Last week I shared my progress on my Mystery Sampler. I was enjoying stitching it so much that I worked on it throughout the week whenever I could spare a few moments and as you can see it paid off!
The bad news is that I noticed just before meeting up the ends on the two sides that I was a stitch off! I was just going to leave it and fudge it--who would know--but in the end I ripped out the stitches. I was afraid there would be a problem with the first and second parts of the Mystery not matching correctly when I go to sew them together, and I would have to constantly compensate stitches for the bottom motifs. And what if I made more errors down there? So last night rather than stitching I worked in reverse. Ugh.
So this morning I started stitching again but from the right side. Let's see if the sides meet up correctly this time. Needless to say I am constantly checking my chart to make sure I am counting stitches correctly. I still love this design, but I will be happy when I finish this vine!
The good news is my mom just came back from vacation in Fredericksburg, VA where this is a wonderful little needlework shop. She very kindly brought me back several new (new to me anyway) Prairie Schooler charts. While I don't mind not buying new stash, I do miss collecting PS designs. PS is one of my favorite designers. I am already planning on stitching the "February" design as that is my birth month. I am trying to decide which smaller design to stitch now, though. What's nice about PS is the charts call for Lambswool (my favorite linen) and plain old DMC floss, so you know you won't have to lay out a massive amount of money to stitch one of the charts.
Hopefully next time I post I will have something new to share rather than work that is all backtracking!