Why is it that borders often feel like such a chore? I'm having trouble motivating myself to work on Rose Lights because that border seems never ending; I finished the inner black border, but then still had to do the outer cream border--ugh!
I'm almost done with one of the two cream silks, so hopefully getting the first one done will help motivate me, but it has definitely been a slog for the past week. It was also frustrating because I found what I believe are errors in the placement of the motifs along the bottom: the heart shapes start anywhere from two to four spaces down from the black, while the other shapes start from one to three spaces down, with no repeating pattern that makes sense. I didn't discover this until I had three of the "hearts" stitched, so then I had to frog two of them.
While this isn't a truly symmetrical design, I have made quite a few changes to make areas within it more symmetrical. I don't see any of them mentioned on the errata page of the Chatelaine site, but perhaps some of them have been addressed in the digital chart (I'm working from a paper chart from 2004). Regardless, I'll muddle through--I know once the border is done my enthusiasm will return.
Hope everyone has a great stitchy week!
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