June 13, 2025
The Big Fat Hairy No – Wrong Stitch!
It’s inevitable.
At some point in your embroidery journey – maybe at many points, if you’re anything like me – you’re going to make less-than-ideal choices now and then when it comes to embroidery stitches.
Sometimes, stitches you’d think would work in certain circumstances end up being Just Plain Wrong.
You see, I’ve discovered that I’m not the most accurate visualizer. Some people have a real gift for accurately visualizing outcomes, but I’m pretty sure that I don’t really fit that category. Once I’ve latched on to an idea, I have to try the thing to see how it’s going to look.
So I tend to grasp at the first idea of a thing and think Oh! Hey! Yeah! That would be a great idea! … only to find, an hour or so down the road, after trial-and-error-and-error-and-error, that no, it really wasn’t a great idea.
Case in point:
