Well, as Eel said in her previous post, she's had lots of time to get a big jump on me. I think that when we were comparing notes, the biggest margin she's had so far was about 1000 stitches. As of one week ago, the difference was about 800 stitches, so I've had to play catch up time.

What makes it worse was that last week, for some reason, I kept getting headaches around lunch time, which would last until I got back from work. When I get headaches, the only thing that will cure them is Panadol + sleep. This carried on for about three days straight, and I started to get worried that something was wrong with me. Thankfully, since then, I haven't had another one yet (touch wood!), but the amount of stitching during that time obviously was much less.

It's been a struggle to finish my 2nd page, mainly because of the confetti stitches. I ended up doing quite a bit of a new page, instead of finishing off the 2nd page. Finally, last week, I decided not to put things off any longer, and finished it!

One thing that I discovered last week was that I had made quite a big mistake in my design. There were two symbols in my design, one was a longer, thinner cross, and one was a short, fat cross. I didn't know that there were two different crosses, and used the wrong colour for one section.

If you take a look at an older picture, can you notice the brighter purple patch in the middle of all the subtle pinks? Yes, that should be a really light colour, almost whitish.


I was deliberating what to do over that patch. The good thing is that my design has quite a lot of patchy background, so it doesn't look quite so bad. I didn't want to go over it with a double strand of thread, as I thought that it would make that section quite bumpy and obvious, so in the end, I went over it with one strand of thread. It doesn't cover it entirely, but it's definitely not so obvious now.


It's now changed to a lighter shade of purple, similar to the purple bits on the left, so I'm quite happy about that. Also, I started to get paranoid about the cloth becoming dirty. Especially the parts where the Q-snaps are, because I'm constantly holding that part. I wanted to buy some felt to put under the clamps, but I have no idea where to get any. So, instead, I cut up one of my old tops, and used that instead. :D I'm sure it will still get dirty, but at least this will help keep it cleaner for a while longer!