Yes, I'm still making doilies...

I seem to be in a phase again where I can't seem to discipline myself to blog, but that doesn't mean nothing is happening.

In fact, blog fodder is stacking up for when I'm more in the mood to write, but for today, since this is a Year of Projects post, you get crafty me.

I'm still crocheting doilies, albeit somewhat slowly at the moment.

I finished another "Easy Doily" in a pretty spring green:

And Doily # 18 from the book, 99 Little Doilies:

This 5-inch doily I'm calling Flower Star

(made in the color, Ciel)

Tomorrow I'm planning on attending a "Tea" that a friend is hosting.  Now, I don't take a hostess gift everywhere I'm invited, but I know the host of this gathering is going to a lot of effort.  She didn't accept my initial offer to bring something to contribute to the Tea, and I didn't get around to offering again, soooo I'm planning on taking her a hostess gift.

She has lots of blue in her decorating, and when I was at her home recently, it occurred to me the light blue doily (below) that I made a month ago, would look great with her color scheme. And late this week, finishing the smaller Flower Star, I thought it would make a nice accompaniment.  Even if she's not a doily person, I'm thinking she'll appreciate the idea that doilies fit perfectly with a Tea. 

The only problem in doing this is, I will have to remake the lighter blue one. I've liked the way it looks in my china cabinet tucked partially under a blue and white tea cup and saucer, hanging over the edge of the shelf. 

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Oh yes...  

While this smaller, more open doily doesn't show up as well on the shelf as the denser one above, I think the darker blue (Ciel) looks better with the dishes:

Okay!  On second thought, I may be making the pineapple doily in this darker blue!

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At the end of June, this Year of Project blogging thing wraps up another year, and we'll begin a new YOP year on the first Sunday of July.  I mention this just in case there might be a reader here who'd like to join in.  Some YOPpers do a January-December YOP year, but quite a few of us stay true to the original vision of a July-June year.  I have to say, I LOVE starting something new in July. 

Anyway, if you'd like to join in, you need to have a free Ravelry membership, and then join our group.  And it would be a good idea if you crochet, knit, spin, weave, tat... because fiber arts are the reason Ravelry exists.  But, to be sure, lots of other crafts pop up on YOPper's blogs, in addition to our fiber crafts.  Most of us are multicraftual and we enjoy the inspiration provided by the variety of creative pursuits.

Check us out; join in if you like!