More or Less

 I said that my work on The Queen Sampler was going to be more or less reversible.

Lately, I think it may be less rather than more. I have found that there isn't a really good chart showing how to work a diagonal double running stitch (which all my other sources call a long-arm cross stitch) when it travels from upper left to lower right. Darlene has charts, but they don't match the configuration of this particular application--like the diagrams showing the diagonal moving from lower left to upper right are worked over six threads, but the ones showing the opposite are worked over four. Hmmmm . . . 

And I pulled every single stitch dictionary I own off my shelf and googled. I pulled out the graph paper and tried to figure it out myself. I stitched and ripped until I was worried about the linen holding up--all for the two center lines on the vine. I finally decided life is too short to worry about my backside and got it filled in somehow, but not completely reversibly.

However, the front looks okay. I'm actually ahead of where I need to be for this month's assignment.

And, as I keep reminding myself, Perfection gets in the way of Good Enough.