Hm.

Then I fell in love with diamond art and it occurred to me. Diamonds use DMC colors meaning…

I sourced resin drills (square) and a poured glue canvas. I had a couple of setbacks with my first try, including forgetting the entire background issue and then fucking up my canvas so I had to rebuy it and start over. It took me so long to figure out the correct background color but I’m pretty excited how it turned out!

This is a gift for my husband because we both played Zork in the 1980s (I was so bad at it).

I’m stupid excited about this! (Watch for the surprise!)

thanks to craft night tonight i've finished it at last.

started 11-18-25, finished 6-23-26

Pattern by @8pxl and can be found here

My biggest pattern to date, Nature's Journey! It was so fun to do all of these little motifs for this pattern 🌿

I made the whole thing myself and ngl I tend to always think what I crochet isn’t all that special and focus on the little mistakes I did while making it. I forget that to a lot of people, making stuff like this is like super cool.

I’m using six colours in the piecing, which should make it 92”x109” (unless I mess with the pattern even more and take one of the rows out completely) which will technically be a king size LOL The seventh colour pink is gonna be used on the binding so I get to use alllll the colours we had in stock in the shop 🎉

Okay, blocks done and middle rows complete!

I did take one row out of the centre so there are only two red centre blocks instead of three. 109” is too big for my queen bed, but I can work with 101” LOL

Technically this will still fit a king at 92”x101”, but I am a blanket hog and that feels like a really skinny king to me.

ALSO??

Because I altered the amount of rows (downsizing) but did not alter the amount of blocks I made, I ended up with just enough left over to make two matching pillow cases! They are even on point like the quilt.

And it’s so fucking big LOL

Not as big as the greyscale king for my brother, but still. It feels big.

As you can see a little from the roll on the back of the long arm, I found a fun rainbow universe print to put on it with all the colours on the front.

I’m quilting the pillowcases too, though in a tighter pattern so they can handle more washing.

The pillow cases look so good too. As I mentioned, I quilted them much tighter than the quilt so they can be thrown in the wash a lot more. Same pattern, just smaller design.

It’s so busy, I could stare at it for hours finding things in the prints.

Also? I love the pink binding. I really did want to use every colour, so this was a nice compromise to having to resize everything LOL

The backing is also so busy LOL You can hide a lot of pet fur on both sides of this thing.

The pillowcases turned out great. I used the leftover from the backing to back the pillow cases so that everything matches. And they’re envelope style so the pillows won’t slip out. Hate it when the pillowcase slips off my pillow.