Doing and Undoing.....

Picky Picky......

It was one of Those weekends, Dear Readers, when RL requirements overruled Mini World wishes and very very little was done on any of my many ongoing projects. The one thing I managed to find Time for was some stitching on the petit-point kit I have been working on. I thought I was making great progress, completing the golden blossoms on the lower right and beginning the blue blossom on the lower left. But for some reason, this last blossom was giving me a great deal of trouble! I had to unpick my stitches more than once and kept discovering another place where they were not lining up right! What was the matter, I wondered as I counted my stitches again and again.... how could they be ending up too close to the left hand vine when I had counted so carefully???? Well, I discovered that the starting point for the blossom was off because I had made a mistake in counting the stitches in the vine stem.... it was curled too close to the center and not close enough to the start of the vine!

There was no other option.... 

I was going to have to unpick all the blue stitching

 and a good part of the vine in that corner.

Here you can see the stitching next to the diagram....

This is stitched on 40 count silk gauze... 

the finished stitching area is less than one and 1/2 inches square!

(This is a kit by Janet Granger... I love her kits!)

Here you can see I have started to unpick the blue...

It is slow going because you have to unpick the stitches

 in the reverse order that you stitched them... 

and with the basket-weave stitch they jump around a bit!

The vine section is easier to unpick.... 

but I needed to be sure of where I had miscounted....

and had to leave enough of a tail of thread

 that I could tie it off and start again....!

I had only counted five stitches across

 the top of the swirled vine 

when I should have counted six!

At least I have undone it to where I need to start over.... 

I will leave the Doing over for another day!

The only other mini thing I managed to do

 was to add six more twigged branches to my Lilac shrub.....

Not that it is easy to tell which branches....

And I still think there are a few more branches needed...

but I am waiting for supplies...

And this is only the first "Version" of this bush....

(What was I thinking...???)

And I am pretty sure that few of you, Dear Readers, 

will know that I have been "pondering"

 the kitchen layout for Rose Thorne Cottage 

for hmmmm.... three or four years at least.... 

And I may have finally found the solution to my dilemma!

"What dilemma?" I hear you ask....

The one of "how can I possibly fit

 a kitchen hutch and a sink into this little cottage"?

 

This Cottage has sat pretty much like this for a long time.... 

so long that everything is dusty and in need of a good Spring Cleaning!

(I know.... it's really dark.....)

Some of you might recall that this is the Aster Cottage kit by Corona.... 

I have modified it a bit...

but it is basically one room in the downstairs, 

and I have tucked the bath into the rear corner.

The kitchen sink will go on the right hand wall

 under the window and next to the back door...

 a tiny amount of space!

But where oh where could a hutch fit?

I bought a tall narrow hutch from Minimum World recently...

 and wondered if it would possibly fit in here.....

It tucks under the ceiling beams with an eighth of an inch to spare.... 

 

 

and even though it is wider than the wall next to the bathroom door,

 it allows for access to the stairs which are tucked behind the hearth.... 

can you see them there...?

 (I shined a spotlight in there!)

I think that I could "extend" the bathroom wall out just a bit.... 

and the hutch would be up against that

 and the stairs would be tucked in behind....!

Maybe this will work!!!

So you can see, Dear Readers,

very very little got done

and half of that was undoing...!

But I might have finally picked the right hutch

 for Rose Thorne Cottage!