progress & meander

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Here's progress on the Pineapple Rose. Oooh. A lacy edge added to a pineapple rose seems to frame its simple floral beauty in a delicate, crocheted frame.

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If you only knew how much I love that. It's a look that just seems to spread warmth in my heart & hands.

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I had to 'frog' this next step of adding the white thread a few times.

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Ugh. It is proving to be a very difficult pattern to follow & I have seriously considered nixing the whole cotton-pickin' thing. And wouldn't you know it? -- it's my 10 yr. old son who gave me the much needed boost to continue with it---

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'No, Mom...don't even think about winding that thread back on the spool!'

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I had to laugh, but he's right. Sometimes I am my worst critic -- and I sabotage my efforts way before I should.

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I think I tend to meander. Meander = a winding path or course.

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Okay. That does describe me.

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So when I saw the Blue Meanders in the magazine, Decorative CROCHET (May 2001-Number 81) I just had to try to duplicate this lovely look.

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(...Nooooo. Too many projects going at once does not even resonate with me.....)

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Bruges lace has always intrigued me but the stitches always seemed so labor-intensive.

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And sheesh! They were. Just reading the written directions more than confused me, but everything made sense once I studied the diagram.

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Using Aunt Lydia Crochet Thread in OASIS and #5 steel hook, I will just keep meandering & meandering & meandering until this looks like a blue meandering piece of Bruges lace.

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