Happy October to my Kindred Stitchy Friends!

"I am so glad I live in a world

where there are Octobers."

L.M. Montgomery

Anne of Green Gables

Happy October Kindred Stitchy Friends! I am so happy when October finally arrives. It means all things fall and our weather (usually) tries to start cooling off a tad bit (as much as it can for Oklahoma). It also means Christmas is even closer 😉 I am so blessed to have a Bosom Friend and it is a bonus her birthday is in October! This year I decided to make her a special gift. We both dearly love all things Anne of Green Gables so when I ran across this design, October Cottage, by Country Cottage Needleworks I thought it would be perfect! All I had to do is tweak the colors a bit to make it look more like the Anne of Green Gables cottage.

I stitched this piece on a hand dyed 28ct even weave with a coffee/tea dye method. I used the following Weeks Dye Works threads: Grapevine, Swiss Chocolate, Carrot and Sally's Sunshine. I also used the following DMC threads: 3362, 3865, and 3052. Obviously I stitched the whole cottage white and the windows and door trims with green. I also stitched the pumpkins both in orange and white. Then I omitted the bird from the design.

After I stitched October Cottage I mounted it on Pres On Self Stick Mounting Board with one layer of quilt batting between layers. I hot glued the finished piece to a beautiful wooden frame piece from the fall section at Hobby Lobby (watch my first FlossTube to see it without the attached piece). Then I made a decorative swag piece with flowers from a pick from JoAnn and berry picks from Hobby Lobby. The vintage orange gingham bow is made from ribbon from JoAnn. The pumpkin in the middle is a wooden cutout from Dollar Tree that I chalk painted white and then dry brushed a bit of khaki color on top. This completed the whole look! I love it so much I want to stitch it again (more than likely the exact way) for myself!

Check out my FlossTube #4 below to see it in my video. I have several more fall items to share on my blog through October so stay tuned!

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