I’m now on take 2 of a mystery project. No pictures–yet–but I’m feeling really annoyed with myself right now.

It’s a cross stitch project, not knitting, and it’s for someone at work. It’s a fun, easy project, and I’m super happy to make it.

But naturally I screwed up.

I finished the project last night, and I was really happy with it, and rinsed it out and laid it on a towel to dry. My mother had given me some old towels to use for crafty stuff, and I figured she’d used and washed them before.

Well, you know what they say about assuming.

I woke up this morning to find that the towel had leached yellow dye all over the project. I tried rinsing it out again–nothing. So now I’m starting it over again. Thankfully the kit came with enough thread to make 2 projects, and I had some extra material lying around.

I think I’m going to try and salvage the original for myself, by dying it with tea so that it looks antique. That way at least it won’t be a waste.

It just comes at a really bad time. I’m a bit of a perfectionist. When I try for something and make a mistake, no matter how minor, I feel like the world is going to come crashing down. It’s frustrating, because I try to tell myself to let it go, but I can’t. Even though I know it’s not the end of the world.

It’s also frustrating because of the time. There’s another side to perfectionism, and that’s when it becomes paralyzing. I’ve usually been able to avoid that aspect of it with work and school, but when it comes to my life at home, it’s a disaster. I know that my house will never look or be perfect, so I give up. It’s a disaster. I was planning on working on it today, but now I’m re-doing this project.

Annoying.

Can I get an extra day or 3 of weekend, please?