UN-PUNCHING

It was one of those days.  Without going into boring detail,  I'll just say I made one of those mindless mistakes while punching today and punched an entire section wrong. 

Oh, to be truly mindful!  Apparently I wasn't. 

So after realizing my error--and playing with the concept that occasionally, mistakes turn out better than the original idea--I knew that I really didn't like it and didn't want to leave it as it was.  This particular mistake just didn't work out well.

So...out it all came.  Punch needle hooking is very easy to un-do.  But then I had to re-do.  It all worked out, but for the hours I put in today, I didn't get very far.  Here's the way the rug looked as I was leaving.  This is the overall view (you can see I'm not even halfway done yet, not even close to halfway!):

In the left bottom corner of the photo you can just see the rest of the foundation that is hanging off the table.  The rug is about 40"x72". 

B-I-G.

Really all I got done today was the second moon.  There are four moons altogether.  Here is a closeup:

I went looking for a quote with which to console myself.

"Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness."
(T. H. Huxley)

Sigh.