Current mood:	working
Current music:	quiet now
Entry tags:	chart errors

Per request
The following is a list of errors/possible errors/problems I've found with the chart for Joan Elliott's "Oriental Spring Beauty". This is the chart that comes with the kit.

1. There is a chartreuse stalk that comes down in the bunch of flowers just to the right of her head on the package picture. That stalk is not on the chart.

2. The tiny dragonfly on the object she's holding (a fan? a mirror?) appears to have some backstitching to define the wings on the picture. On the chart, the wings are half stitches with no backstitching. I added the backstitching on mine because otherwise, they really didn't look like wings (or much of anything else for that matter). *EDIT: They're quarter stitches, not half...which should be another complaint altogether...quarter stitches on Aida.*

3. On the left side of her face, there's supposed to be a backstitched line that outlines her face. The chart has it going around one square of grey (as if the grey is part of her face rather than her hair). I'm pretty sure it's not supposed to do that.

4. The instructions are in French and English. The English instructions say to backstitch the outside edge of the circle, the lines in the water, and the dragonfly tails with 2 strands of gold metallic. The French instructions say to do it with 1 strand. Since French is not my first language, I went with 2 strands. Plus after doing the cross stitching with the gold metallic, it doesn't look like just 1 strand would be enough to notice it.

5. I ran out of dark blue floss, but I had some that matches pretty well and I was only about 1 strand short. It looks like I'm going to run out of the gold metallic, but I can't tell for sure yet.

That's what I've got so far.

Is it just me or are little differences between the chart and the picture sort of common? I don't know that I've had a chart I didn't have to "fix" on a large piece. Little pieces seem to be better about it.