G is for Grief
8 April 2006 6 Comments
And that is exactly what the “G” in the “Spring” lettering of “Celtic Spring” gave me this evening!
The thing that started it all was that there was an error in the chart: The letters are stitched in solid colors (in the case of the “G,” it is 550) and the symbol indicating the color is a filled-in triangle. However, on the left-hand side of the “G” next to some beading there was a completely different symbol. I knew this to be an error as soon as I spotted it, but I couldn’t figure out if the spot should be left without a stitch or filled with one of 550.
I looked through Marilyn’s chart error page, but this error wasn’t mentioned anywhere so I decided to go ahead and fill it with 550. Well, as soon as I finished the letter and stepped back for a look I could tell that I (as the knight in Indiana and the Last Crusade so eloquently put it) “chose poorly.” It should have been left blank. So I had to go back and frog most of the letter to get rid of that stitch and then refill it with 550.
It only added about half and hour to my stitching and it was at the end of the evening, but still… after stitching the other letters I think if I would have thought about it, it would have been obvious that it was supposed to be stitchless.
However, it is a good thing that I checked Marilyn’s chart correction page because there are some other “Celtic Spring” errors that I found out about while I was browsing around. I haven’t gotten to those places in the design yet, but now I have a heads-up about them when I do.
Otherwise I think that all in all Mae is coming along rather nicely and I am having a blast stitching her! 
