crochet clock

The devil is in the detail

Leslie Stahlhut

And, it would seem, this particular project has a lot of detail.

And a lot of those details have yet to be worked out.

There is the crochet clock that is meant to be a replica of an Ansonia clock given to my grandparents on the occasion of their wedding. I have not yet decided what time if any will be on the face of it, and because of that I haven’t gotten the clock itself appliquéd to the background:

The crochet clock panel without a face and in need of the final detail
The crochet clock panel in need of final detail

Then there are the crochet crazy quilt pieces I have made that are waiting to be joined and decorated:

adding detail to the crazy quilt crochet pieces with embroidery
I try my hand at joining some of the crochet crazy quilt pieces

and then there are the crazy quilt crochet pieces which I have yet to  crochet (and join and decorate), but what I do have can be seen here:

A test run of the crazy quilt pieces without the embroidery demonstrates the devil in the detail
A test run of the crazy quilt pieces without the embroidery demonstrates the devil in the detail

Then I have pieces to fit together, and those fits need to be checked (and double checked):

making crochet pieces fit before adding the final detail work
Checking the fit of crochet pieces before adding the final detail

There are also Borders to be crocheted around panels which will then need to be joined (somehow), and then a final framing crochet border that will go all the way around everything.

There is a long way to go before this project will be put to bed, a lot of mistakes to make that will teach me something either about myself, my grandmother, or my crochet, and I will have to face the truth that I can only ever move forward one stitch at a time.