Crowning Glory...
Crowning Glory...
Thursday, 1 August 2019
Finally, after all the pattern testing, the Crowns have been tested to extinction!
This is not to say they will be ‘no more’, it simply means that the pattern instructions, which were a mite complex in their original form, are now suitable for public consumption.
It has to be said that although the pattern for The 24ct Golden Crown, forming the base of The little Nut Tree in Summer worked from its inception, the words themselves seemed even to me, their creator, like juggling blindfold with bars of wet soap! Realising that this was not the best way to organise the wordy bits*, they were first re-organised for The Silver Crown, which forms the base for The Little Nut Tree in Winter.......
......they were again re-organised for The Silver Gilt Crown (above left)...and again for The Rose Gold Crown (above right)...
and yet again, for Most Definitely the Absolutely Last and Final Time......(listen for the fanfare!)...
THE PEWTER CROWN
Of course, one is never really sure it has been worth chasing this particular Pewter Grail (top), though it has to be said that there is a certain warped satisfaction to be gained from it!
But, what of the other notes, for the promised Nut Trees...?
They have not been consigned to the scrap heap of iffy ideas, dear me, no! The Little Nut Tree in Summer is all but ‘finished’, there may be the odd tweak, but that first part of the pair is just about done. The second in this pair of patterns, The Little Nut Tree in Winter, plus the four remaining Crown patterns are still in the state of progressing well, but slowly......it’s the labelling of all the diagrams that really eats up time!
So! By the beginning of next month, I am hopeful that there may be a fanfare to be heard!!
* There is also a 9ct Gold Crown, the lighter diet version!
**I’m not a Complete and Utter fool - I’ve yet to achieve that exhorted status......I think?)