Ditto.....

Doing It Ten Times Over.....

I Feel Like I am Repeating Myself lately, Dear Readers, doing the same few things over and over, making little mistakes and doing it again. I hope you will not find my repetition boring to see! The stitching on the Cottage Tea Cozy is a good example of this problem. You can see I had made some good progress on the back side of the Cottage. I was working the colors in the same way I did for the front, starting with the roof and the door and window framework. This makes total sense to me and was going just fine!

Here I have filled in most of the window with the curtains.

And started to add the greenery.....

Which is when I made the discovery

 that I had counted wrong when I placed the window frame....

It is one stitch too close to the side wall!

And it is way too late to un-stitch all that work.

I decided that the best I could do was to 

"Fudge" the rest of the plantings....

 

In particular... those blue Delphiniums by the door...

There would need to be more spires... 

so I added a couple of lavender ones.

I still might add another plant between it 

and the little purple one under the window....

Here you can see what the pattern requires....

I actually think I like my Delphinium better this way!

But I won't tell you how many times

 I had to unstitch this design!

Ditto for the Castle Window and Door Frames.......

I know it is dark.....(Castles are always dark!)

But I promised you I would add that stone to the arch over the stairs...

It took a lot of fitting... cutting ... measuring.... trying again!

But I think I got it right at last.

And last week I didn't even have the heart to point out 

the missing sliver of "stone" over this door... there in the corner!

Yes, it took a lot of cutting and doing over!

 

And I couldn't wait to get started on the window frames....

Here is the one on the far wall with the shutters removed... 

Just so you can see what needs improving.

Here I have added the easy bottom stones....

(Why did All the windows and doors have to be arched?)

Well... I know why... it is a stronger structure... 

and they look beautiful.....

Here I have added a couple of the arch stones on either side....

It just isn't working to try to cut the "key" stone

 until all the others are in place.

It does need to fit precisely.... 

and the layers of paint added do change the placement of each "stone"

 just enough to throw the whole arch off....

So it just takes longer!

I had hoped to get all the window frames for this room done in one weekend....

I got one and one half finished.

The easy stones on the side window are attached.

And the shutters are re-attached to the far window!

Don't they look just right?

(I know... you can barely see.... it was late...

 I was tired of doing them over and over again!)

I'll get the lights re-attached so you can see in there!

And the Map?

No... I made no progress at all!

Rather than hurry and have to do it all over again...

I'll take my time and do it Right the First Time!

 

So I hope you don't mind, Dear Readers, 

if my Posts become a bit repetitive....

Fixing those doors and windows will take a while

While I am Doing it Ten Times Over!