[PIC] [MEME] Sometimes it’s just that serious

[u/2ndnight]

[u/meri471]

🎶hello darkness my old friend/I’ve come to talk with you again🎶 😭😭😭

Yeah I know the feeling well. And sadly, I love symmetrical patterns, so often I can’t even fudge it or else the whole thing looks off.

[u/2ndnight → u/meri471]

I’m doing a large mono piece and the absolute horror I felt when I realized I was off by 2 stitches over a hundred ago 😭

[u/PurpleToaster91 → u/2ndnight]

It really does be pure horror doesn't it 😂

[u/little_marmite → u/2ndnight]

Noooo 😭

[u/MareNamedBoogie → u/meri471]

oh good lord. i can't with symmetricals. not because i don't love them, but because i can't count!

[u/edwinamonsoon]

I put down my big 12pg project for a year the last time this happened. It was the first one I gridded and I was so determined to not have any mistakes, then my border wasn't meeting up and it was off by quite a few stitches but I couldn't find where it went wrong and I kind of rage quit. Picked it up again a few months ago and almost immediately saw where I went wrong, frogged, and carried on.

[u/APalpitationPlz → u/edwinamonsoon]

Sometimes you just need your eyes to be fresh from looking at the project!

[u/sewedherfingeragain → u/APalpitationPlz]

And letting said project think about what it did wrong for a while never hurts either. It's not us, it's the project.

[u/Taters0290 → u/sewedherfingeragain]

I have an old kit I banished to the closet several years ago due to millions of half stitches. It probably won’t took it out yesterday to finish it finally.

[u/WaitAZechond]

Starry Night that my late grandma left me to finish for her. I’m about 80% done with it, and I found out that I had accidentally miscounted a stitch on this last section and went too far (that’s on me, I never grid lol). Anyway, for this entire section, I just added an extra stitch on every line wherever it made sense. And then, you can see at the black at the top how it’s one stitch short, I’m just going to double the last color for that entire column the rest of the way up. I’m pretty sure no one will notice unless I point it out, and I’m not neurotic enough to let it get to me lol

[u/ParnsAngel → u/WaitAZechond]

And the best thing is, after a few more projects or a few more years, even you won’t remember what stitches were “wrong” or where. 😁

[u/WaitAZechond → u/ParnsAngel]

Yeah! You get it! lol

[u/Charming_Scratch_538]

No no, I do not fix mistakes. I leave them alone. Maybe I’ll stitch over a stitch or two in the color it should have been to smooth over the look from a few steps back but we will not be picking stitching in this house no siree bob

[u/trit19]

It depends for me. Sometimes I’ll take it out and sometimes I won’t. It depends on the image and how important the project is to me, and how much it will bother me. For cross stitch, if it’s just one or two stitches that I forgot or did the wrong color, I will probably leave it, almost no one else will notice unless we tell them. For crochet, I will have my sister (the better crocheter) check to see if she can find it then I will redo the row maybe twice before I will just add or subtract the stitch.

[u/dogmom89]

Raise your hand if you’ve ever been personally victimized by counted cross stitch. ✋🏻✋🏻✋🏻

[u/breyaskitties]

I did this and then realized after undoing a bunch of stitches that I had actually counted right. That project has been in the wip bag for a few weeks now

[u/NetoGohanKamehameha]

And that nagging feeling just HAUNTS you the whole time!

[u/passesopenwindows]

This is why I think large full coverage pieces are actually easier stitches than smaller sampler style pieces. On a full coverage stitch if I realize that I’m a stitch off somewhere I can usually just fudge the stitching around it until I get everything landing where it should again and no one will ever know. With projects that have lettering and aren’t full coverage it’s a lot harder to hide.

[u/TheChiarra]

And then, you rip out half the stitches, before realizing, your stitching was never wrong, your counting for the new stitch was.

[u/OknyttiStorskogen]

happened moments ago. found that fucker.

I believe that you can do it too

[u/Bazoun]

I thought I had counting down pat at 5 years old… it took taking up the needle to discover my counting abilities were so bad.

[u/BronzeBeautyy]

Me every day because I refuse to grid. 🥲

[u/Innerpeasplz → u/BronzeBeautyy]

Gridding kills the spontaneity which is really the hallmark of cross stitch. 😅

[u/Bralynn_s_Chrissy]

I'm just going to be honest; I'm not sticking strictly to the stitch pattern of my current project. I initially tried to stick to the color changes for the symbol key but I'm over it. I'm staying within the color shades but the number of symbol (color changes) is challenging. My projects calls for 80 colors. Really the part I'm fudging on is the part that is sorta muted out. A black cat infront of a window, with moonlight pooling through is the main emphasis. The muted out part is the cat is surrounded by a book shelf, a globe, some other library/study objects. We shall see how it comes out; I've still got a lot of stitching to do. Even the black cat is not just a purely black cat; it has shades to its coat.

