How does it grow again?
This week will go down in history as the Great Weed Out.
This is not a weed.
I was desperately lazy about the flower beds this winter and am paying for it now. I am about 75% finished with de-weeding, mulching and planting bulbs (I know it’s too late but they were on sale) and a couple perennials. Since it is freakishly cold this morning (such a shame haha) I have a minute to show you my other great accomplishment.
I can hardly believe it myself!
That is 20 CounterPain Squares crocheted together. I did it myself! They fit the width of the bed exactly as planned - with the lace edging it will look just right. I can’t even tell you the relief it brings me to know that this is actually going to work. Bonus points to me because it it pretty and I learned to crochet! Points to the CounterPain because there are still 111 squares to go (120 to join). The CounterPain is still in the lead, but I am gaining ground.
Happy Easter.
April 6th, 2007 at 2:49 pm
Yay! It really is going to be beautiful!!!
April 6th, 2007 at 2:49 pm
Oh….I can’t begin to even express how BEAUTIFUL this is!!!! I knew you were working on this but obviously I haven’t kept up with your progress!! You crochet as beautifully as you knit!!!
Happy Easter!!!! Oh….and exactly where on this beautimous WHITE coverlet with the kitties be sleeping on????
April 6th, 2007 at 2:53 pm
Wow, that is going to be one beautiful bedspread when you’re done!
April 6th, 2007 at 3:07 pm
This is just gorgeous. I love it. It is going to be so awesome when it’s all completed!!
April 6th, 2007 at 3:10 pm
Wow! What an accomplishment! It is so elegant and timeless - a true classic!
April 6th, 2007 at 3:57 pm
Wow! You must be certifiably insane to attempt a project like that, and clearly a genius to have gotten any where near completing it. Your CounterPain is truly beautiful!
April 6th, 2007 at 4:09 pm
Wow, that spread looks like a LOT of work. It is gorgeous!
April 6th, 2007 at 4:13 pm
It’s really beautiful.
April 6th, 2007 at 5:11 pm
Wow! That’s a very ambitious project to embark upon. I can’t wait to see it finished!
April 6th, 2007 at 5:33 pm
Oh Emily! That spread is just beautiful. You will be so proud to have it as a lovely heirloom. It’ll last and be loved forever.
April 6th, 2007 at 5:37 pm
Gorgeous… absolutely gorgeous. This will be a true heirloom
April 6th, 2007 at 5:38 pm
It’s looking so pretty and creamy. So glad it fits. Makes me feel like jumping on the banwagon and crochet a bedcover myself!
April 6th, 2007 at 5:49 pm
Gorgeous! Yay! You’ll beat that sucker, I know it.
April 6th, 2007 at 6:36 pm
Gorgeous! When are you going to start taking orders for counterpanes?
April 6th, 2007 at 7:01 pm
ohhh its going to be sooo beautiful when its done!
April 6th, 2007 at 7:02 pm
Oh, my, that is absolutely GORGEOUS. I can’t imagine having the patience to do it, or even the ability, but I can certainly admire it.
April 6th, 2007 at 8:19 pm
Oh, that is beautiful!
April 6th, 2007 at 11:21 pm
Oh my, your work is so lovely. What an inspiration to challenge myself. Miss you like crazy now that we are on the West Coast. (Missed you like cray on the East Coast too.) I guess, both you and Alabama are in my heart. It makes sense, you are both mythical, magical, and wonderful.
PS: Dunc turns four on Monday!
PPS: If you come out here you & M can visit both Teyani & me….
PPPS: Plus, we can take at short car trip to Blue Moon…
April 7th, 2007 at 12:10 am
Wow Emily! That is going to be just beautiful!
April 7th, 2007 at 1:20 am
Wow oh wow! That’s going to be beautiful!
I have a lot of weeding to do too. I did nothing for the winter and not enough last summer.
April 7th, 2007 at 10:18 am
I think that was very smart to put some together and get a glimpse of what an amazing treasure you will have when you finish. It looks fantastic and I hope it bolsters your endurance to see it coming together slowly but surely!
April 7th, 2007 at 1:19 pm
Yarn Miracle I guess! THAT is a LEARNING crochet project for you? I guess that we won’t talk about my doily that can double as a cap.
April 7th, 2007 at 4:51 pm
Oh Em, its gonna be beautiful! Heck even at this stage it’s beautiful! You are a wizard!
April 7th, 2007 at 5:36 pm
The CounterPain will be an absolutely beautiful heirloom! You must enter it into a Fair afterward. I crocketed one 10 years ago and got a blue ribbon at the Fair which had a cash winnings also. I love the spread with it’s across the foot of my bed tho ‘coz it weights a TON if I try sleeping under it. I think a knitted spread will be a lot lighter tho. What kind of yarn are you using? It looks beautiful on top of that other one … crocheted right? By someone like your grandmother or Mom? I plan to pass mine along to my daughter. Well have a Happy Easter!
April 7th, 2007 at 7:01 pm
That is so beautiful. I don’t think I would ever be able to attempt something that large. Great job!
April 7th, 2007 at 8:47 pm
THAT is amazing, Emily!
April 7th, 2007 at 10:35 pm
Your bedcover is going to be lovely.
April 10th, 2007 at 12:51 am
That is absolutely stunning!!! I love it!!
April 10th, 2007 at 12:51 am
That is absolutely stunning!!! I love it!!
April 10th, 2007 at 2:19 am
Wow!! It looks just amazing.
April 11th, 2007 at 8:09 pm
Emily, that is the most incredible needlework I have ever seen! It is just beyond beautiful!
April 11th, 2007 at 9:29 pm
Oh my gosh it’s absolutely wonderful. I wonder how long you’ve been working on this & if you sleep???
April 13th, 2007 at 4:05 pm
How beautilful!