You may be small, but still a stinker. How could I have so many misplacements when not even half done?
Working the rest of the foundation and steps, I was two stitches short. But the house has the correct number of stitches in width so how could that be? The house foundation was stitched first and steps were aligned with the tree beneath. Ah. There ya go. That's how I realized the tree was one over to left causing the foundation to be also, add the house one to right, and there's my two. Ah.... no. If the foundation was stitched one off to the left, and I worked the house stitches off that foundation, it can't be off to the right it would be left. How the hell is that possible? Is it me? Would Focus Factor help?
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Start over. Count again. Foundation one to the left, but two stitches short. Why? So one to the left but two short would result in one off to the right. Right? Which explains why the house is correct width count but over one -----> right. So simple. Ain't it? Then why the hell did it take all morning to understand and why can't I just add or subtract one stitch and move on? Because changing one of those errors without seeing the others could cause other areas to be off which has happened so many times. This is a tiny and compact design, not much space to adapt to errors.
The tree will be frogged because I want that centered as it should be, the birds on either side will be balanced. The steps will be adjusted, not a big deal. The chart has two spaces to the left of the house and three to the right, mine will be reversed and not interfere with any other motifs. If that extra space was not there, I would have had to frog the house. I was careful to position that centered tree, easy enough with the Y beneath, yet failed. I counted the foundation several times and thought it was correct, it wasn't. Maybe 40 count is too difficult for me?
I thought once I corrected my error on the border that no other issues would arise on little Mary. Please don't tell my husband I was wrong. I don't want to break my streak.
Enjoy the day.
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6 comments:
Its amazing that I can't even count to 2 sometimes. I thought I learned how to when I was 5.
You are making my head spin!!!
Marly, Dear Marly, how do your stitches go??? ;-)
Lol
It's the same here...counting and counting again... could not find the error.
Then found the error in the stitching below the bird which was not in place. Frogging and again frogging and stitching again the bird which is now 1 thread to far to the right...gggrrrr.
Good luck with Mary and have fun,Truus from Holland
I've been there too. My counting woes are usually related to counting threads to skip, then forgetting I need to shift over a couple more threads to get the right spot for the actual stitch. On the current project, the unknown brand shifty limp linen combined with the thick/thin strands leads me astray. As does stitching while tired or with too much on my mind.
I try hard not to think "Nothing more can possibly go wrong" until a project is finished. No, it's not lack of confidence. It's more like that's when the gremlins seem to take it as a personal challenge to prove me wrong.
Sorry about the counting woes on Mary, what's done is very pretty.
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