January & February Cottages

Hi!! I'm new here!! My name is Monica, I'm from Brazil and I love cross stitch. I started my cottages last month and here are January & February Cottages.

You can see more pics on my blog! Now I'm waiting for March Cottage... It takes a little longer for my patterns & threads arrive to me. Thanks for letting me join the group!!!

Hugs from Brazil!!

April Finish just in time

I finished stitching my April cottage at about 15 minutes after midnight and would have finished earlier if I had not had to frog one of my flowers.
I have even pressed my piece and I must say it does make the stitches pop out better even the white looks better.

All I altered was my clouds I made them round and hopefully fluffier.

January Cottage Finished

Hi all,

I just finished January!  It turned out much better than I thought it was going to on this Rainbow Sparkles fabric.  I was afraid the snow flakes/white would disappear but you can see them!

I have moved the fabric over to the left and am starting on February today!

Chele

Hello,

I am very happy I could finally join this SAL, thank you, Vonna, for opening Part Two!:-)))

I am Expell-HUN from Hungary, Eastern Europe, I have started stitching the cottages as soon as I got the invitation (I had the stash as I planned to join Part One, but I put it away when I learnt I was too late...:-).  I chose a 36 ct Zweigart linen to stitch all 12 cottages on one piece, so far I finished the first 3 months, here they are:

Some closer shots:

March was my favourite, I loved the design and the colours, though I changed some to a more decent shade to my taste, I used Nina's Threads: Butter Squash, Spring Grass and the windows are Valdani's Chocolate Brownie.

February....ah, this cottage was so hard to stitch, I could not help it.  24 hearts on such a small chart, too much.  And all in pink-pink.... If you are not this type of girl, you will not be close friends with this February Cottage.  I had changed all the colours - again to a more decent look, except the white DMC, I used Nina's Threads: Fuchsia, Peony, Ashbury, Nutmeg and Pine. 

All in all it is a nice, easy to stitch piece and I cannot wait to see the ready, framed design on my wall.   I hope I can stitch the current months now on, I love April and May!

Happy Easter! 

Moving along faster now

Thought you might like to see my progress. I am now stitching April Cottage .I am waiting on Chives so will not be able to finish this one completely but am just happy to have caught up and be stitching the cottage in its right month.

Cottage Update

I have finally framed the January cottage and will be able to pop in and out the different months. I really do like the way the frame turned out.

I have also just finished stitching the March cottage. I love green so for right now March is my favorite cottage. I might change as I finish April cottage - we'll see. I have had so much fun stitching these cute little cottages.  Now to get started on April.  Lana

My Start

Hi all,

I have just started my cottages.  I am doing them all on one piece of 28 count Rainbow Sparkle fabric. 

I will be working on this most of today too!

Chele