I even managed to kill the cacti I had for my office.

That's ok - soon, we won't be allowed to have flowers or plants on our desks, anyway. They're changing the rules, or deciding to enforce existing rules, or something.

So, I was thinking, I could knit a flower/plant arrangement. They're unkillable, and if I do it right, I can avoid so much as dusting it for at least a year. I could do a leaf or a blossom per week and work on my longer projects between. I would arrange them in a decorative basket. I would use florists wire or a straightened coat-hanger in the stems, depending on the stem. This could end up really awesome.

And there are a GAJILLION patterns out there for flowers and leaves. I could do this. Really. I could see them in all different yarns and colors and textures... maybe even some felted.