Log Cabin Christmas Part 8 , - Little House Needle Works

So here I am, eight months into this 9 part cross stitch project and I’m already finding myself wondering what other part series, if any, I will stitch next year.

I think it's the thought of guaranteed little finishes throughout the year, that makes them such fun to stitch, and at the end of this project I'll have one bigger finish to frame, so it's win, win!

Here's the penultimate square of the 'Log Cabin Christmas' series and it's aptly named  ‘Log Cabin Christmas’

How cute are that Owl and birdie on the roof?

Just one final square to go and it will be framed and on my wall in time for Christmas!

Happy Stitching!

Sue

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 Project Information

Chart- Log Cabin Christmas – Part 8- ‘Log Cabin Christmas

Designer – Little House Needleworks

Fabric – 32ct Zweigart Linen – Raw

Threads – Called for Classic Colorworks

Log Cabin Christmas, Mrs Snow - Little House Needle Works

I just managed to squeeze in one last new start and finish before the end of June and that brings us nicely to the middle of the year.

This little square is the 7^th in the ‘Log Cabin Christmas’ series, so just two more to go.

It’s also time for a quick round up of my progress for June.

I started the month with 7 wips, (3 of which I didn’t touch at all) and I had 5 new starts.

Then there were 5 finishes and 11 Fully Finishes, of which 7 were the components of the Bee Contained Etui.

Despite not touching my stitching for 7 out of the 30 days, all in all I think I had a good month.

 

Happy Stitching!

Sue

 

Project Information

 

Chart- Log Cabin Christmas – Part 6- In the Woods Deer

Designer – Little House Needleworks

Fabric – 32ct Zweigart Linen – Raw

Threads – Called for Classic Colorworks

In The Woods Deer – Log Cabin Christmas - Little House Needle Works

I’m well past the half way mark of Log Cabin Christmas

now and have just finished Part 6, which is ‘In The Woods Deer’.

I’m really enjoying working on this, but I think, as we head into warmer days, it’s time to put Christmas/Winter stitching aside for a little while I think because I want to do some Summer stitching.

First though I wanted to get some more stitches into my Chatelaine, ‘Hummingbird Lace Mandala’.

This is where I let it the last time you saw it back in March.

Between then and now, I’ve stitched the first 1 over 1 hummingbird,

worked on the borders of specialist stitches 

and the second flower.  

I’ve also added lots of beads, because I’ve decided to bead as I go, instead of leaving it all until the end as I did with Butterfly Lace.

I did make a little blunder though……….while adding beads to the second flower, I realised that I used the wrong beads on the first one, so at some point I’m going to sit and pick the out, which is a bit of a pain.

There’s one last thing to share with you today.

I’ve seen other stitchers' use Flower Frogs, which are designed for arranging flowers, to display/store their scissors and I wanted one too, so when I saw this beautiful Green Glass one on ebay, I knew it had to come and live with me.

So, until next time

 Happy Stitching!

Sue

 

Project Information

Chart- Log Cabin Christmas – Part 6- In the Woods Deer

Designer – Little House Needleworks

Fabric – 32ct Zweigart Linen – Raw

Threads – Called for Classic Colorworks

Hummingbird Lace Mandala - Chatelaine

Designer - Martina Rosenberg
Fabric – 28ct Jobelan Evenweave – Antique White
Threads – Called for Silks, DMC and Petite Treasure Braid
Beads – Swarovski Crystals and Delica Beads

Log Cabin Quilt – Log Cabin Christmas - Little House Needle Works

I’m finding it hard to believe that we are almost ¼ of the way through the year already, with tomorrow being the 1^st of April and it reminds me of my mum telling me that as you get older the time seems to fly by so much faster. Well she wasn’t wrong because it only seems like five minutes ago we were celebrating the New Year!

So as we look forward to the prospect of ‘April Showers’ we can also enjoy the lighter evenings now the clocks have been put forward and we are into British Summer Time and hopefully some warm and sunny weather and stitching out on the patio, enjoying the garden.

I did manage to get one last new start and finish in this month and that was the centre square of Log Cabin Christmas, and that was Log Cabin Quilt.

This one took a little longer than the rest to stitch because to all intense and purposes it is full coverage.

So now I’m passed the half way mark and just have four more charts to stitch to finish the whole thing.

There is also one final wip that I put some stitches into, ‘Sing for Joy’ from Cottage Garden Samplings.

