Go ahead, Scott. Find my stitching bag, the scissors, the model I'm 100 hours into stitching and take snatches out of the middle with my extremely sharp snips.
P.S. Yes, I was able to darn it and salvage the piece to no ill effect, but still and all...
Yes, that's post snippage. I think I'm going to add another reason not to stress about the perfect backside. It was the quasi rat's nest on the back that allowed me to repair it. I anchored the darning stitches to the work that was already done, so the floss is holding the fabric together in the 5 places he cut it. I wasn't able to repair the fabric itself.
On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 19:53:55 -0500, LizardGumbo defied the laws of time and space to say:
Yikes! Thank goodness you had the chocolate handy. I'd probably have had to put the project away for a few years before I could face it again after that.
Okay, maybe a few more. :) I read the subject line as a sin that you'd committed 18 months ago! It took me a bit to realize Scott is your 18mo son. LOLOLOL
I'm so glad you managed to fix up all your hard work, though.
Well, since this is part of how I'm trying to earn a living, that's not a possibility, although BOY! was it ever tempting!
On that note, though, another one of my groups had a thread on good stitching tips and more than a few people said that the way they deal with setbacks is to frog RIGHT AWAY and some even go so far as to restitch right away. Otherwise, if you just put it down in discouragement, you may never pick it up again. So I'm trying to follow this advice.
Also, I do quite a bit of frogging when I don't like the way I've charted something, so I'm getting to where for me, it's just part of the process and is no big deal. Kind of like using an eraser when you're drawing.
I think I deserve a gold star on my forehead for changing the subject line so early in the game and still keeping it on topic. So there. :P~~~
Well, I dunno. Sometimes a little distance helps me figure out where the error is.
And then there was my symmetrical pattern that wasn't lining up. I had both stitchers and non-stitchers try to find the error and five years later, none of us had succeeded.
On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 12:46:39 -0500, LizardGumbo defied the laws of time and space to say:
That's probably very good advice. I usually put things aside when there's a major setback just because I get frustrated, and then I start making MORE mistakes. I've been known to re-stitch something three or four times before getting it right. :P
But I have also been known to put things aside that remain unfinished to this day...
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