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Thursday, November 13, 2014

So, now I know

I figured out why I was stalled on blocking the Saint Saens. I wasn’t confident there wasn’t a huge mistake. Yes, that last sentence had a double negative. Doubly upset is how I felt Tuesday evening.

 I went ahead and blocked the doily once. I figured I’d be blocking it 2 or 3 times. There’s a lot of negative space and different techniques. So, I really haven’t examined it closely. Well, closely enough. I knew the individual motifs for Round 2 were correct as was Round 1. I knew things got connected well as Round 2 was finished. I knew everything was correct enough to do Round 3. But, it wasn’t correct enough.

I joined one of the D motifs to the wrong point of an A motif.

Several factors stalled me Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning:
I needed to prepare for the Executive Committee meeting of the AGO chapter I serve.
I hate cutting out sections as that means patching in new tatting and hiding ends (like 6 ends)
The area with the mistake is all split rings. I hate unpicking split rings. Not even calling it retro tatting helps me to feel calm about it.
We needed to pay attention to the computer I use for Picotsnkeys tasks AND the computer I use to pay bills and keep track of our budget. Both are aging. As my daughter puts it, “that laptop is working because of duct tape, rubber bands, and spit.”
I just don’t have much patience left over trying to navigate the next 5 years of transition in my life.

All told, I didn’t spend a lot of mental energy on figuring out my next step until Wednesday morning. After mulling it over and thinking hard, I deduced that 30 DS needed to be got rid of. That’s how many DS are in 5 split rings in this part of the pattern. So, after I spent 4 hours with scissors and pointy things and magnifying glasses, I’ve gotten to the point I think I need to be to repair this effectively.

I woke up achy this morning after all that upset and work. I’m not sure I’ll have what it takes to correct it all today. I’d like to attend a Guild meeting at the Lace Museum and Rehearsal. We’ll see what I accomplish today. Regardless, by next post I’ll have it fixed and the doily blocked. Maybe I’ll even get it mounted. So, more then.

4 comments:

  1. The undoing is so exhausting. But, if you want it right...
    So sorry! Glad you are to the point of starting again. That will make it easier to pick up.

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    1. Thanks for the kind encouragement. I did pick it up yesterday. I have a new section of thread added and 3 of the 5 split rings recreated. The last 2 will be hard, so I set it aside to go make music. Now to navigate hiding 4 ends and creating 12 DS in 2 rings. (Looking at myself in the mirror) I can do this!

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  2. I can't see the mistake, but I can feel your trouble. Courage!! And pin it down well before blocking!

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    1. The last 12 DS are finished. I've lost my circular blocking template. So, I think I'll head up to the store to buy a new one. It feels good to have corrected the mistake.

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