I finished filling in the little house, put some more stitches into the big flower above it and you may remember the last time I shared it, I was saying that I had picked out a slub in the fabric. I had to fudge my way around the leaf that the house sits on, making it fatter, because picking the slub out left white threads showing.  Well, I finished off filling it in and although I can still see where the pulled thread was, I don’t think you would notice if you didn’t know what had happened.

Now for a little re-cap of my stitching for the month of March, because it’s always fun to see written down in one place what I actually achieved.

To start with, I managed to get some stitches in every day during the month.

5 new starts

8 finishes

3 Fully Finishes – two of which were old pieces that I framed.

And I worked on 3 other wips.      

Plans for April………..well, I don’t really have any but I fancy having a new start or two, aside from the sal segments, Christmas ornament and squares for Log Cabin Christmas, so I’m going to have a sort through my charts and see what I have kitted and ready to go.

Happy Stitching!

Sue

 

Project Information

 

Chart- Log Cabin Christmas – Part 5- Log Cabin Quilt

Designer – Little House Needleworks

Fabric – 32ct Zweigart Linen – Raw

Threads – Called for Classic Colorworks

 

Chart – Sing For Joy

Designer – Cottage Garden Samplings

Fabric -  36ct Linen – Nicolas Flamel Designs ( Putty)

Threads – Weeks Dye Works

In The Woods Bear – Log Cabin Christmas - Little House Needle Works

 I started ‘Log Cabin Christmas’, back in October 2024

and so far have stitched four of the nine squares that make up the bigger picture.

And here it is with the latest square, which is ‘In The Woods Bear.

 Happy Stitching!

Sue

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Chart- Log Cabin Christmas – Part 4- In The Woods Bear

Designer – Little House Needleworks

Fabric – 32ct Zweigart Linen – Raw

Threads – Called for Classic Colorworks

Log Cabin Fox - Little House Needle Works

 Time for my November round-up.

Sadly, I didn’t get around to stitching my 12 in 24 Christmas ornament in November, so to keep up with the sal, I’m going to try and stitch two this month.  Having said that, I still won’t have all twelve to hang up, because the two Mill Hill ones have already been given to my Goddaughters two girls, so they can hang them on their own trees.

I did manage quite a bit of stitching though, despite a busy month, including a couple of short break away.

To start with, I had three new starts, Log Cabin Fox from Little House Needleworks, the third part of Log Cabin Christmas, was also a finish.

My other new starts were Country Charm by Fiona Baker and Toy Shoppe from Dimensions Gold Collection Petites.

Country Charm is definitely not for those who are not a fan of back stitching because there’s a ton of it this one.

The original was stitched on Aida but I decided to stitch mine on Linen and love th way it’s looking.

As for the Dimensions kit, I’m asking myself why I wanted to stitch another one of these after the fun and games I had with ‘ A Kiss for Snowman’ last year.  

If you’ve ever stitched one of these, you stitch with varying numbers of threads throughout and I had to frog so many times while working on it.

Long story short, nothing had changed with this one either;

The frog has visited several times already!

I’m still loving it though and have yet another one in the wings, waiting to be stitched.

My second finish for the month was ‘Dream of a Winter Garden from Modern Folk Embroidery.

The only other wip  I stitch on in November was 'Santa’s House' from Cottage Garden Samplings, which I made some great progress on.  This is where it was the last time you saw it.

And here it is now.

So all in all I got through quite a bit last month and am looking forward to an equally productive month of December.

 

Happy Stitching!

Sue

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Log Cabin Bunnies

Designer – Little House Needleworks

Fabric – 32ct Belfast Linen – Raw (called for)

Threads – Classic Color Works (Called For)

 

Country Charm – from The World of Cross Stitching Magazine

Designer – Fiona Baker

Fabric – 36ct Linen – Parchment – Nicolas Flamel Designs

Threads – DMC’s

 

Toy Shoppe  

Kit - Dimensions Gold Collection Petites

 

Dream of a Winter Garden

Designer – Jacob de Graaf – Modern Folk Embroidery

Fabric – 36ct Linen – Doubloom – Picture the Plus

Threads – Roxy Floss Co

 

Dream of a Winter Garden – Modern Folk Embroidery

I know ‘it’s a thing’ that we Brits are said to like to talk about the weather and that’s exactly what I’m about to do, so please forgive me.

