About the design
This crochet pattern will show you how to make this colourful flower throw pillow, inspired by traditional Kashubian folk embroidery.
Kashubia, a picturesque region in northern Poland, dotted with lakes, covered with woods and golden fields, reaching the Baltic Sea, has very strong traditions, regional embroidery style being just one of them.
Traditional Kashubian embroidery uses 7 basic colors, each of them has a meaning: yellow: sun and fields, green: woods, black: soil, light blue: sky, red: blood every Kashubian is ready to offer to defend fatherland, navy blue: sea, cornflower blue: lakes. Six of them are featured in this pattern.
This pattern is designed by Maria Jeczmyk and was first published in Simply Crochet Magazine issue 148.
Pattern details