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<\/a>After:<\/p>\nI finally arrived at\u00a0 Row 1, Column 5 on Squib’s portrait on Sunday afternoon. [Remember I am working the pattern in sections, 3 rows down and 6 rows across.]\u00a0 This is very exciting because it’s the section that contains her left eye — so I can finally see the expression on her face. I got through about fifteen rows or so (each section is 50 rows) when I realized that I’d inadvertently stacked one entire column of beads with opaque black. Again, Squib’s a black cat. But there aren’t really very many places in her portrait where she has hard black edges. So that vertical stripe was painfully out of place.<\/p>\n I didn’t go to bed last night until I had gotten her eye finished – she can see me now.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve noticed in the past that if I’m using someone else’s pattern or tutorial — beading, knitting, whatever — that I may make changes to the pattern at the beginning, but once that’s done I just go with it. With my own patterns, the “edit” part of my brain never really stops. Most of the … Continue reading The Dangers of Weaving Your Own Pattern<\/span> <\/a>There are still stripes, but far fewer, and the colors cover a much narrower range of black, greys and browns than the first pass.<\/p>\n<\/a>[This picture is taken from the original pattern, the first picture above, not the tapestry.\u00a0 It didn’t occur to me that it might be useful to take a picture of how it looked before I fixed it. Still figuring out this blogging thing, too.] I “smeared” it out by following the general colors of her right ear, which looked fine. [How did I miss that in the pattern?}<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n