Darn Rotten Frog!!

For those who don't know, the term "frog" in stitching means to rip-it, rip-it, rip-it!!! And rip-it I did. Last night, I was happily stitching the inner border on Puglia with the hopes that it would be finished LAST night so I could start motifs tonight. I was watching Dancing with the Stars and merrily going about my stitching business. I glanced down at the chart to count out how many 2 stitch places there were and then looked at what I had already stitched. Somehow something looked off. Well after some colorful words and the look of horror on my face, I realized I made a mistake. A mistake with RED floss on WHITE fabric!!! Sigh... At one point and one point only this Italian designer skipped a stitch around that damn inner border. I KNOW why she did it. She did it because I have yet to stitch whatever region will go underneath Puglia. Those regions are going to have to match up eventually. But at the time, I just stared and cursed that extra space in the border. I started to rip out the stitches last night taking care not to get any red fuzz on the white fabric. About 10 minutes later, I gave up and went to bed. YES I went to bed at 9 PM.

When I woke up this morning, I barely had coffee before I was sitting ripping out the rest of the stitches. Lucky for me, there is no red fuzz and it ended up only being one side (bottom) of the border. But I couldn't go about my business for the day til it was ripped out. So hopefully later this afternoon or this evening, I will redo that darn border and hopefully will be able to get at least ONE motif started before bedtime.

I hate frogs (real or stitching), I hate bugs and I hate snakes. There I said it and it makes me feel better...

After the frogging of the border, I managed to fall clean my dining room. As I type, my tablecloth, table runner and curtain are hanging on the line. It smells good in the house and will smell even better with the fresh table linens. Tomorrow I get to tackle the dust bunnies under the sofas in the living room. This is seriously cutting into any afternoon stitching I get. Whoever invented fall/spring cleaning had serious issues. I see nothing wrong with a few dust bunnies.

Have a great day everyone!!