Deep in the crochet and embroidery mines

All day yesterday and today I toiled deep in the crochet and embroidery mines. Weaving in ends, trimming them, crochet rickrack, tacking it down, using a yarn needle and working one chain stitch after another a zigzag pattern.

Sometimes I used a color that ended up not working, and I had to take it out and begin anew. But I persisted, and by four this afternoon, I had almost all of the seams tricked out, most of the crochet crazy quilt pieces festooned with various embroidered flowers and leaves and such, and a lot of ends woven in and trimmed.

Here is an overview of how the center panel looked:

An overview of my progress on the crochet crazy quilt panel
An overview of my progress on the crochet crazy quilt panel

And here is a detail of the space that has yet to be filled:

The space yet to be filled with crochet crazy quilt pieces
The space yet to be filled with crochet crazy quilt pieces

I didn’t really have any ideas about what sort of pieces to make to fill the space, but I had this collection of pieces that I had joined earlier handy:

Some crochet crazy quilt pieces to salvage
Some crochet crazy quilt pieces to salvage

and I decided to take it apart and see if there were any pieces I could use.

It turned out that there were, and while two of the crochet crazy quilt pieces required minor adaptations, and one I frogged completely and started from scratch, having a few pieces at had for adaptation and inspiration had the effect of getting me going on something that I had feared being “stuck” on, and truth be told, I don’t have time to get stuck:

I start to fill in the gap with crochet crazy quilt pieces
I start to fill in the gap with crochet crazy quilt pieces

The sun has set for now, so there are no new color decisions to be made, but with the notes that I have and the ends yet to be woven in, I will continue working on this crochet crazy quilt panel that is both the center of and central to this piece, and I will be moving forward the only way possible: one stitch at a time.

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  1. So happy you had some pieces you could use for filling the final space! I was actually worried that you would run out of time. Then I was worried about my daughter and her family down in NC during the Florence time… But all is well with them, and your feet are back in your progress pics!

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