Attack of the Killer Frogs

Well, not so killer, unless you count my ego. I’m stitching away today on something I’ve been working at in a very piecemeal fashion and I get halfway around and realize that something is off. There are four sets of stitched hearts, with colors building on each other in a gradient. I look at it carefully and come to the ugly conclusion that I’ve built up the motif I’m about to work on one thread off from where it should be. Which brings the inevitable question of how the heck did I manage to do that? I mean seriously how? This is a small piece, folks. A Just Nan WhimZi that is 2 inches square. How do you screw that up? But somehow I managed to do it. So, I rip it out (fortunately, there were only two colors laid down so far), all the while berating myself in my head. I restitch it and get it back to where it was and lay the color that I had been working with when all of this started in its place below the others. I get to the fourth side of the square, only to find another problem. Oh come on! Seriously? What is my problem? This is not a complex design I’m working with. Sheesh! The best I can figure is that when I was counting out to the middle to do this new mistake I’ve found, I must have started the count from the side that was off. I hope.

My biggest concern now is not just what other stupid mistakes I will find as I continue, but what did I do wrong today that I’ll find the next time I sit down to put the finishing touches on this piece?

I mean, really, it’s a 2 inch square of stitching. Two. Inch. Square. What the heck?