It's a second season as poppy flowers are taking more and more space in desighner's minds, especially those who work in irish crochet style.
This also affected me, and I've started producing them in enormous amount. For a while I'll fit in two of my projects - combined with a chestnut leaf(which actually fits this beautiful flower) and for the cave paintings of Gobustan, where poppies will be purple, since that is the color of this flower that grows in that rocky desert - tiny, with narrow purple petals. Thought one flower I've crocheted in red, and we'll work on it right now. I've used Yarnart Violet in three colors - green, black and red, and for a paddding cord Yarnart Begonia in 4 ply, the same color as used for petals.
We'll get a following construction of 6 arches, finish a row with a slipstitch to the firch black ch.
Now it is time to make stamens. on each arch do 1 dc 1half treble, 6(I did 8, since I like a solid details) trebles, 1 halftreble, 1 double. Use the yarn ends as a padding cord, working on it with a dc of arches. Finich the row with a slipstitch, cut the yarn on 4 inches from work and bind off.
We'll need 80 cm of a padding cord - a 4 ply Begonia(I use it from 2 skeins and just fold it in 2). With red Violet make a beginning stich 1 dc over a padding cord, and pull this stitch trough the back of a motif.
work over PC and green chain stitches - in eash green arch do 3 double stitches.