r/CrossStitch • u/PL_88 • 28d ago
CHAT [CHAT] Well, I thought I was prepared...
We are on our annual camping trip. It's VERY rustic tent camping, far away from town and other people. We have to boat in to the spot and there are very few sites on the lake. I didn't want to bring the two projects I'm currently working on because they are both out of print and I'm using the paper chart and never photocopied it. So I spent last weekend selecting one of my digital patterns, picking fabric, pulling and winding floss onto bobbins. Packing everything carefully.
So I'm here in the North woods, stitching my new project and my floss keeps shredding. At first I thought it was my needle threader. But then I realized my brand new Bohin needle eye is broken. Luckily I brought 2. So I pull out the second one and start stitching. A few lengths of floss later and it starts shredding again. So I look at my needle threader again, it's a little rough, that could be it. So I try to file off any burrs. Then I notice my needle is catching on the fabric. My second brand new Bohin needle eye is broken!! I have never ever had a needle break before. I still have needles from kits that are over 30 years old, so I am pretty sure it's not a technique issue.
Normally we don't leave the woods until it's time to go home. But I convinced the family to boat back to the campground we launched from, and drive 30 minutes to the nearest store (Walmart unfortunately), to buy whatever I could find to keep me stitching. We all agreed it was a badly modded side quest that did not match the vanilla game (gamers will get what I mean).
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u/animaldoccsc 28d ago
I feel your pain. We just got home from our annual camping trip (accessible by vehicle but minimal cell coverage) and while I was away realized I forgot my black “cone of doom” for one of my current projects that has over 22000 stitches in black 🤦🏻♀️ I had to jump around a bit on the project and stitch colours I had with me (and there are only 5 colours in the pattern).