Wednesday, April 4, 2018

Not the flower... explanatory detail

While working on the Montenegrin bands these past several weeks, I've learned how to see and count the stitches.  But even though you all are my stitchy friends, you're not really sitting with me and chatting while we all work on our projects, are you?  So I thought it might be helpful to post a marked-up and more detailed picture about the flower the frog decided to make his home in.  I do not have the control over my current version of PSP as the one I had years ago, but hopefully the bright colors will work.  I also cropped out the middle of the photo so it would be easier to compare the two flowers.

The bright green - though sloppy - arrows point to the first line that I stitched on the right side flower and the corresponding line on the left (correct!) one.  The pinkish-purple lines are drawn on top of the vertical stitch (uh ... well, it would be vertical if the line of stitching were running left to right ... in this section it's actually horizontal, isn't it?) that is what I count to know how many stitches I've done.

Ugh - I have no clue if there's special terminology for Montenegrin stitch, but I think there ought to be! 


Anyway, if you were to count the pinkish-purple lines,  you'd see there are 13 in the flower on the left and 14 in the one on the right - the reason for my angsting last evening.

But (yay!) I was able to snipsnipsnip the stuff that was in the wrong place and then unstitch about half an inch of thread on each side of the lower part that had to be removed  - yay!  Maybe I'll boot out that frog and be able to finish this flower after all!


Hope all your stitching this week goes forwards!


>^..^<


14 comments:

  1. Wow. I counted 16 each side in the other photo! It's a weird stitch. I am impressed with the stitch removal. With my tension problem, you can see the holes where each stitch used to be, in addition to a little colored fuzz. Glad this correction wasn't too involved and thanks for the details.

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  2. Please keep up the great blog posts. I absolutely love following your progress on this gorgeous project. It's definitely on my bucket list.

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  3. Glad you could fix this and hoping the"frog" takes a vacation!!!

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  4. YAY! Glad the fix wasn't too difficult (although clipping out Montenegrin might make me cry just a little bit).

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  5. I had the same problem last night. It took me well over and hour to get about 20 stitches in as I kept making mistakes! Hopefully, tonight will be better. Can't wait to see your finished piece!

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  6. Well done fixin’ the frog. Very neat snipping, and lovely clear pictures. Totally see what happened!
    Hugs,
    Barbara xx

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  7. My how beautiful these bands are!
    I’ve posted about stitching the Unicorn in Captivity and at my age, would take me to death! But like you, I do love it.

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  8. Glad it was fixed so easily, Deb! How much longer til you're finished, do you estimate?

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  9. Oh my goodness what a nasty frog! So glad that you were able to fix it.

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  10. Deb, I am really admiring your tenacity with mastering the Montenegrin stitch.

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  11. At least sharp scissors can save the day even if we don't want them to! Glad it worked out in the end and you didn't have to frog the whole thing (shudder).

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  12. great photos, what lovely stitching.

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