October Dramedies

Stormwind Map last time:

Stormwind Map now:

I think that maybe it's a possibility I am keeping on target? It could happen. The world is full of possibilities. I'm not sure which target that would be though. Month? Year long? I'm not crunching any numbers right now. I'm just stitching along and trying to remain as zen as possible whilst doing it. I mean, part of its purpose is to be a target for my pent up emotions that are the result of the brutal estrangement from my beloved because he's been banished to the other side of the country to toil at a lost cause! Exiled in misery! Languishing in the depths of despair!* It really doesn't serve as a cathartic aid or do me a whole lot of good to get all worked up and pressure myself about my progress.

* Really mostly spending all of his time working, playing WoW when he isn't, and, you know, pining for me. As miseries go it really isn't the worst ever. Hyperbole is fun though. And while this whole situation is infinitely more complicated than what I present here, I try not to be too much of a baby about it.

Beloved's Throw has come a long way but it hasn't been an especially smooth ride. I've made a lot of mis-crosses. This doesn't surprise me given the sheer number of them, but it can get a little frustrating. I am compelled to fix them. There's no way I can leave them once I've found them. Usually this happens only a few rows away so laddering down isn't too big of a deal. But then I found one back on row 10 of the very first repeat while I was on row 19 of the second repeat. That meant laddering down more than 50 rows! And we're not talking just doing it to a few stitches.

I dutifully set about fixing.

Crappy phone pic is crappy.

After 9 rows I realized I hadn't actually gone down far enough to fix the problem. How I managed that I have no idea. I ripped it all out again plus two more rows.

Fifteen rows later things were going wonderfully.

Five rows after that I saw I'd made another mistake back in that "wonderful" section. Boo hiss.

Rip back. Redo. Rip back. Redo.

The entire process was a two steps forward and one step back situation.

It was totally worth it in the end. I would not have been satisfied if I'd left it. And honestly, it felt like a lot but given that I was only on the second repeat and I'm betting I'm going to wind up doing ten or eleven, it could have been worse. I have to be better about looking my work over more often. I don't expect that I won't make more mistakes, but it would be a lot happier to catch and fix them sooner rather than later!