Sew I See!

I've spent some time this weekend putting together the cream/beige-background leaf blocks... This is a tentative layout, minus the sashing and border.   The border will probably take a while to pull together.  I believe I have enough HSTs ready, but I need to arrange them pleasingly and join them.  We've been having unpleasantly warm and humid weather lately, but this afternoon a cool front blew through.  We took a walk, and the air was so cool and fresh!  Okay, the temperature is still 70℉, but with lower humidity, that passes for "cool" here, in late March.  Perfect weather for putting together this quilt.  I can pretend it's the beginning of our cool season instead of the tail end!  😭😂  (I know a lot of people are looking forward to summer.  I'm not one of those people.) - - - - - - - I'm still using the red/neutral bonus HSTs as my leaders and enders, and the stacks are growing ever taller.  There are enough to see me thr...

ARGH!  *@^$!# Blogger just ate my nearly-completed blog post!!  I give up.  I'm not writing all that over again, so here's the abbreviated version: Finally started working on a quilt again.  I pieced the eight grey-background leaves that have been waiting on the design wall for literally months.  Now the eight cream/beige-background leaves are arranged on the wall, waiting their turn.  I hope to get to them before I forget which way to press all the seams!   I'm working on a doily ("Monaco", by Tatyana Kolesnikova), but have been stalled for weeks because there's a round with a bazillion puff stitches, and I don't heart puff stitches.  Give me popcorn stitches, any day!  I'll get through them, eventually, but it will take an effort.  This photo is from February, so it's not up-to-date, but it's already taken and uploaded, so why not? Mom and Dad gave me a diamond-painting (DP) kit as part of my birthday gift. (I think... it was...

I finally edited the photos of my latest completed doily! The pattern is named "Flora", designed by Julia Hart.  I've crocheted a few other patterns from this designer before, but compared to "Flora", they've all been smaller and relatively simple-- a couple of snowflakes and a doily called "Wispweave".  "Flora" is more complex.  What with one thing and another, I took a while to complete it, but I'm very happy with how it turned out.   I absolutely love the texture-- those incredibly three-dimensional gothic arches especially, but also the more subtle design of the flat section between the central medallion and the heavily textured outer band.  It's really beautiful!   (By the way, the pattern includes round-by-round photos with the stitches marked with their international symbols, as well as extra photos to illustrate the less common stitches/combinations-- very helpful if you're still learning or read diagrams better than w...