Free-piecing Spring

I've been working on learning to free-piece letters, but its going slowly.  I've had several false starts on letters, with seams having to be ripped out - or even the whole letter restarted.  I finally got one whole word done, though.  And now I'm working on another word. It's actually half done (the easy half of course!)
My"I" is still shorter than the other letters (and tis was my second try already).  I haven't fully decided if I'm going to leave it like that or try to redo it.