Some people are able to concentrate and work on complicated charts to produce wonderful heirloom quality cross stitching. That group would not include me. But, none the less, I love Prairie Schooler charts, as well as Blackbird Designs.
This shows the progress I've made on a sampler I'm stitching for our Anniversary Swap(2nd) in AAPG. If you are my swap partner, I want you to see this, because when you receive the sampler it will be redone correctly. :) I was stitching the L, M, N this afternoon and having a heck of a time with the chart/sampler matching for M. I'm not really the ideal type of stitcher for counted cross stitch. I've yet to make one without a major error. At least most of the time, I've learned not to adjust....find the mistake and fix it! Well, today, I kept comparing the pattern and the chart, knew it was wrong, and "adjusted", because I couldn't spot my mistake Know better, and should have set it down for awhile. Ah duh! Slapping forehead once the light finally came on. An afternoon's work that has to be picked out and redone. My recipient does absolutely perfect work. She deserves my best efforts. I'm hoping to still make the mid August mailing guideline. Especially as Patijane and I are sharing the job of Swap Mamas.
It is humbling to realize I spent the afternoon stitching this very area, looking so hard, and yet missed the forest for the trees! In case you are having the same difficulty I did, notice the pattern of double green bars separating the letters is missing for M and N. sigh.... now why did I start stitching the letters without finishing the grids? Had red thread in my needle....
7 comments:
Oh Jo - looks great though - i didn't notice it first - back in my xstitch days I would do things like this! Grrr is right - Whoever your swap partner is is a lucky gal - looks beautiful! Hey think of it this way - 100 years from now - a little "mistake" would be considered more valuable!
I wouldn't have noticed it. It looks great. I just had to tell you how much I love everything on your play list. All of your music is just great.
I love your rugs and all of the things you make. Just beautiful.
Joanne, I would think about it in exactly the same way if it were for myself. :)
Farm Girl, I have lots of fun reconfiguring my Playlist. They are free, so if you have your own blog, I'd encourage you to try one. Thank you for the comments, I'm hoping you'll be a regular visitor!
Jo however your swap gal is she is going to love it. Hope it all goes smoothly from here on out! When all else fails put it aside for awhile and have a dipped cone :)
I just wanted to come to say thank you for coming by to visit and for taking the time to look up my hot peppers. I have never heard of Scotch Bonnets, but I am sure that is what they are. I have never eaten anything that hot.
Oh and I do love the name of your blog!
All of my pieces are messed up, I cannot follow my own charts, never mind someone elses, lol. I leave them if it doesn't mess up the rest.
Debbie
Kim, we are Food Channel watchers, my dh is the chef...I'm more of a short order cook. An egg sandwich in my hands becomes eggs benedict in his! Otherwise I wouldn't have ventured a guess. We do have scotch bonnets in our grocery store here in Houston. Luckily, had heard about them on cooking show! Call the fire department!!! Glad y'all knew milk rather than water.
Debbie and Ginger thanks for dropping by. I'm not telling who the stitching is for, but the redeux is underway. Un cross stitching is no where near as fun as reverse hooking! :)
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