Friday 24th February - CCC Stitchery

My parcel of cross stitch was delivered today, so I can post pictures now; the final version;

(The orange lines of stitching are there to mark out the grid.)

Here's the whole story...

I eventually simplified my over ambitious plans and came to the conclusion a sampler would be an appropriate piece for a newbie. I took various elements from various pictures and started plotting;

I was really pleased with the design until I realised it should have been a portrait rather than landscape orientation. Oh dear.

After that it became a series of little challenges, all requiring modifications as I went along. The white space above the house... 

disappeared after I stitched it.... Baffling, considering that this time I did all my plotting on a photocopy of the actual fabric.

So, I came up with the idea of adding two ladies going towards a post box to fill this new space. They (we) were mirror images of each other on the chart,

But not any more! And one of us appears to be double jointed!