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Envision my head hitting up against a solid wood (or metal) door. Envision me repeating it over and over again. A good old doesn't even begin to cover what mistake I discovered last night. I finally decided to start working on Chatelaine's Christmas Mystery (yeah, I'm a few years late, but better late than never) since I hadn't worked on it. Well, I finished up part 4 last night and started 5 when I realized that it was looking off. So I double verify and okay I've counted the length right (65 stitches across), but it still looked off. So I count over from the left and the right from the outside stitch to the stitch where I last worked. Well, it turns out that the left has 14 stitches and the right has only 12. Okay, what am I doing wrong? So I count upward to where the 5 little trees in the middle are at that I used as a start point to start part 5. Okay, no problem there. That's the right count from the last stitch there to where I needed to start. So, what's off? Wait, wait..... quick, go back and count to make sure that the 5 little threes with beading and metallic and algerian eyelets are centered - BANG! BANG! BANG! This is where I'm off. The trees are one stitch off to the right!!!!!! ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So now I have to rip out the 5 little trees and start that area over again. But at least I got the start of part 5 lined up, so I'm not off centered on that. It shouldn't take too long to do, but it is frustrating to say the least. I can't begin to tell you how many times I counted before starting. Obviously I'll have to go back to school to learn.