Frogging and Working Copies
19 March 2007
Over the weekend, we had our monthly stitch-a-thon over at The Robin’s Nest. I had originally planned on stitching on my “Old Waterpump,” but when I went to retrieve it from my stitching bag at work it was not there. I had forgotten that I had taken it out of the stitching bag the other day.
“Above the Clouds,” however, was there. Now, if you have been following this blog for any length of time during the past year, you know that I have a love/hate relationship with this piece. After all, the confetti stitching nearly caused it to become a UFO last summer!
I last worked on Confetti in November and actually believed I had made some progress. When I was visiting Dawn in January, I attempted to work on him again, but after a couple of feeble attempts and the discovery of a mistake, I put Confetti away and turned my attention to “Celtic Spring.” (btw… Beading is STILL not done!)
A week or so ago, I took Confetti to work with me (hence the reason it was in the stitching bag), determined to locate the mistake or mistakes and fix them. Well, I found them (yes, I said them!) and when I realized I was off in three places and my dragon’s spines would not match up, I knew that fudging was going to turn into full-fledged frogging!
I ended up frogging everything I had stitched since November.
Therefore, as you can imagine, at that point “Above the Clouds” was in danger of becoming a UFO for the second time. But once I got the frogging done, I did something I have not done before: I made a working copy and marked where I was… And it was amazing how such little marks could help keep my eyes on right spot!
Before I started blogging about my stitching, I would never have thought about making a working copy. In fact, I didn’t even know what one was! But I am always on the lookout for things that make my life (and stitching) easier, so the idea of a copy that allows me to mark where I have been without ruining the original chart seems like a reasonable thing to do.
Though I hadn’t planned on working on Confetti for this month’s SAT, I am glad I did because now that I have fixed the mistakes I can show some real progress! 
