I started another grape doily for myself this weekend. Thanksgiving is less than a week away and Christmas season is sneaking up on me way too fast. As I've mentioned before, I don't crochet much for myself. I mostly do it for others. But I'm at a place where making doilies for me is a fun thing. I want two or three in traditional Christmas colors. One is for the dining table, another for the coffee table, and another for an end table in the livingroom. I have loads of Christmas decorations but nothing in the way of doilies or anything similar in holiday colors. I figured it was about time to remedy that.
I love white, especially with tradional holiday colors. These doilies will be all white with the grape clusters in the variegated red, green, white thread...and I have two different shades of red, green, white. The other is a little darker with some chartreuse thrown in...both still very traditional color-wise. I've previously made the grape doily in the traditional sense - white center, colored grape clusters and green leaves...and I may make one for myself before it's all said and done, but for now the all white just really floats my boat.
It was a very quiet weekend at work and it gave me a good opportunity to get the first one pretty much knocked out. The weather has been cold and wet for several days now...and that in itself triggers the itch to do holiday-type crocheting. It's been pretty perfect. Tomorrow is my day off and it's my only shot this week to get a lot of stuff done here at home to get ready for some changes happening in my home life this week, and to prep for Thanksgiving. I'm actually cooking for the first time in seven years. I hope to be able to use the four day holiday weekend to make at least one more doily. Every time I make a plan like that, it typically doesn't work out. Sometimes my brain says "nope, lazy is better." We'll see how it goes.
In the meantime, looking forward to this week and hopefully a little brighter future. I can already smell the turkey in the oven!
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