A FINISH!!! And a WIP!

 Well, here it is.  My first cottage, finished!!  I am way behind, but that's okay.  I am just psyched that I did it.  This is my favorite so far.  As you can see I am leaving out the month names, I just didn't want them.  I am moving the top down about 8 stitches and improvising with the various elements already in the designs.  I am over half way finished with February and am making the flowers on the sides a bit shorter to make it work better.  I really like this too, I'm just not sure about my color choice of green.  It's a bit darker than the original, but it will have to work because I am not frogging it.  As you can see I have March in my queue.  I will be doing a floss toss for this one soon.  

Thanks for stopping by, hope everyone is well,

Hillery

January Cottage

Well, now look what you've done.  It's a classic case of, everyone else is doing it, so why shouldn't I?  I have broken down and ordered January and February Cottages from Country Cottage Needleworks, and have had a nice start these past few days on January.  Now, I'm not too sure about actually stitching the month names, I might figure out a way to omit the names on these charts.  I'd like to lower the top border a bit and perhaps add a couple extra motifs to each chart.  Who knows if I'll get done a whole year, but this is proving to be a fun and quick stitch.  Hope to have it finished for next post. I think I'll have to e-mail Vonna and get on the Cottages SAL blog as well,

Thanks for stopping by,

Hillery