major frogging problem Help please

What I have doen, successfully, in the past some three times is the following. Find a place on the work that you have not yet stitched, and find somewhere where you can fudge the pattern. Then stitch both parts until you get close. Then fudge the error. HTH.

If you've done this much, then I'd just work in the 1 stitch to join the parts, in the affected rows, and mark your chart with a colored pencil or something so you know what you did, and gradually get rid of the extra "joining" sittch as you get to the rest.

If that really bothers you, it sounds like your fabric might have been a bit twisted in whatever frame. You could press it gently from behind, take a good look, and then perhaps bast in some gridding thread, That may help you see where your line went astray and shouldn't take long. Then if you really want to frog it should show better, else - just fudge (like the rest of us). The XS police won't come get you - but you're the one who will know what you can live with.

It's just one of the problems when you have a design that you work from the outsides in. Some of these designs just work out more easily going from somewhere in the interior . But we all do what makes us comfortable.

Honestly, if I had a lot of work in, and thought adding in a row could fill in without the design looking weird, that's what I'd do. Else, well, you know how that goes....

Best of luck whatever,

ellice

I am so sorry for you. I once had to keep redoing a blackwork section in a sampler - kept being off a thread. I just had miscounted something. Don't know what to tell you - if you were here in person I have no doubt that some of us would try to figure out a way for you to adapt the design so you don't have to frog so much. But, well, just do what makes you least frustrated.

Ellice

Hi Donna,

that happens to me too, and I usually try to start at another end and work from there. Normally I could find this way where the mistake was, and could match it up. Sometimes I took a single strand of thread and worked it over the row again, and it worked a treat.

What kind of fabric are you working on? I had once worked on linen where the fabric had such thin threads woven in between, that I couldn't even detect them properly with a magnifier glass. And still, they were there. It looked as I was partially working over 1 thread vertical and 2 horizontal. Very annoying. Mayby this could have happened to you too?

Working over two can easily cause a miss of one thread, or you catch 3 instead of two. Often you don't notice. Before you undo all you precious work, try to do it this way. Or take a heavily contrasting piece of sewing thread, start at the top (or bottom) and run basking stitches over 2 along the already done embroidery. This method helps me too.

Happy Stitching Sibille

Forgot to mention, that this huge problem occured to me with Hardanger, in a very large section for needleweaving. I got off track first 1, then 2 threads with the Kloster Blocks on the opposite side, which of course spells big trouble. Even 1 thread off makes the needleweaving impossible.

I had to sit down and marked the fabric with basting stitches, basting down

1 thread from the middle stitch of each kloster block to the opposite site to sort this out. It was horrible, took me ages, and this is where I discovered that some fabric threads were nearly invisible. What a night mare.

Happy stitching Sibille

Have you gotten this figured out, yet, Donna?

If not, maybe this might help.

I know you've tried some gridding but I think I'd try again, starting with the areas you *know* are correct and working down and over from those points. It may become obvious where you're off when you do this and then you can decide if or how much you might need to frog.

If that doesn't work, maybe you just need to take a break from it for a month or so and then pick it up again when you're not so frustrated and it may be clearer then.

My sister had gotten off on an Indian Chief design (in my webshots album--ndjoan) and couldn't figure out where she'd gone wrong. She sent it to me and I finally figured it out (it was actually a couple of places), restitched a number of areas and sent back to her to finish. If you can't figure yours out and would like to send it to me, I could try.

Joan

Well it did finally dawn on me if the bottom was off a stitch both sides wold look right. However I cant find a stitch off. I thought I did but it wasn't. I really feel the threads are off but I hope if I stitch left to right and rip everything in the way it will equal in the end. Months worth of work but I see no solution than to rip the right side out and move on. I spent so much time looking for the mistake I gave up and went back to stitching it and hope it will work in the end. I love this project. I work on an afghan. Have for years Flower Fairies, and this is my new project so I am not stopping now. I bought a new full spectrum lamp just for this project and have way too much money invested to put in my UFO pile. I have stitched for 20 years and this is the prettiest yet. I have overdyed fabric called Horizon and its simply beautiful fabric. I gridded 3 rows all were off. I never had this problem. I can usually spot a miss stitch mile away. People give me their projects to find mistakes. That's why I just didn't know what to do. I make mistakes on a row not a thread. I must have split a thread that wasn't supposed to be split somewhere but I must stitch on. I have a whole weekend coming up where the boys are gone and I am home to stitch and I don't want to spend the whole time looking for a mistake any more and try to make up for lost time this weekend. I just hope it equals in the end. Thanks for your help. Donna D

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We'll all keep our fingers crossed for you, Donna! Keep us posted on your progress....

Joan