More pieces for the puzzle

When I was a child, I loved building with blocks and working jigsaw puzzles.

My mother likes to say that nothing much has changed, except that now, I design my own puzzles and then make the pieces I need to solve them; this certainly seems to be true of my 2012 North Carolina State Fair project.

Last Friday I took an inventory of some of the pieces I had made — large textured squares, large textured triangles, and the multi-colored motifs — and over the past few days as I have grappled with other crochet projects, I have continued to make the pieces I need for this larger project.

One thing I learned from taking the inventory was that I was that I had a good stock of more subdued colors, as I am basing this year’s project on the photo of Amish quilt I found in The World of Amish Quilts.

In addition to making a project worthy of state fair level competition, I want to embrace the scrap aesthetic and use what materials I have on hand. While I am including more colors than what would be in a traditional Amish palette, I am hoping that when all is said and done, I have successfully conveyed that joy that is inherent in the work of the Amish.

To that end I finished four additional large textured squares:

Four large textured crochet squares
Four large textured crochet squares

The center square of one of the multi-colored motifs:

one multicolor medium crochet square
one multicolor medium crochet square

eight more small textured squares (to be used in the multi-color motif):

eight small textured crochet squares
eight small textured crochet squares

and eight textured rectangles (also to be used in the multi-color motif):

eight textured crochet rectangles
eight textured crochet rectangles

At the moment, I think I know where I am going with this project. I imagine that all that stands between me and the finished project is for me to finish the necessary pieces, join them, and then add a border.

Experience has taught me, however, that despite the fact that I seem to know exactly where I am going, and how I am going to get there, there is a strong likelihood that I will learn something else along the way that I didn’t even know I needed to learn.

One thought on “More pieces for the puzzle

  1. Experience has taught me that no matter where you end up, the results will more than likely be extraordinary!

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