Christmas at Primrose Cottage

Primrose Cottage is a fairly new designer to me but I love Lindsey Weight’s designs. I purchased three of her new Christmas charts to stitch. They all called for 32ct taupe and used Colour and Cotton floss with some DMC. They usually offer floss bundles and finishing kits to go with the various designs. I will, on occasion buy the kit but prefer to stitch from my stash.

Christmas Magic

Christmas Magic is the larger of the designs and the one I chose to stitch first. The stitch count is 100×100. I had purchased a fat quarter of 16ct Vintage Country Mocha to stitch all three of these designs and I did purchase the floss pack for Christmas Magic which included:

• Colour and Cotton Cherry Cobbler, Peace on Earth, Marsh, Tree Lot, and Tusk
• DMC 783 and 844

The finished size of the stitched piece would be 6 1/4 x 6 1/4 on the 16ct fabric. You could also take parts of this design and stitch them as small individual ornaments or pillows.

I loved how the stitched piece turned out. I decided to use the frame that the model used which was a 9×9 inch white shadowbox frame from Michaels (Item: 10468371) that was on sale for $9.

Once I disassembled the frame, there was a piece of fabric covered foam attached to the backing board of the frame. I tried to remove it in one piece so I could recover it with a pretty green fabric but that was impossible. It broke apart in small pieces. Once I got all the foam removed, I cut a piece of matboard 9×9 and covered it with the fabric and using the hot glue gun, to attach the fabric covered piece to the backing board. I cut a piece of matboard 7×7 inches and laced the stitched piece to it. Using doublesided stitchery tape, I attached the stitched piece to the fabric covered board.

The framed piece is now ready to hang on my Christmas wall.

Christmas Alphabet

Christmas Alphabet was released in 2022 but I just recently purchased it. The stitch count is 80×65. The recommended fabric is 28ct mushroom lugana using DMC floss. I stitched it on a piece of 16ct mystery aida with called for colors.

I made a mistake on the ball on the top right so left the bow off all of them.

I decided to finish this as a small pin pillow. I added a candy cane button to the back. If I stitched it again, I would us 25ct so it would be bit larger.

Cocoa Quilt

Cocoa Quilt has a stitch count of 73 x 73 and uses three of the colors from Christmas Magic. I was not sure I would have enough floss left from Christmas Magic so decided to use the DMC colors instead (816, 3051, and B5200). The fabric is 16ct Vintage Country Mocha.

I decided not to stitch the white in the outside border as I like the lacey look without the white. Eventually it will be finished as a small pin pillow to add to my collection. I decided to finish this one as a small pillow to add to my ever increasing dough bowl collection for next Christmas. The backing fabric is red with tiny white dots. I added to pompom trim to finish it off.

Cocoa Quaker

Cocoa Quaker is the newest one in the Quaker series. The stitch count is 80×80 and uses three of the colors from Christmas Magic. I was not sure I would have enough floss left from Christmas Magic so decided to use the DMC colors instead (816, 844, 3051, 3776, and B5200). The fabric is 16ct Vintage Country Mocha.