In my part of the world we say you are a fool if your passion for a pursuit overcomes all practical sense. I am a stitching fool, and I stitch foolishness.

Saturday, October 8, 2016

From the Ground Up

I'm planting an apple tree.


Given the difficulties I've had counting, I was afraid to start stitching from the top down. I figured if I did, I'd either leave the tree floating in mid-air . . . .or . . . and this is way more likely . . . I'd run into the border before I ran out of tree.

I've never been able to comfortably stitch from the bottom up although I know people who always do their samplers that way. So I've flipped the chart and the scroll frames upside down and stitched merrily away.  (Autocorrect just changed "merrily" to "terribly". Autocorrect may know something I don't. I'm not going to look too closely at this tree in case Autocorrect is correct. I've changed it back to "merrily" and it seems to be staying that way, but I'm still not going to look too closely.)

Anyway, this seems to be a good thing to do on a rainy and windy afternoon. 

3 comments:

  1. That border, though accursed,lol, is lovely. I know exactly how you feel about the counting bits of stitching. I think you made a good decision to work your tree the way you did.

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  2. That border, though accursed,lol, is lovely. I know exactly how you feel about the counting bits of stitching. I think you made a good decision to work your tree the way you did.

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  3. Turning everything around and working from the bottom up can be a lifesaver! The tree and serpent look great.

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