How hard is it to copy a cross stitching chart? I guess it depends on who's copying it! A while back I was making a PDF for a chart and I copied the pages out of order and it took me hours to get that straightened out. It would have been so much easier to simply make a new PDF but nope . . why do that when I can spend half the day instead of half an hour trying to do it.

I was stitching 4th of July Rules Saturday. I was close to finishing the top section. The only things I had left to stitch were several small motifs and I figured I would go back to them next time I used that color floss.

Then I stitched "Go to the", which was next on my PDF. Then I looked at the model picture and . . wait . . there's supposed to be a big white house. I don't have a big white house. It's supposed to say "Fly Old Glory". Nope . . don't have that. There are six "segments". I stitched the first one, then started on the fourth one. Two and three - completely not on my PDF. 

Vince was watching football and if I stand at the printer to make a PDF, I'm in front of the TV . . not a good place to be during football. So, what should I do?

If you said "Start a new project!" you would be right. There was room on that same piece of linen so . . why not?

That's what I got stitched Saturday evening, after picking out what shouldn't have been stitched on the other one. I did think about keeping on, and stitching the segments out of order. It really wouldn't have made any difference but I didn't. I'll stitch it like the chart shows . . but I think I'll stick with All American, also by Primrose Cottage.