Frogs in Mae
13 May 2006 6 Comments
Well, the weather wasn’t very cooperative today so we didn’t go hiking… maybe tomorrow.
Anyway, since we stayed home today it gave me a chance to work on “Celtic Spring.” I hadn’t worked on her for almost a month so it was good to get back to her.
As you can see, I have begun tackling the top and side borders. Unfortunately they are going rather slowly. It took me 5 ½ hours to stitch the top border row, 50 stitches down the right hand border, and the two geometric motifs… Of course I was also visited by the frog tonight so that didn’t help much either! 
I wouldn’t say that I am dyslexic, but sometimes I have a tendency to get my 9s and 6s mixed up. And that is exactly what happened to me today. There are some stitches in 936 (dark green) in these motifs but it wasn’t until after I had stitched the bottom one and half of the top one with 939 (navy) that I realized my mistake!
You might be thinking, “Duh Renée, why didn’t it dawn on you that you should have been stitching with green instead of blue right off the bat?”
Well, normally that probably would have occurred to me; Except that there is also quite a bit of navy in this pattern too. As a result, it wasn’t until I happened to glance at the model and noticed that something was off that I looked closer at the key and discovered my error.
Of course it wasn’t as easy as just pulling out the 939 either: By the time I had realized my mistake the navy thread was also woven in underneath the other colors so I ended up having to rip out almost the entire bottom motif and redo it.
Nevertheless I still enjoyed working on Mae today and am already looking forward to next week when I can pull her out again. 
