I got an e-mail from my dear Deborah about a week ago, asking if I could turn my lace-knitting skills towards making some edging for her sister’s wedding dress.

“Well,” I thought to myself, “I’m a terribly slow and not very good lace-knitter, and knitted lace is very floppy and has very little body… not at all what you want for a dress trim. But I have been meaning to learn how to crochet lacy edges on fabrics…

So that picture above is my first completed crochet project, from the MaryJane’s Stitching Room book, which I bought at Britex Fabrics last summer. It’s always nice to exercise your ability to learn new skills… keeping yourself flexible, you know. It’s especially nice to do so when you’re in the middle of one or two major projects. Like, oh, two queen-sized quilts. (Yes, two. One summer, one winter.)

Fabric for the second hasn’t been bought yet, but here’s my progress on the yo-yo/powderpuff quilt– that’s 4.69% of the finished product, spread out on my table.

I have five more patches to piece together, but I don’t calculate the percentage until I’ve finished the piecing. It would make it anticlimactic.