change of plans

Interesting how your day can turn out completely differently than you expect.

With my plans made to tidy my office and then get on with a new Mountmellick project, I decided I’d do a quick bit of work on my Portuguese embroidery book. It was still early and the family was all still in bed (its school holidays at the moment) so I didn’t want to be clunking around noisily yet.

Well. My Quark layout file (ie the whole book file) was corrupted. Irretrievably. I tried everything I could think of or read of to try. And no luck.

Did I have a recent back up? No. (Idiot!) So I have begun recreating the file. Fortunately most of the work I have done to date are stitch illustrations and embroidery charts, so they are independent of the corrupted file. I was able to extract some of the text by opening the file in a text editor. But the text was all jumbled up and strange. But I should be able to reuse some of it.

The moral of the story: always back up your files, even if they don’t feel like they have much in them yet.

The afternoon improved markedly when Colette from Tessuti got back to me to say that they currently have some ponti in stock. I headed to Chatswood and found myself some amazing red ponti at a great price. Thanks Tessuti, you’ve made me very happy!

For all my customers and readers who are currently battling or awaiting flood waters in Queensland, Western Australia and northern New South Wales, my thoughts and prayers are with you. I cannot comprehend the sheer volume of water, and the horror of it all. Please stay safe, and never enter flood waters.