Rainy winter day here. Needed a little something to brighten up the kitchen so decided to spruce up a cheapie cotton tea towel from supermarket with this design from Emblibrary. (over 57000 stitches & 23 or 24 colour changes)

First pic is the finished tea towel hanging over the oven door handle; second picture was the finished tea towel sitting flat on the ironing board just after removing the tear-away from around the edges.
Mistake 1: tried to multitask this between rainy day chores, exercising my little dogs and repairing some curtains: result - took considerably longer than the 2 hours that my machine suggested it would take - all day -
Mistake 2: had not prepared an extra bobbin to swap over part of the way through stitching: result had to stop to wind another bobbin part of way through
Mistake 3: turned my back on the bobbin winding to stitch curtains on other machine until all was suddenly quiet a little sooner than expected when I then discovered embroidery bobbin thread - piles of it had been wound around the bobbin winder below the bobbin instead of onto the bobbin - a grand tangled mess - took a lot of time & patience to get all the bobbin thread untangled - luckily it does not seem to have done any harm to the bobbin winder which worked just fine next time.
Mistake 4???? I did not want to use cut-away stabilizer on a tea towel because it would make that part of the teal towel too bulky for drying glassware etc but I suspect my choice to use plain medium weight tear-away may have been wrong - maybe I should have used iron-on stabilizer because although securely and squarely hooped, the fabric has pulled out of plumb in the middle a bit, giving the fabric stripe a bit of a wobble.
What stabilizer would you have used?
At least it is finished (allbeit imperfect.)
Guess it has been "just one of those days...."