Well, I had to take out another seam and redo it. It seems (no pun intended) that I chose a light and airy seam treatment on a seam that needed a little more punch, to balance out the other side of the kimono. I replaced it with this seam treatment, which was a lot of fun with all the different beads. I'm finding that on a small project, some of the seam treatments just don't work - they need more space than a few inches. So I will have to save those for my next project.
A tip for whose eyes are as bad as mine....
I am a detail person. I've always had trouble with the "big picture" and love to get down to the knitty gritty, especially when looking at all the fabulous embroidery on the web. Sometimes a block I see just doesn't have enough detail for me to tell what the stitcher did. So I do a "copy image" and "paste" into a word document, use "print preview" and then look at the stitches at 200-300%. It's a great way to see the details.....
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On most blogs, yours included, I just click on the picture and it comes up much larger. A few people's go to a flickr page. A few won't enlarge.
Who said CQ had no rules!!
I am big picture person, I like to see the seam in context as well as detail. Funny how we are all so different.
It would be a great learning tool for CQers if you had photod a before and after of the seam , to show how the weight of a seam can balance a block.
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