Tuesday 1 September 2015

Doily challenge progress

Well it's four months since I started the doily challenge, and I have completed 23 doilies. This averages out at about one and a half per week. I haven't blogged all the doilies so far but I will. The main thing preventing me is my terrible lack of blocking. As you can see from the picture below, blocking is not something I am good at, even though it is badly needed. I do feel that if a doily is going to have a post all to itself it needs to be photographed in its best light.
At this rate, I should achieve my goal of 100 doilies in around a year. My doily making is going quite a bit faster now that I have decided to make each doily twice, immediately after each other.  This means that any problems I encountered on the first doily will be fresh in my mind for the second one, so I am less likely to get stuck on the same bit again.

Later I will need to make some design decisions so that the variety of sizes and patterns works for my project, but for now i'm going to try any and every pattern that takes my fancy.