Analogy

I've been doing a lot of needlepoint recently and pondering on progress.

I've been thinking that sometimes the background...

...makes as much difference as the detail...

...that everything looks better once you tie up any lose ends...

...and that sometimes focusing on what you have still to do...

stops you seeing, and appreciating, what has already been done.

Which is possibly an analogy for learning to play pipes...or possibly not.