Rearranging Stones

Back in the good old summertime

this is what a stone pathway looked like

Lovely but to me not looking like a pathway.

So

For three days last week I unpicked all that work!

The tools of an unpicker include

a beautiful thread cutter

(A gift from the Mahone Bay Quilt Group)

and

duct tape

the inventors of which would never have imagined

their tape would be part of a stitchers tool box.

With all that unpicking threads were sticking to everything.

Then I remembered a tip from years back.

Snip the stitches on the wrong side

Lay some tape over the stitches on the right side.

Pull back the tape

and voila

the threads can't escape that sticky surface!

That unpicking took me three days.

 I did take breaks

like the day we walked the Rusty Pups

up the mountain

in deep virgin snow.

Since then I have spent days trimming and

stitching stones into

what I think looks more like

pathways.

I am content.

As you can see I now have a mountain of trimmings

for which I will find another project.

May your days be filled with stitching things together

and

not so much taking them apart!