I know I don’t do it the right way. The back side of my cross stitch is always a tangled mess, with long unattached threads stretching across the canvas this way and that. I get knots in my thread sometimes, and if I can’t get them out easily, I’ll take my thread and put it through another place in the back so the knot won’t show on the good side, but that leaves a lot of bumpy knots on the back.
The front looks great, but never look at the back side of my work.
That is kind of how I do everything. I like all of my work to seem all organized, but my methods of getting to a nice, organized piece are kind of chaotic. I don’t plan much. I just try things out to see what works, and I keep at it until I am completely done.
I finish things.
It may take me months to finish something, but I do finish things. I always have unfinished projects in the back of my mind. Right now, I have a wolf cross-stitch I need to restart. One of my cats threw up on it, and I wasn’t very far along, so I thought I would just start over rather than think about the vomit that might still be in my threads even after I wash it. Yuck.
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