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Mar. 25th, 2006 08:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sethrakThis *was* going to be a chipper post. I actually managed to eat my entire dinner tonight. \o/ No indigestion symptoms til I was almost done with my stew and *two* slices of bread and butter. The kid actually let me eat a complete meal, after five pm, with protein. Behold the power of Dinty Moore.
Unfortunately, my chipper mood has hit a snag.
There being nothing much on tv, I pulled out my counted cross-stitch project. It's going to be lovely. A little buddha sitting under a bonsai tree in a pot, with a small yellowish-white moon overhead, and some half-stitch shading here and there, and about eight different kanji for prosperity and good health and other nice things on the borders. I plan to frame it and hang it in our bedroom when done.
I finish a segment, threaded with one dark green strand and one black strand, which eventually will become part of the bonsai's pot, and paused to check my number of stitches against the diagram.
Hmmm. Last green-black stitch (x) is four blank squares to the left and one square down from the last stitch of this section of terracotta half-stitches (d) I did weeks ago. It's supposed to be five squares to the left and one down.
I recount the green-black stitches (x), and recheck their positions against the chart. Nope. Green-black are all correct. I check again, making sure this time that the buddha, which (x) touches, is in the right spot. Nope. That's fine too.
I check the half stitches (d) in question again. They seem to be fine, apart from being one square too close to the green-black ones. Very, odd, because they're also in perfect alignment with the segment of terracotta half stitches (c) a loooong way above them..... Crap.
Recheck that segment (c), and the terracotta segment to the left of it (b). Those are all in perfect relation to each other.... Check the terracotta segment to the left of *that* one (a).
Segment a is in precisely the right spot. Segment b, however, is one stitch too far to the left. Thus completely throwing off my counts for c and d, which will make them overlap segments of the bonsai's leaves which are as yet unstitched. It also throws off my count for yet another section I'd done, which will be part of the border around some of the kanji.
Gorram... frelling....... GAH!
It's not a lot of extra work, true. It's certainly not the insurmountable problem I would have had if I'd decided to fill in the rest of that elaborate border for the kanji instead of starting the bonsai's pot and not discovered my error so soon. If that had happened, I'd have wanted to commit seppuku with a spork. ^_^;
It just pisses me off, is all. This snafu has been lurking for weeks, and I just now find it out. I was feeling so proud of my progress. ::sigh::
I really hope I have enough extra thread to fix this and still finish the project.
Unfortunately, my chipper mood has hit a snag.
There being nothing much on tv, I pulled out my counted cross-stitch project. It's going to be lovely. A little buddha sitting under a bonsai tree in a pot, with a small yellowish-white moon overhead, and some half-stitch shading here and there, and about eight different kanji for prosperity and good health and other nice things on the borders. I plan to frame it and hang it in our bedroom when done.
I finish a segment, threaded with one dark green strand and one black strand, which eventually will become part of the bonsai's pot, and paused to check my number of stitches against the diagram.
Hmmm. Last green-black stitch (x) is four blank squares to the left and one square down from the last stitch of this section of terracotta half-stitches (d) I did weeks ago. It's supposed to be five squares to the left and one down.
I recount the green-black stitches (x), and recheck their positions against the chart. Nope. Green-black are all correct. I check again, making sure this time that the buddha, which (x) touches, is in the right spot. Nope. That's fine too.
I check the half stitches (d) in question again. They seem to be fine, apart from being one square too close to the green-black ones. Very, odd, because they're also in perfect alignment with the segment of terracotta half stitches (c) a loooong way above them..... Crap.
Recheck that segment (c), and the terracotta segment to the left of it (b). Those are all in perfect relation to each other.... Check the terracotta segment to the left of *that* one (a).
Segment a is in precisely the right spot. Segment b, however, is one stitch too far to the left. Thus completely throwing off my counts for c and d, which will make them overlap segments of the bonsai's leaves which are as yet unstitched. It also throws off my count for yet another section I'd done, which will be part of the border around some of the kanji.
Gorram... frelling....... GAH!
It's not a lot of extra work, true. It's certainly not the insurmountable problem I would have had if I'd decided to fill in the rest of that elaborate border for the kanji instead of starting the bonsai's pot and not discovered my error so soon. If that had happened, I'd have wanted to commit seppuku with a spork. ^_^;
It just pisses me off, is all. This snafu has been lurking for weeks, and I just now find it out. I was feeling so proud of my progress. ::sigh::
I really hope I have enough extra thread to fix this and still finish the project.
