Complete a Cross Stitch Piece

“I’ve just finished stitching my first A Year in the Woods cross stitch. Here is The Fox by Cottage Garden Samplings. I stitched mine on 40 ct Newcastle Stormy Night. I purchased the pattern, the fabric and the called for threads at my local needlework shop, Stitchville USA. I have very limited experience with 40 count linen and let me just say, I do love stitching on it. You need only one strand of 6-strand floss, and your stitches look so nice. I do need a magnifying lamp to stitch. I actually look through the magnifier in order to stitch.”

“So after starting with the little duck kit I jumped right in, went big and after a long time completed my first major piece - Yes I now realize clowns are creepy but I liked it at the time, this one now lives in my furnace room. It is kind of simple blocks of color but it still was still a lot of work, the one change I remember making was that I stitched the white of the clouds to make them pop more as I think the pattern just left them unstitched.”