Ooops

There I was, happily stitching along for the second day on the May mini-village. The first tree was done, the first house and almost done with the second.

Then I took a close look at the roof of the first house. Huh? Thought I did that last month. Then the carrots on the roof of the second house. And the penny finally dropped.  For what ever reason, I had managed to scan the April pattern again, labeling it May. Uploaded it into Pattern Keeper and just stitched away.  About 1400 stitches worth.

ARGH!

I know have the correct pattern scanned and have made a few choices. I am not going to frog this mess. Instead, I am going to stitch three panels of four villages each, rather than two panels of six. I have a lot of ordinary 16-18 ct fabric on hand. Headed to the serger and finished off the edges.

But I just didn’t have the heart to start the village. Instead, I pulled out fabric and started on the frame for this year’s LolaCrow SAL. Birds…. should be fun

About Holly

fiber person - knitter, spinner, weaver who spent 33 years being a military officer to fund the above. And home. And family. Sewing and quilting projects are also in the stash. After living again in Heidelberg after retiring (finally) from the U.S. Army May 2011, we moved to the US ~ Dec 2015. Something about being over 65 and access to health care. It also might have had to do with finding a buyer for our house. Allegedly this will provide me a home base in the same country as our four adult children, all of whom I adore, so that I can drive them totally insane. Considerations of time to knit down the stash…(right, and if you believe that…) and spin and .... There is now actually enough time to do a bit of consulting, editing. Even more amazing - we have only one household again. As long as everyone understands that I still, 40 years into our marriage, don't do kitchens or bathrooms. For that matter, not being a golden retriever, I don't do slippers or newspapers either. I don’t miss either the military or full-time clinical practice. Limiting my public health/travel med/consulting and lecturing to “when I feel like it” has let me happily spend my pension cruising, stash enhancing (oops), arguing with the DH about where we are going to travel next and book buying. Life is good!
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