Sunflower Bobble Stitch Free Chart Knitting Pattern

Bring texture and nature-inspired beauty into your knitting with this Sunflower Bobble Stitch. This free chart knitting pattern combines lace details and bobble stitches to create a striking floral motif that stands out against the background fabric.

The design begins with two elongated, lace-knit leaves at the base of the sunflower. These symmetrical shapes are worked with yarn overs and decreases, giving them an airy, openwork appearance. From the center rises a slender stem, knit in a simple vertical column for structure and balance.

At the top, the sunflower blossoms with a cluster of three-dimensional bobbles, forming bold petals or a crown-like flower head. Smaller bobbles may also appear along the stem, echoing the look of buds or adding extra decorative detail.

Perfect for adding interest to blankets, scarves, or panels, this stitch is a creative mix of lace and texture. With the free chart, you’ll be able to follow the placement of each yarn over, decrease, and bobble stitch to recreate the sunflower motif in your own projects.

• Flower Design: A prominent flower motif is knitted into the fabric. It appears to be composed of:
  • Leaves/Petals: Two symmetrical, elongated leaf-like shapes form the base of the flower, created using lace knitting techniques (likely incorporating yarn overs and decreases to create the openwork and shaping).
  • Stem: A central column of stitches rises from between the leaves, forming a stem.
  • Bobbles: Several distinct, three-dimensional bobble stitches are clustered at the top, forming the petals or a decorative crown of the flower, and also along the lower part of the stem, perhaps representing smaller buds or additional texture. These bobbles stand out significantly from the background fabric.

Knitting Pattern Chart:
The main part of the image is a grid with various symbols, representing different knitting stitches and techniques.

• The rows are numbered on the right side from 1 to 29, indicating the progression of the pattern.
• The columns are numbered at the top and bottom from 1 to 15, likely representing the stitch count.
• The pattern appears to be a lace pattern, characterized by “yarn over” symbols (empty circles) which create holes, and decrease symbols (“knit 2 together” and “slip 1, knit 1, pass slipped stitch over”) which shape the fabric and balance the yarn overs.
• There are also “bobble” stitches (solid black circles), adding texture to the design.
• The pattern shows a symmetrical design, possibly a leaf or diamond shape, formed by the arrangement of the stitches.

Legend:
Below the chart, a legend clarifies what each symbol means:

• Vertical bar: Knit stitches
• Horizontal bar: Purl stitches
• Empty circle: Yarn over
• Right-leaning triangle (solid black): Knit 2 stitches together (k2tog)
• Left-leaning triangle (solid black): Simple decrease: slip 1 stitch knitwise, knit 1, pass the slipped stitch over (ssk or skp)
• Solid black circle: Bobble: knit 5 stitches into 1 stitch, turn work, purl 5, turn work, knit 5, then pass the 4th, 2nd, and 1st stitch over the 5th stitch.