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Coralp	Commiserations please ...I had a bit of a distaster .......	Lead	[-]
Posts: 28 (06/16/09 00:37:44) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Tags : None ........all is well now, BUT this had never happened to me before ... As you all know I finished stitching a page of GFS and I started the next page...I was congratulating myself on nearly completing the first column of 10 stitches the entire length of the the page .................when I realised there were meant to be 11 stitches to the bottom of the page and I only had 10 !!!!!! After a lot of not nice thoughts I realised I had made my mistake in the top stitch at the very top of the page ..........sooooooooooooooooo Whilst watching two shows of "Most Haunted" I frogged approx 800 stitches ...........gasp........! I am finally back to where I was on Saturday night but only after sticky taping the pages together to prevent another miscount. I was not a happy stitcher when I realised my miscount ........lol....... 3. on her Cross Stitch WIP list 1. Quilted Hearts Garden Afghan ...Stoney Creek 2.Winter Samplers...Prairie Schooler 3. Gomshall Flower Shoppe...Marty Bell Finished in 2009... 2009 Cherish Quilt, Coles Quilt Squares x 4 , Celtic Lady Summer, Spring needlecases x 2 , Bushfire Quilt squares X 2, Teacup Pincushions x 3, GTG Swap a Stitched gift, Robyn's Needlecase, Bushfire Quilt, Teapot and Teacup Quilt, Xmas Treasures Bag, Quilt Square, Prairie Schooler Autumn Samplers, Baby set for Monash NICU x 2, And A Garden Grew, Bushfire Quilt, Where Stitchers Gather by Victoria sampler, Teacup quilt Label, Garden Chair, Secret Vegetable Garden Biscornu, Tall Sundae, Couch Companion.
Marian		#1	[-]
Posts: 10 (06/16/09 04:11:50) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	You were just thinking about your upcoming trip. At least you found the mistake early on.
libertycorner	Oh, Coral!	#2	[-]
Posts: 73 (06/16/09 07:01:58) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Coral--You have my sympathies....and empathies too. Frogging 800 stitches?? At least you did not damage your fabric....like I did with MHG. I don't know if you recall many years ago the disaster I had when I started MHG. I had inadvertantly used that bright white - B5200 on the sky after I had done part of in "Blanc." I didn't see it until I went outside with it one day and thought I would die. I tried frogging, but cut the fabric in so many places that I deep-sixed it, and it wasn't until 2 or 3 years later that I tried again. So carry on, girl. Helen
Fern E	FROGGING	#3	[-]
Posts: 43 (06/16/09 15:07:41) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Coral, I make mistakes occasionally and end up frogging. Usually not a whole lot although a couple of times I've spent more time in an evening frogging than stitching. But 800 stitches. I'm so sorry. What a mess. But I'll bet that never happens to you again. Fern
Coralp		#4	[-]
Posts: 29 (06/16/09 17:22:30) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Yes I do remember your white challenge Helen....oh dearie me Yes you are right Fern ...it won't happen again...lol...my best friend is now sticky tape. 3. on her Cross Stitch WIP list 1. Quilted Hearts Garden Afghan ...Stoney Creek 2.Winter Samplers...Prairie Schooler 3. Gomshall Flower Shoppe...Marty Bell Finished in 2009... 2009 Cherish Quilt, Coles Quilt Squares x 4 , Celtic Lady Summer, Spring needlecases x 2 , Bushfire Quilt squares X 2, Teacup Pincushions x 3, GTG Swap a Stitched gift, Robyn's Needlecase, Bushfire Quilt, Teapot and Teacup Quilt, Xmas Treasures Bag, Quilt Square, Prairie Schooler Autumn Samplers, Baby set for Monash NICU x 2, And A Garden Grew, Bushfire Quilt, Where Stitchers Gather by Victoria sampler, Teacup quilt Label, Garden Chair, Secret Vegetable Garden Biscornu, Tall Sundae, Couch Companion.
deanna	Stitching Disasters	#5	[-]
Posts: 7 (06/17/09 09:46:27) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Coral, How awful! I'm glad that you were able to resolve it in a positive (yet alot of extra work) way. I think each of us can remember some of the stitching disasters that have happened to us. Mine was about 7 or 8 years ago when I was working on Theresa Wentzler's Rapunzel (with all the blended threads, etc.), and I was working on the curtains on the right side -- it was 3/4 done, and I made a mistake at the tie back on the curtain. I went to take it out and accidentally snipped a large hole in the material. For days I was so heartsick (and my husband was supportive that I could fix it -- I didn't have any ideas about how to fix that disaster), and after all that work didn't want to throw it away. Eventually I patched it on the back with a piece of the material (about 1 x 1), and I took beads and made a beaded tie back. Everyone who has seen it remarks on how nice the tie back is, and I just am quiet because I know what it really hides. Sometimes our mistakes call for creativity and sometimes they call for patience and frogging. Deanna
libertycorner	Very Clever	#6	[-]
Posts: 74 (06/17/09 19:25:52) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Deanna----That was very creative of you, absolutely no one knows the difference, and you've added some glitz to your piece. Helen

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