Prim Winter Home- A Prim Christmas Series - Freebie

Hello, dear friends. I have the Christmas music playing.  A little Bing Crosby Christmas has been boosting my Christmas spirit with "Jingle Bells" and "Santa Claus is Comin' To Town" among other festive tunes. 

 Eighty percent of my Christmas is up, and I am still doing a little tweaking here and there. 

 I pulled out my cross stitch ornaments the other night . I am amazed how my collection has grown in 2 short years.

My dream is to one day have a  tree like Carol's of Stitching Dreams. Click here to see her 2019 tree. What can I say but stunning! Can you imagine all of the hard work and hours that Carol has put into this tree?   Well as they say "Rome was not built in a day" so I keep plugging away to one day have my dream tree. 

I have to admit I was feeling a little bummed that the Barnyard Christmas series was winding down though I may sneak in another one in the future -I just can not resist.

 So Sunday I got in the mood to start a new little series. It is not going to be a lot of ornaments but just a few quick  small stitches. I was able to design, stitch, and finish this piece in a couple of hours- all while watching and laughing to  The Golden Girls on TVLand. Lol love that Dorothy.  To be honest the finishing took less that 30 minutes. Woo Hoo! My kind of finishing.

 Well let me introduce you to Prim Winter Home. It is simple but sweet in my eyes at least. I used only 5 floss colors- all of which were DMC . The house is stitched in 221 That is my current favorite color ; next week I  may have a different one. The other floss colors were 898, 895, 310, and B5200 or white. 

This is a small measuring 33 W x 45 H. Of course I stitched mine on  14 count aida which I tea/ coffee/ walnut dyed. I had to dye mine twice to get it a little darker though I think I needed to dye it a 3rd time. 

I finished this little stitch using 3 pieces of cardboard. The stitched piece has 2 layers of batting underneath.  If you are interested, here are the measurements of the finishing boards that I used.   I allowed a little allowance on the top of the Fabric Covered Boards to allow for the bow. 

Stitched Pieced  Board -   2 1/2" x 3 1/ 2"

Fabric Covered Boards ( Front and Back) -  3 1/2" x 5 1/2"  (Cut 2)

I used scrap fabric to finish the ornament and used jute twine from the Dollar Tree as a hanger and as cording around the edges of the stitched piece. The bow was ribbon from the Dollar General for just $2.00 .

Now some of you who have followed me for awhile may have figured out that I am sort of thrifty . So what I have done for my bits of greenery?  I bought a Christmas wreath at the Goodwill, and when I need a bit of greenery for embellishment, I snip a couple of pine boughs from the wreath. It is a lot cheaper for me than to buy little picks. I take a little acrylic paint and add dabs of white to the needles , let it dry and then  the snips of greenery are ready to use for embellishment. Walla ! 

If you are interested in stitching Prim Winter Home , the pdfs are below. As many of you know , I am not a professional designer and am just doing this for fun. I have to work off a number of devices to generate a pattern; therefore I have to put each page in a separate pdf.

For the instruction page,  click here .

For the color chart , click here.

 For the black and white chart, click here.  

I truly hope that you enjoy this little chart. I can not tell you how much that I appreciate you all, visiting and checking out my little charts. Like I have said before the cross stitching community is such an amazing community and has been a blessing. I just want to give a little bit back in hopes that someone might find a little pleasure and comfort as I have. Plus I have always enjoyed a freebie. Lol ; every time a real designer posts a design or a freebie I do get all excited.  I know a lot of you probably understand my elation.  

I hope you have a beautiful day .Sending y'all a big hug and wishing you many blessings.  And as always...

Happy Stitching, ya'll

Melisa

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