When I design a new piece I always try to make good notes as I do so.

Try being the important word in that sentence.

Unfortunately what usually happens is I either don't bother to at all, imagining that I will magically remember what I did, or I write notes that are physically impossible to read (I have terrible handwriting) or I use some crazy form of short-hand which makes sense at the time but is incomprehensible when I read it later.

When I beaded my first version of this star I was actually very good and made detailed notes, which even make sense. But for some reason as I wrote them up on the computer I disbelieved what I had written and altered them. But then it all got very confusing and I found myself beading a new one to work out where I had got it twisted around.

Cue me beading a new piece from my incorrectly altered instructions all the time thinking 'I was sure I had sorted that issue out...' only to return to my original notes and see that not only were they correct all along but I had solved my issue with the original design only to not believe what I had written- very annoying!

So I now have a lovely new reversible Tila star which though I like it it has the annoying flaw I had previously managed to eradicate.

I'm not sure anyone else would even know what I did wrong with this piece, and I'm keeping quiet on what it is, but it taught me a good lesson about 1- writing better notes and 2- reading those notes carefully later on.