TNT: Cheers and Tears

 

First the cheers. The Garden of Joy is now complete. I loved everything about this pattern if you don't count all those little flowers and dots in the border. 

Now for the tears. While I was ironing out The Garden I thought I might as well neaten up the four Jardin Prive Seasonal Patchwork samplers that I had finished a while back. Bad idea. 

I can't even tell you how I did this but I did it. It was an out of body moment. I couldn't believe my eyes. Then I was furious at myself. 

How furious you might ask? Furious enough to make myself re-stitch the whole thing. The problem was I didn't have the fabric or half the pattern. It seems I lost half of it somewhere along the way. I did have the leftover floss so I ordered the fabric from 123 Stitch but the pattern was out of stock. I did find it on another stitching website for a small fortune along with some hefty shipping charges. Grrr.....

I am well aware of how ridiculous all of this is because this is where my completed stitching goes to die. I roll them back up and stuff them into tubes or put them in a drawer knowing full well that one day my survivors will toss them. In my head I think that they will at least look through them first and I don't want them to see an unfinished Patchwork series. Ridiculous I know but my old lady brain just won't have it any other way.

Then the universe added even more insult to injury with the Patchwork of the Crosses quilt top. I went to sew on the third strip of fabric for the border and realized I didn't have enough of the white on white fabric I had been using. I had to order more and since I don't want a seam I had to order 2 whole yards more to get the length. Shipping charges at Connecting Threads have gone up to $7.99 so that whole order was ridiculously expensive and that was on top of all that stitching stuff I had to buy for something I had already stitched. Not a good day for the Tiny Needles. Not at all.