So last night I finished the third and last Margaret Sherry little mousie from the World of Cross Stitch 3-in-1 kit.
This one unfortunately had a few more 'blips' in the stitching than the other two.
Firstly I don't recommend stitching while exhausted. A long 10 hours of work plus 2 hours travel time does not make for a switched on brain. I completely missed that I'd grabbed the pink instead of the peach - twice. So his feet and ears were in pink instead of peach. It wasn't too noticeable UNTIL I stitched the pink in the correct place (his cheek). Then I'm sitting there going, 'those colours look a lot alike... awhhhh shoot'
And here be my little bundle of shame, all a frogged:
Also during my tired stitching I didn't notice I'd picked up the white that had a bit of brown on it. It came in the kit with a smudge of brown on one end. Either somehow contaminated while getting dyed or stained some other way in transport. I was going to trim it off but accidentally used it instead. The end result is a browny cross on his belly where there should be white. It's not too noticeable and doesn't really affect the overall design so I didn't unpick the white. If I'd had to I probably would have abandoned the design. I have a lot to do at the moment and indulging in cross stitch is just that, indulging.
It was also a little confetti-ish in some places and I missed a few crosses (4 or 5) Not hard to correct but annoying none the less.
So here be little mousekewitz number 3 in his finished 6x6 glory:
And one lonely little WIP shot:
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