Pride and Prejudice finish and some Granny Goodness.

Woot! Here's another little happy dance. This was so lovely to do and as I stitched it I realised that I do not have or have never had any of Tanya's charts in the UFO pile! I get her charts stitched up ever so quickly. I have quite a few of them now and I am thinking of a The Sampler Girl wall. Speaking of walls, I will show you what has gone up on my wall later if you stick with me.

Pride and Prejudice

The Sampler girl

Now what I want to discuss with you is MISTAKES. Do you ever make them, intentionally or not?? Well, I mentioned in my last post that I had made a few with this piece - some intentional and entirely deliberate - some not! So I thought I would share. This is what comes of not reading the instuctions prior to starting stitching!!

Mistake no.1.



See that green border... supposed to be worked in Satin Stich. Was I going to unpick it? No never. I like it just as it is.

Possibly another mistake is the blue bonnet. I used the correct code given but in the picture it is a pink colour, not blue. Never mind I like it and I won't count it as a mistake.

Mistake no.2.



Mr Darcy has longer legs than he should have! I had stitched the tree above him miscounting a stitch and whne it came to stitching him, his legs came out too short so I added a stitch. Woops! I did frog and restitch the tree so it sat inline with the other one but I kept Mr Darcy as the slightly taller version. I prefer my men this way.

Mistake no.3.



The little pink border had an extra stitch somewhere but I didn't see it. Carried on blindly along as they say. Anyway, I just needed to make sure my letters to the right of it sat okay and had to watch I didn't line them up with the top half of this pink border and everything worked out fine.

Mistake no.4.



This one was deliberate. The instructions said to do the diamonds in rice stitch - not my favourite stitch. I must also add that the chart looks like it is all cross stitches and doesn't show where spec stitches go. Seeing as I had not done the satin stitch border, I decided to opt for simple crosses. Which leads me to the next mistake...

Mistake no.5.



Here the instructions call for Herringbone stitch but I could not figure out how to do them both horizonatally and vertically as again the chart was just in stitch symbols. By this time I felt that there was no point in doing any of the spec stitches as it would stand out too much (ahem!) so I carried on the theme of plain old cross.

So there you have it. I put my maiden initials and my dh's and our wedding date too.





So you see, mistakes can be darling and personal and I love them. I loved every stitch and have a few more TSGs in my stash to look forward to for my wall.

Speaking of which, I had this idea a while back but it has taken all this time for me to actually do them.

Here are my granny square pictures..







It was really hard to get the pictures as there were reflections all over them. The point was that I wanted something white to break up all the red I had painted the walls in. I love the red but it needed something to break it up and this idea just popped into my head. I think it works quite well.

Well, thank you for staying with me if you got this far. On my next post I am going to be having a MAJOR party so please pop by soon. Big thanks to every single one of my readers and commentors. I know what an effort it can be to make just one comment on a blog and I want you to know I appreciate every single one of them and don't take them for granted.

Have a good week, y'all.

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