In honor of the first day of fall, I am sharing one of my recent finishes as my first post on my Priceless Stitching Blog! This design is Happy Harvest from Country Cottage Needleworks. It is stitched on a 28 count evenweave from Hobby Lobby's Artiste brand. I did a light coffee and tea dye on the fabric before stitching on it. I used all the called for overdyed flosses except for the red on the house, which is Classic Colorworks Cherry Cobbler. The pattern called for CC Crab Cakes, but it was too pinky for my taste. I had also just picked up this adorable tin FarmHouse decor piece on clearance at my local grocery store and placed picks inside. The Cherry Cobbler was the perfect color to match. I knew it had to be displayed next to my Happy Harvest! The only change I made to the pattern was omitting the birds.
I mounted Happy Harvest on Pres-On self stick mounting board I purchased from Amazon. Then I hot glued some torn homespun cotton print (not actual homespun) ruffled around the edges. I attached the completed piece by hot gluing magnets on the back of both the cross stitch piece and the photo frame so I can reuse the frame for other cross stitch through out the year. The photo frame was $4 from Walmart and it was originally gray, but I chalk painted it brown to go better with my decor. I made a simple swag piece to place above Happy Harvest by making a loopy bow out of both raffia and twine. I hot glued a maroon paper flower and an acorn on both sides for the center of the layered bow. The paper flower and acorns are both from Hobby Lobby. This is displayed in my living room in a built in bookshelf. Stay tuned to see all my other completed cross stitched pieces!
You can see this completed piece on my Flosstube #1 below. This was my first video so it isn't perfect 😀 I film my videos with my better video camera as well now.
Be sure to check out my other episodes as well! I am making a new Flosstube each week where I share all my current projects. I also sew, quilt and hand smock clothing for my daughter and share those projects as I am working on them.
I mounted Happy Harvest on Pres-On self stick mounting board I purchased from Amazon. Then I hot glued some torn homespun cotton print (not actual homespun) ruffled around the edges. I attached the completed piece by hot gluing magnets on the back of both the cross stitch piece and the photo frame so I can reuse the frame for other cross stitch through out the year. The photo frame was $4 from Walmart and it was originally gray, but I chalk painted it brown to go better with my decor. I made a simple swag piece to place above Happy Harvest by making a loopy bow out of both raffia and twine. I hot glued a maroon paper flower and an acorn on both sides for the center of the layered bow. The paper flower and acorns are both from Hobby Lobby. This is displayed in my living room in a built in bookshelf. Stay tuned to see all my other completed cross stitched pieces!
You can see this completed piece on my Flosstube #1 below. This was my first video so it isn't perfect 😀 I film my videos with my better video camera as well now.
Be sure to check out my other episodes as well! I am making a new Flosstube each week where I share all my current projects. I also sew, quilt and hand smock clothing for my daughter and share those projects as I am working on them.
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