I'm curious what all of you do when you realize you've made a big mistake in your stitching?
Just now, I realized I've made one in the piece I'm working on. I'm stitching the outer border, and it has become clear that that it is NOT meeting up nicely with the other side. Somehow and somewhere, I got off by a stitch. And that is not the kind of mistake you can gloss over. I'm going to have to pick some of it out and restitch. I could see that the error had occurred, but couldn't manage to identify the origin of the error. I was getting frustrated, so I just put the whole project away for the day and will go back to it tomorrow with fresh eyes and try to find the origin then. I'm pretty frustrated though!
So, what are your strategies for when you've identified a big error? Any stories of mistake you want to share to help me feel better?
Think outside the box. I’ve become expert at that after so many mistakes. This one was a huge miscalculation of fabric size and counting. See the little prayer inside? WELL, that’s supposed to be in line-per-sentence format. I had to run them together AND re-figure the lettering to fit it in. Using different colors sort of helped with the reading of the sentiment. I was so flummoxed, but now this is one of my favorite pieces.