a lesson from a pattern

and that lesson is no matter how careful people are giving instructions for the pattern they can be wrong and it's up to you to fix it or run. How much like my life is this current project where I follow directions and find out the main block measurement is wrong? I'm not really a person who likes to follow other's directions and if I do my work is much less successful than when I do what I think is right and go my own road. Blocks cut, block corners added, everything pressed, it's half an inch smaller than the directions said it would be. Now is the time to throw my hands up and run. Drawing on my decades (Gads that sounds horrible) of fixing problems of others I persevered on and redrew the dimensions and recut the pieces. I can be grateful they were too large rather than too small. Now it's pieced I look back and know that when I follow my instincts, and not other's instructions, I can fix just about everything. This holds me in good stead for the future years. Damn the mistakes and full speed ahead.