Despite my very ambitious crafting related resolutions I made in December for 2023, so far the only crafting I have gotten done is some crochet for work.
I work in a craft and home furnishings shop and we take turns making displays to decorate the shop/showcase the fabric/yarn/trims we stock and I was asked to make something. I said I would crochet an African flowers motif banner to be hung somewhere and got started on that with a nice 100% chunky cotton that we stock. And then one evening I took it home and... didn't do any work on it for Some Time. My manager asked me on Friday how it was coming along, because she had mentioned it to the Man From [yarn company] and he'd said he was very excited to see it when it was finished and I lied and said it was very nearly done.
On hearing this great news, my manager started to dismantle an existing display on Saturday to make a space for mine, which should probably be done by Tuesday, yes? 💀
I have been working flat out since I got home yesterday evening to make my very naughty fib true. I have so far finished 18/18 flowers (bar the last round—I have one fully finished, which I did so that I could figure out how many I needed to make to get the right finished dimensions) and 0/4 half motifs. I have decided to just do half solid hexagons instead of half African flowers, because a) I think it'll look nicer and more self contained and b) it will let me defer deciding on a final layout for another while. I will probably need to pick up more of the cream colour that I am using for the final rounds, the half hexes and the sewing up, because I only have one ball of each colour currently. I have used the full range of colours minus one grey, which I just couldn't make work—I might do a crab stitch border around the edge in the grey when I'm done? I'm undecided though.
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I work in a craft and home furnishings shop and we take turns making displays to decorate the shop/showcase the fabric/yarn/trims we stock and I was asked to make something. I said I would crochet an African flowers motif banner to be hung somewhere and got started on that with a nice 100% chunky cotton that we stock. And then one evening I took it home and... didn't do any work on it for Some Time. My manager asked me on Friday how it was coming along, because she had mentioned it to the Man From [yarn company] and he'd said he was very excited to see it when it was finished and I lied and said it was very nearly done.
On hearing this great news, my manager started to dismantle an existing display on Saturday to make a space for mine, which should probably be done by Tuesday, yes? 💀
I have been working flat out since I got home yesterday evening to make my very naughty fib true. I have so far finished 18/18 flowers (bar the last round—I have one fully finished, which I did so that I could figure out how many I needed to make to get the right finished dimensions) and 0/4 half motifs. I have decided to just do half solid hexagons instead of half African flowers, because a) I think it'll look nicer and more self contained and b) it will let me defer deciding on a final layout for another while. I will probably need to pick up more of the cream colour that I am using for the final rounds, the half hexes and the sewing up, because I only have one ball of each colour currently. I have used the full range of colours minus one grey, which I just couldn't make work—I might do a crab stitch border around the edge in the grey when I'm done? I'm undecided though.
Anyway, here's where I'm at currently: