On 2/16/12 5:50 PM, in article
, "NDJoan"
wrote:

The finish:
On Feb. 4 I finally, Finally, *FINALLY* have finished stitching the
infamous Nativity set!!!! (Well, with one caveat: there are supposed
to be tassels on the camels' bridles but I won't make those until
after I have the interfacing on, since it would be quite difficult to
iron the camels with those attached.) I have washed and ironed the
pieces and they're now waiting for the iron-on interfacing and sewing
together, stuffing, etc.

Congrats! No doubt you'll be so thrilled to have them finish finished -
don't stop now....

The start:
Next I was going to work on Florentine dreams (
http://www.nordicneedle.com/prod/1038D.html
), which I got from DSIL for Christmas but found that the canvas I had
was a bit short. I will deal with that later.

Send me a note directly - how big a piece do you need - I just found the 10
yd 18 ct white from my last wholesale order some years back. Besides the
garden package for Cheryl, there is the horsey package for you - so at this
point, since I'm so abysmally late getting it out, I can easily throw you in
a piece of canvas.

So, instead of FD, I dug out a pattern and supplies I bought at NN a
year or so ago. http://cindyvalentine.com/box_inserts/mysweetheart.htm
I finished all the kloster blocks, narrow border, the tulips (which a
coworker in the SCA told me are really Nordic ships) and the satin-
stitched hearts. I started on the Smyrna stitches inside the hearts
and got around 2 sides.

Got to the 3rd side and realized I had stitched 3 of the 4 sides of
hearts one thread in too far!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The ARGH:
I pulled out the Smyrna stitches and I'm currently in the process of
removing the hearts when it dawns on me: I HAD the Smyrna stitches in
the correct spot and wouldn't have had to remove those!!!!

AAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!

Joan

Ahhhh, poor you. Reminiscent of the time I redid the blackwork section on a
Betsy Stiner sampler - 3 times. The first time I could see that I was off 1
thread from the band above. Pulled it all out - about 3" section. Of
course DH told me it would drive me crazy, so I had to do that, and then he
asked if I was sure my 4sided stitch band 2 up was correct cause some of the
horizantals looks not quite horizontal (they blocked out perfectly). Then I
did it again, and about 2/3 thru thought, oh no, I'm still off. Another
rip. Then, for the 3rd time, as I get about 1/3 thru and thinking it's
still wrong, I take a better look and realize that I'd been correct all
along - just the band above was 1 thread wider than the others, due to the
stitch in it, and I just couldn't tell that with the faint lines on the
graph, and being an idiot, besides.

Well, have fun doing it again - y'know that practice makes perfect thing.

Ellice