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It's finished! My first embroidery project, Mondrian's Lone Star 3 (you can see no.1 here and no. 2 here ). There's definitely ...

Last week I read A Single Thread by Tracy Chevalier, one of my favourite authors. It's about the life of a single woman (one of the s...

After more than seven months I have finally picked up the Lone Star Blanket again and started making more diamonds. This is what the blan...

Remember the Lone Star Blanket I was working on? In between other projects I have been crocheting diamonds and sewing them together. T...

Here's another update to the state of affairs regarding the Lone Star blanket. I've added the background to one corner now, and th...

How was your Easter weekend? Mine was perfect - my yarn arrived on Thursday, so I spent a lot of time crocheting diamonds, while listening...

All the blue diamonds have been sewn on to the Lone Star - it now consists of 150 diamonds! Here is a pic to give you an idea of the curr...

One week later and I have finished all 54 blue diamonds (and six white ones): Now to sew them to the Lone Star. Today I puzzled until ...

Look, it's a star now! There are 96 diamonds in it and the diameter is about 1 metre. I think I will add one more row of blue diamon...

This is the current state of my crocheted Star - there are 78 diamonds in it now. It doesn't look much like a star at the moment, but ...

My crocheted Lone Star is progressing nicely - I've finished three rounds now, or 36 diamonds. A lot of them were made while watching ...

If you have been following this blog for a while you will know that I love Lone Star quilts ... so it will come as no surprise that I have...

I'm happy to be able to tell you that the pattern for Mondrian's Lone Star Quilt is now available in my pattern store on Etsy . ...

UPDATE: This pattern is now available in my pattern store on Etsy ! May I present my latest quilt: Mondrian's Lone Star! I made ...