CCN July Cottage redesigned!

When I saw that the July cottage had a red white and blue theme I decided that I would do a bit of changing around on it and use it in my June spot to celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. So - this is actually the July cottage, renamed as June and with a few changes to it.

So - the changes that I made are...

Top Border - I left out all of the middle flowers and added in the backstitched years and the crown. The crown is from one of this year's issues of CrossStitcher - either June or July.

Month - - I have changed from July to June

House - I left out the star and backstitched EIIR instead

Flag - I changed it from the Stars and Stripes to a Union flag - the flag was also from an issue of CrossStitcher

Bottom Border - again, I left out the middle flowers and backstitched the words in instead.

I was quite a bit nervous about making so many changes but I'm thrilled with the way it's turned out. Obviously I'm a bit behind - I'm trying to catch up though :) 

Here's a pic of the all of them together - I love the colours of every cottage, the thread choices are fabulous and the colours of the overdyed threads really are gorgeous.

Going to make a little start on the next one this evening but then it's back to work on the SKOW quilt. I'm really pleased to be excited about stitching the cottages again - it had worn off a little bit - I think mostly in part due to my fretting over making changes to the June one!

Comments

[Karen]

Oh WOW Tree!! The changes you have made are fantastic! The cottage is super cute and fits in perfectly :D

[Carole]

That's worked out brilliantly Tree. I love all of your changes. It looks great :)

[Karla]

I love it. What a great idea!