I’ve kept stitching away whenever my husband plays Skyrim, which means slow but steady progress on my blackwork map. When I showed you previously I had five towns done; now I’m up to 14.
I had to rip and re-stitch part of Pomfret, where I accidentally stitched over 3 strands at some point and couldn’t disguise the problem. I actually hemmed and hawed so much about whether to redo it that I finished stitching the whole town, but concluded that it would be silly to spend so much time on this project (it’s at least an hour per town for me) only to leave in an error that really was plenty obvious. Fortunately I was able to take out the bad part without disturbing too much of the rest, and still have enough loose thread to re-secure the ends.
Before taking the photo above I washed the fabric. I’ve had problems in the past with long-term projects becoming irrecoverably grungy, so I plan to wash this every time I’ve finished enough to give another update.
Remember that you can make your own map or hijack the filling patterns for other purposes by visiting Upper Valley Fiber Crafts.