This afghan kit was purchased by my father, Barry Jon Elder, for my paternal great-grandmother, Maude Virginia Graham Elder, while she was convalescing. My great-grandmother was a prolific crocheter. She said she didn’t want to make the daisy loom afghan, that it was too hard. (I suspect it was simply she preferred to crochet and the daisy loom didn’t appeal.) My father’s feelings were hurt that his thoughtful gift was rejected. To prove it wasn’t hard, he took back the kit and made all the daisies himself.

My father enjoyed carpentry and model airplanes, but he did not typically do yarn crafts. He was a pilot for United Airlines. The daisy afghan was a useful project to do on layovers between flights. Tragically, he was the second officer on United 553.

After the daisies were complete, my maternal grandmother — i.e. my father’s mother-in-law — crocheted the daisies together.

When I search online, I see variations of this afghan. Sometimes the daisies are all the same color. Sometimes the daisies are joined in a square orthogonal grid instead of the hexagonal grid in my example. The daisies in my afghan use nine different colors for their centers. This is acrylic yarn.

This style of yarn craft and color scheme is typical for the 1970s. On Ravelry there is a listing for Wildflower Afghan/ Flower Loom Afghan by Bucilla kits. It is this afghan but with only identical yellow-centered flowers. The loom tool has “STUDIO TWELVE FLOWER LOOM” embossed on it. An internet search uncovers books, instructions, and flower looms from Studio Twelve, typically dating around 1970.]]> Each flower is about 3 inches/8cm diameter
The loom is about 3½ inches diameter.]]>