My Pretty Wall Flower that I think I ruined with Glue :(

I've been attempting to complete these crochet projects that are posted by the fine peeps over at r/crochet on reddit.Â I started in January and did the january crochet along, and the february one as well. It's now the march and this is the wall flower that I tried. The pattern comes from here: happy flower pattern from r/crochet.

This is the almost finished flower; it just needs another little flower where the bottom piece joins to the stem.

and I liked it here and thought I did a not so bad job. I made up my own little hangy thing on the bottom. I used brava worsted yarn from my valentines day knit picks order (thank you again froggy baby).

then the lady from the pattern said to glue the back to make it stiff for when it hangs.. So i got ready to do that

and I really didnt want to put glue on this nice yarn. but ugh I did anyways.. and immediately regretted it. I dont know if it was the glue i was using or what but yikes. look at this now

I couldnt bring myself to put glue on that last center piece lol. So I had no choice but to let it dry. The blog said "it dries clear" and usually this glue does, but I guess I globbed it on too much because after it was dried it was visible from the front. I spent some time chipping away at it but I think this glue totally ruined my flower :(

So that is the finished flower, looking pretty sad but Stiff for real lol. Also that's not a good background.

Here is a close up of the parts

and here is the part where.. im afraid i could not get all the glue off it haha

I did my best to make this flower a good blend of colors because the challenge this month is to use color changes :P

Here is the flower before it was glued.. but after it was blocked.Â I wish i would have just stopped at this point *sighs*

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Thanks for reading =)

written by: lanfearinc Sunday, March 09, 2014

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