January - Cosy cabin
CROSS STITCH PATTERN READY TO DOWNLOAD, DESIGNED BY Gracewood Stitches

This cross stitch design is part of a collection with a different pattern for each month of the year. This one is for January.

Designer Kathy Bungard talks about her inspiration:

Winter in our part of the world is nothing if not cozy!   A month to rest from the busier times of gardens, harvest and preservation. A time to rest and recover with guilt free time for reading, stitching, dreaming and of course having endless cups of tea.

The piece is entirely worked in cross stitch, in four shades of blue stitched on white background fabric. You will notice that the white patterns are not stitched, they appear in negative with only the color background in cross stitch. This is the Assisi stitch technique. We particularly like the motif of the trees, with very stylized shapes.

Patchwork lovers will recognize the particular layout, with angles nested in each other, in reference to the Log cabin Quilt motif.

The designer has created a series of embroideries based on the Log cabin motif, with in particular, one for each season (see winter below)

A cross stitch pattern by Gracewood Stitches.

>> see all Log cabin patterns by Gracewood Stitches
 

Chart info & Needlework supplies for the pattern:
January - Cosy cabin

Chart size in stitches: 182 x 182 (wide x high)
Needlework fabric: white Aida, Linen or Evenweave
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Stitches: Cross stitch,
Chart: Black & White, Color
Threads: DMC
Number of colors: 4

Themes: winter, cabin in the snow, warm and cosy, cups of tea
 

>> see all Winter patterns (all designers)

>> see all patterns related to Tea and Teatime (all designers)

>> see all patterns using assisi stitch technique (all designers)

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