Ok...
I'm coming clean here ~
*sigh*
I have been working, as you know, on the
OWL O 'ween
design on my 32ct Old Farmhouse Linen....
I don't usually stitch on anything smaller than a 30ct ~ not because I don't like the look ~
but
because my eyeballs don't cooperate anymore...
I wear trifocals and use my ott lamp and a magnifyer, but that doesn't help really that much,
and besides, weraing the trifocals and looking through the magnifyer is like looking into a carnival mirror sometimes...things can get very distorted and confusing...
so, what's my point?
well
yesterday,
Joan & Nancy were in the shop with me...
{{{ Hi Joan! Hi Nancy! }}}
and I was stitching.
well, TRYING to stitch.
actually I was mis-stitching, frogging, and stabbing myself with the needle.
I ripped out the row I that I messed up on, and ended up shredding the thread.
and I
*HATE THAT*
SOOOOoooo I grumbled a bit.
ok, maybe alot.
{poor Nancy & Joan, I do apologize for my behavior}
I tried and tried to restitch
but
got more and more frustrated working on the 32ct.
after stabbing myself again one last time with my sweet little gold needle,
( and this time drawing blood )
I decided that the Universe in all It's wisdom was trying to tell me something:
"STOP STITCHING ON 32ct LINEN!"
or so I thought it yelled in my left ear.....
... after taking a reallllly close look at the progress of my stitching on the 32ct linen,
I had to admit that I just was not happy.
there were more mis-stitches, mis-takes and mis-counts than I noticed.
somehow,
it was just not working for me....
I told the girls that I was 'done' with it.
grabbed my white sage and smudged (cleansed) the whole shop to rid it of the negativity
that I was dealing with trying to stitch this one.
( I always cleanse/smudge my farmhouse and shop with white sage...
read more about that HERE )
...with that, I walked around the shop,
letting the smoke rise to the rafters in each corner of the room.
Then I walked out the front door with the sage onto the front porch to 'clean' the entrance of the shop.
Nancy & Joan were inside the shop, just inside the front door, on either side of it ~
all of a sudden we heard and felt a loud bang, or boom...
like something had fallen or like the screen door had slammed shut.
(it was already closed)
I said 'what was that?' and both answered they didn't know.
Nancy said 'The poltergeist has left the building!' and we all chuckled.
the three of us walked around looking for something that might have fallen off a shelf
or could have made such a noise/vibration.
I don't know what it was,
but
I grabbed some 30ct Old Farmhouse Linen and got back to stitching.
I haven't made a mistake yet.....LOL!!!
So I had to confess to you all that I had to start this one over.
I told Joan & Nancy that I wouldn't say a word, but I had to! haha!!!
So you know what I'll be doing all day today :)
Moral of this story:
Make friends with folks
who don't mind when you act a bit daft...
and keep them close.
Oh...
...and
stock up on the white sage!!
Lori from
Notforgotten Farm