November so far has been dull  and murky and I’m so fed up with it if I’m honest.  Don’t get me wrong, it’s not been wet and windy as it can sometimes be in November, but we have had low cloud that’s trapped, making it grey and miserable and it's seems like it's been like this for weeks. In fact, apparently some places have had less that 2 hours of sun light breaking through so far this month! 

 I guess I shouldn’t complain though and be thankful that we haven’t had to cope with the horrific flooding that Spain and India has been dealing with and the hurricanes out in the USA.  

For all those doubters out there, Climate Change really is a thing.

My thought have definitely been turning towards preparing for Christmas this week, with a visit to a Garden Centre on the outskirts of Cambridge that’s around 1 and a half hours drive from where I live, with my good friends Susan & Edd.

It’s a trip we make every year, to have a nice lunch, look around all the Christmas decorations and get into the spirit of the season.

I was restrained in my purchases but still managed to spend over £50 on these three light up parcels and some pretty Mauve/Plum coloured foliage, among other bits and pieces.

Talking of the Season, I finished stitching on ‘Dream Of A Winter Garden from Jacob de Graaf of  Modern Folk Embroidery this week.

It was stitched on  36ct Linen – Doubloom – Picture the Plus using the left over Roxy Floss Co  threads from my 2022  Christmas Countdown Box from Evertote, in Canada.

Which reminds me, this year’s box is here and ready to make a start on come December 1^st, if I can hold out that long, lol!

I had two new starts this week too.

The first is ‘Log Cabin Fox’, the third part of Log Cabin Christmas series from Little house Needleworks.

I guess I should get a wriggle on with this because the 9th and final chart dropped through my letter box this morning.

My second new start was Country Charm, a chart that I came across a few years back, in an old copy of The Word Of Cross Stitching.

I have a cousin who really loves Hares, so I thought I would stitch it for her as a gift for her 70^th birthday in January.  I’m going to make it into a straight forward pillow, as opposed to a bolster as the chart shows though.

I’m stitching mine on 36ct Parchment linen from Thomas Flamel Designs, using the called for DMC threads.

And finally, the last thing I was stitched on was my wip, 'Santas House', from Cottage Garden Samplings.

 Well, I think that’s about it for this week, so have a good week, take care and …….

Happy Stitching!

Sue

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Dream of a Winter Garden

Designer – Jacob de Graaf – Modern Folk Embroidery

Fabric – 36ct Linen – Doubloom – Picture the Plus

Threads – Roxy Floss Co

 

Santa’s House

Designer – Vinniey P. S. Tan- Cottage Garden Samplings

Fabric – 36ct Linen – Grey Sand – X Ju Designs

Threads – Cottage Garden Threads & DMC

 

Log Cabin Fox  (Log cabin Christmas)

Designer – Little House Needleworks

Fabric – 32ct Linen – Raw - Zweigart

Threads – Classic Colorworks

 

Country Charm – from The World of Cross Stitching Magazine

Designer – Fiona Baker

Fabric – 36ct Linen – Parchment – Nicolas Flamel Designs

Threads – DMC’s

Log Cabin Bunnies - Little House Needle Works

 It’s been back to some Christmas stitching this week, with the part finish of a larger project and a re-start of something that I started on New Year’s last year.

First up is the finish.

This is where I left Log Cabin Bunnies the last time you saw it.

It’s part 2 of 9 and this is it finished.

Still in the mood for some festive stitching, I decided to pull out Santa’s House from Cottage Garden Samplings, which I hadn’t touched since starting it on New Year’s Eve.

There was a reason I hadn’t put anymore stitches into it and that was because I wasn’t totally happy with the colour of the fabric. Fortunately I hadn't done very much, so I started again on a piece from X JuDesigns.

I also have some fully finishing in the pipeline which I will be able to share with you soon.

I’ve ordered two custom frames from Picture Frames Express for these two Cottage Garden Samplings pieces that have been sitting around  since 2019.

And Butterfly Lace Mandala, my Chatelaine has gone in to

 Frames of London to be professionally framed and should be back in a week or two.

Happy Stitching!

Sue

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Log Cabin Bunnies

Designer – Little House Needleworks

Fabric – 32ct Belfast Linen – Raw (called for)

Threads – Classic Color Works (Called For)

 

Santa’s House

Designer – Cottage Garden Samplings

Fabric – 36ct  Linen – X JuDesigns – Grey Sand

Threads – Classic Colorworks & DMC (Called For)