The Pansy Poncho and various other projects and obligations conspired to throw off my schedule for finishing the Roses Cape.
Late in October, I finally made a fabric cape template from a commercial pattern. Then I spread it out on the living room floor and started arranging the crocheted flowers on it.
Whenever we sat down to watch football games, I hauled everything out and arranged flowers. Last Wednesday, the light began to appear at the end of the tunnel. Here it is on the dining room table at my parents’ house, where the light is fantastic. See all the white dots in the photo? They’re safety pins.
Not long after the second photo was taken, I finished arranging the flowers and pinning them in place. My calculations were a little off on the number of roses–there are about twenty left over. I used every single leaf, and there are only nine or ten extra blue flowers. All in all that’s pretty good! At least I didn’t have to crochet any more leaves or flowers.
Now to sew them all together! That will take a while, but I think I can wear this to Stitches West, at the end of February.