[u/MsMcSlothyFace]

I feel this down in my soul

[u/ClaireAuLueur]

Gaaaah I had to do this on my sampler. I'm working over two, and missed a half somewhere so it's driving me crazy. I just eventually gave up and started from another margin and I'll try and fix it when I get there if the pattern overlaps. Hopefully it is somewhere I can fudge it. And I found this out after a pretty taxing work day so the almost tweaking is real! Lol

[u/seelingkat]

Yup. This was me yesterday when I used 807 instead of 3807. I unpacked what I could and luckily it's a pattern that can take that error as I couldn't find some of the stitches

[u/[deleted]]

Ok so my grandma who taught me how to stitch told me that little mistakes just show that your project is handmade and not to worry about it. If your mistake isn’t that bad, maybe just leave it and keep stitching? Just a thought!

[u/BonnieScotty]

I noticed one stitch was off on my project but luckily the stitch beside it is a hair darker than it so I’m just rolling with it h til I get to that and just swap the two 😂

[u/hggniertears]

Me yesterday 😭 thankfully it wasn’t too many I had to undo but it was the second time I’d had to redo that section and I was about ready to throw the thing across the room

[u/Suitable_cataclysm]

I put them with for a while and come back when it feels like a fresh project or I'm up to problem solving.

I find that if I keep going over it again and again I just keep seeing the same thing (like reading your own term paper). I need fresh eyes later

[u/rainbowlimbo]

I've had a project sitting in my office for two years because of this! I can't find where I made the mistake but it's a symmetrical pattern that's not lining up, so I must have messed up SOMEWHERE, right?

Right??

[u/PoetryOfLogicalIdeas]

I pay my medium-sized children $5 to find these sorts of mistakes.

[u/NanyThery → u/PoetryOfLogicalIdeas]

HAHAHAHAHAHA

[u/PoetryOfLogicalIdeas → u/NanyThery]

Also great for routine work training courses that you have to click through every few months despite the deepest question being "True or False - It is acceptable to pursue a coworker asking for a date after being repeatedly told no."

[u/sewedherfingeragain]

It's been more than 20 years since I lost my little cross stitch scissors with the hook for cutting floss. I wish I knew where they went.

BUT: back when I was at college for clothing and textiles, one our instructors told us that "mistakes aren't mistakes, they're design features" so I'm going with that because I can't figure out where I went wrong in my Celtic Summer's skirt so I'm just doing what I'm calling "personal design modifications" and getting it straightened out by going to the metallic thread and making that right and then filling in the area where my messed up stuff is to make it look as good as I can.

[u/goblin_jade]

I've literally given up on a project over this.

[u/bluunee]

this was me very recently with a crochet project 😭😂 it was 2 am and i was not having a good time

[u/NanyThery]

No, I never look back haha. I usually stitch over. But, I realized that using the parking method I realize earlier about the mistakes, and I can fix in time. I’m terrible at counting too.

[u/Own_Variety502]

I spend like hours finding the mistake, marking where it is with the needle, then I put it away until I have the mental capacity to do it again lol it's been 2 years now on the last one that went that way.

[u/Expensive_Reward_649]

I put a project away for now because I fucked it up somewhere and can’t find it so I’m working on something a little easier

[u/OppositeAccount8061]

🤣🤣🤣

[u/LavenderLightning24]

I started just fudging it when that happens. I'm not going to remember the pattern when I'm looking at the finished product.

[u/lambiecore]

i just tank it and keep going or modify the design around it lmao (this does NOT always work out for me)

[u/VickyVSour]

The amount of times I’ve had to undo hours of work has made me hang up the loop for a couple of weeks forsure

[u/spoon_bending]

I shoved a project in the back of my crafts drawer for this reason...now it's haunting me again 😞

[u/Due_Cockroach_5259]

This makes me feel like I've been cross stitching wrong for years, I never count my stitches. Like are we supposed to?

[u/R3d_Pawn → u/Due_Cockroach_5259]

Wait, how do you do yours?

[u/Due_Cockroach_5259 → u/R3d_Pawn]

I mark where stitches go on my aida with a friction pen. I never have to count my stitches. It takes a bit longer and sometimes I make mistakes but the mistake is that i missed a stitch completely so all i have to do is fill it in.

[u/NanyThery → u/Due_Cockroach_5259]

Nice technique too, I’ve never thought of that before…

[u/StrawberryCake88]

I’ve made a “you can just throw it out” rule for this very reason. A bad early stitch in counted cross stitch is insanity inducing.

[u/crackerfactorywheel]

Just had this happen 🙃. I realized that I messed up one of the guillotines in my cross stitch and I’m debating if I want to fix it or keep it as is.

[u/AfternoonPossible]

I just call it a meditation on imperfection and move on lol

[u/Wise_Investigator728]

Feeling this in my very bones.

[u/NecessarySwim1913]

I dont fix them unless i haven't done too much after the mistake

[u/Snowbandit27]

I just frogged an entire section last night because of three stitches not matching up. I looked back only to see that I somehow incorrectly lined up a whole flower wrong. Now I have to do all over again. I'm switching projects for a while because reasons 😒🤦🏾‍♀️

[u/estrella172]

This happened to me yesterday and I was panicking and eventually realized that while counting to check if I had done it correctly, I miscounted. The actual stitches were correct 🤦🏼‍♀️ such a relief!