As the name says, this is a pattern for a pillow knit with an intarsia flower motif. A few details make this home-cheering design unique. This pillow cover is knit flat despite resulting in a perfectly circular pillow shape. An intentional selection of stockinette, garter and seed stitch are used in combination with intarsia colorwork to achieve a more dimensional looking finished flower motif. Coneflowers (echinacea) inspired this throw pillow, in particular the seed stitch detail used to achieve the flower’s center. Finally, this pattern was designed without positive or negative ease to create a distortion-free finished flower motif.

CHARTED & WRITTEN PATTERN
This pattern is 10 pages and contains both charted and written instructions.

YARN
Universal Yarn Uni Merino (formerly called Curio) yarn (75% superwash merino / 25% nylon; 100g /437 yds OR 25g / 109 yds per skein; Fingering Weight). 1, 100g skein in Antiquity (yellow), 2, 25 g skeins in Fjord (dark blue) and 1, 25g skein in Conch (pink).

Yardage used in pictured sample: 435 yds yellow, 150 yds dark blue, 25 yds pink.

NEEDLE
US 2 (2.75 mm) needles, at least 16” (40 cm) - 24” (60 cm) long.

NOTIONS
16” (40 cm) round pillow form scissors
tapestry needle
bobbins for knitting intarsia (optional) removable stitch markers
4-6” zipper (optional)

FINISHED SIZE
A circle, 16” (40 cm) in diameter. No ease.

GAUGE
27 sts and 43 rows = 4” 10 cm, knit with intarsia colorwork and a combination of garter and stockinette stitch (similar to the pillow)