November Cottage Floss Toss and Start

Here is the floss toss with the called for colors. I wasn't keen on the tomato red oddly named Grapefruit for this so I traded it out for a deeper red WDW Indian Summer. I also didn't care for the green but haven't found a replacement yet, have to dig through my stash. I traded out the Simply Shaker Harvest Moon for WDW Marigold.  I am leaning toward doing all the leaves with  a one off hand dye by yarnplayer. Diving into stitching, the roof is done in Dark Chocolate by The Gentle Art. More color changes in the border as well later, just have to see. Just for fun here are our two cats being puddle cats in the heat. ONE more day of 98 degree weather here in Southern Oregon and our fall weather finally begins. I can't wait for rainy days of stitching curled up under a blanket.

July Cottage Finish!

Whoo hoo, July is all finished. With this one I stuck to the called for colors and just added Rainbow Gallery Blending thread in purple red #610 (used one strand of the Geranium and two of the blending thread) for the red part of the fireworks and for the blue I used royal blue #107 with one strand WDW Americana and two blending threads. I think it worked to make the fireworks blingy but not too much.

These are blooming in my sad garden right now, please ignore the weeds..hehe.

These really are this bright, I've never seen such a dayglo color as these. 

July Cottage Progress

Here is a little progress pic from July Cottage. I ended up going with the WDW Americana for the darker blue as the Crescent Colors Blue Beatrice just wasn't dark enough and didn't match the example. I think I'll end up using the Blue Beatrice on some of the flowers in the border to add some variety. I'm loving this as blue is my favorite color. I just saw on the Country Cottage Needleworks blog that the August Cottage has been posted. All I can say is SWOON! It's gorgeous. They keep getting better and better and I can't wait to spend the summer stitching away on these. How are your Cottages or other projects going?

July Cottage Floss Toss

July Cottage came in the mail this week minus one of the flosses which prompted a trip to my LNS to look for the Aged Pewter I needed to start. Lucky I did go as a lot of you know who work with hand dyed fibers know, sometimes they're..off. The Blue Beatrice that came from the store I buy from online was nearly the same blue as the lighter Blue Betty. Thankfully my LNS had a different dye lot which was darker and looked more like the example photo. It's still not as dark as the one in the example on the pattern, so to be safe I got a skein of WDW in Americana. No other color changes in this one but I did add two Glissen Gloss Rainbow blending filaments to add sparkle to the fireworks. I'm usually not into Fourth of July as a cross stitching theme but I LOVE this. It's just so fun. I'm off to work on it now and power watch some United States of Tara. I love  instant watching and cross stitching..lol.

To the winners of the giveaway, your packages went out a couple of days ago, so they're on their way!

Timely Finish

In honor of it being November I thought I'd get this piece started (and finished). It is November Twirls by Bent Creek. I am still working on a few other things but this one was just too fun and timely so out it came. I used Valdani Golden Autumn for the border and for the lower left leaf and Valdani Orange Blossom for the lower right leaf. The rest of it besides the lettering is Weeks Dye Works with what the pattern called for except I swapped out the Maple for the lettering in GAST with WDW Molassas. I don't know what I'll make out of this or if I'll frame it but for the time being, it just gets to be cute..lol.