de-framing was worth it

I couldn't stand it any longer. I had done a piece of needlepoint involving a gray cat and had put black whiskers on him, which seemed to dominate the whole scene and made him look more like a rat. It was the suggested color, but....

Took it to my framer, she took it all apart. Once home, I spent probably an hour with tiny scissors and tweezers pulling out those black 30 or so stitches. The canvas is very fine - prob. about 16 mono. At any rate, I redid the whiskers in a paler gray and it looks so much better. I was also amazed at the number of holidays I found elsewhere, so natch, I fixed those too. Glad I had kept the scrap in my stash. I managed to sew up the back and get it back into the frame with no trouble.

If you really aren't happy with something on your wall, re-do it. I'm just sorry I waited so long, like about five years.

Good for you! Charts and patterns aren't always the best. My sister does a lot of museum-quality needlework and almost always adjusts colors and materials. Consequently, she has a wonderful goodie bag tucked away with miscellaneous threads in all sorts of colors, and I dip into those when there is any sort of sweater or other knitted item that needs a small repair -- I can almost always find exactly what I need for a truly invisible fix. My mother did quite a bit of painting, and once she literally snitched a watercolor off my bedroom wall several years after she had painted it, took it out of the framing, and re-did a small area that had driven her crazy! I was not happy about that at all, but she was right, and the painting is even nicer now. (And I have a great story for friends!)