Normally, when stitching a multi page chart, I stitch a page at a time. I make an exception to this rule when a page plays fast and loose with the natural dividing points in a design. This chart is divided into bands that overlap pages. Not only that, but the first band is actually two bands bisected vertically and slightly off center by a tall tower. The witch's tower is charted mostly on page one but with just a bit on pages two, three and four. For some reason I find this very irritating. I need to stitch this motif in its entirety, not piecemeal.
Consequently, I have been shuffling pages quite a bit, First it was pages 1 and 2 to stitch the owl. I soon noticed how perfectly symmetrical the owl's wings were and was able to simply stitch a mirror image of the left wing for the right wing. There was no need to refer to the chart for that. But then came the tower band with page 1 stopping mid-moon, mid-star, mid-bat, mid-witch and lacking the bottom 15 or so rows of stitching This irked me! [By the by, don't you love the verb "irk"? It is so very expressive.] So, after a great deal of flipping about, what you see in this photo is all of pages one and two, the top rows of page 3, and a fair bit of page 4,
I am probably the only stitcher on the planet who would prefer large charts to be printed like those old-fashioned folding road maps that we used before GPS.
4 comments:
I completely agree! It's very annoying juggling multiple pages especially when a motif spans four pages. Your sampler is looking lovely though!
I hate multiple pages!
I agree! It is difficult to do good job with multiple pages to look at. I'm particularly careful not to forget to look for the repetitions in the different pages!
This is a wonderful design!
I also dislike multiple pages. I much prefer one large page which I can make working copies of, usually making sure the middle of the design is on one page. I also make large overlaps when I copy them. None of this two rows fiddlieness, make it at least 20 rows!
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