Frogs in Mae
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. 
14 May 2006 at 17:10
Sorry to hear that the frogs came to visit. I think it is a requirement at least once during any L&L. She is looking beautiful!!
14 May 2006 at 20:52
Good for you for getting through the frogging and keeping your motivation up! That takes talent.
15 May 2006 at 20:37
Sorry to hear that you had a frog visit. It’s a gorgeous piece, though, and such beautiful colors!
16 May 2006 at 10:50
Argh! Sounds like something I would do. I used to work in a bank, and cashing out was a nightmare because I very frequently mix up my numbers - thank goodness it doesn’t carry over to my reading & writing!!
16 May 2006 at 16:03
Oops, I have done that one this CS as well, except I did one of those medallion things one stitch down, and you know how fiddley they are!! I was so disgusted with myself!! Yours is looking good tho’.
17 May 2006 at 15:34
Those moments are always so frustrating. You go along thinking you’re making great progress and then you notice a mistake that sets you back where you started almost.
My problem is frequently with colors that are a little too close in shade. I’ll unwind a piece to use and then forget to rewind it back on the bobbin. And later find I’ve accidentally stitched dark grey 3799 instead of dark blue 939 because in certain lighting, I couldn’t tell the difference enough!