I'm making things harder for myself than they need to be. I finally figured out how to crochet my pie blackbirds and wrote down directions for myself and have completed 5 of the 24 bodies, not complicated, but every one I stress out as if I had never done one before.

Ah well, completing this in a timely manner is important in changing patterns I went to therapy to change not to mention I think the finished product will be acceptably close to my original vision.