Today’s Rip-Out
29 April 2005
Today I passed my 5 hour rotation that I wanted to complete on “Passing Admirers” before the first of May. In fact, I worked on Polly’s dress for over four hours this afternoon while watching Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone/Chamber of Secrets. (Again!)
I was super excited because I was really seeing some progress. I was so eager to post a picture that would actually show that some progress had been made. And then I discovered a bad boo-boo. I contemplated frogging it, but finally decided that the mistake was bad enough that I wouldn’t be satisfied unless I fixed it. Of course I made the mistake early on today but didn’t catch it until two hours (and about 400 stitches) later when some of my stitches didn’t match up. So, I ended up tearing out two hours of progress! Ahhgh! 
I had stitched mostly white, but had done a little bit of gray too. When I tear out floss I seldom reuse it because I usually find that it has had enough wear and tear by that time that it is thin and frayed. So while tearing out today’s progress (and throwing the old floss away), I realized that I am just about out of the two grays that I am using for shading. Grumble!
I am not sure if I will go downtown tomorrow for my re-supplies or wait until early next week. I guess it will depend on whether I want to stitch or shop tomorrow! 
I should have enough of the grays to make it through the weekend, but even if I run out of them there is still plenty of white in that dress left to do!
Anyway, after I ripped everything out, I went ahead and stitched for another hour. Therefore, though the progress isn’t as much as I hoped for, I did make enough to post a picture!
Luckily today’s ripping out fest didn’t dampen my spirits. I still feel really good about this piece and indeed, I am more motivated to work on it than I have been since I did a large chunk back in January. I can finally see the end of Polly’s dress in sight and that helps to motivate me. I would really like to finish her dress before I put this piece away.
As Isabelle said a while back, the neat thing about this piece is that once I am finished with Polly and I move on to the baby carriage or Maggie it will, in a sense, feel like a whole new piece!
