Winter Cottage Paid Download

A snowman and evergreen garland adorn a picket fence, while children sled across the snow-covered lawn in this wintry scene designed by Sharon Pope. The tiny details within the window are stitched over one thread, while the windowpanes can be worked in cross-stitch or Hardanger.

Design size: 10 x 12" (25.4 x 30.5cm)

Stitch count: 140w x 168h

Model fabric: 28-ct. White Monaco Cloth by Charles Craft (stitched over two threads; petit point stitched over one thread); two pieces of fabric are needed if working the optional Hardanger portion

Materials needed to complete: cross-stitch fabric, DMC cotton embroidery floss, Caron Wildflowers thread, Kreinik blending filament, and #12 perle cotton (optional; for Hardanger portion)

This is a downloadable pattern, first published in the November 2003 issue of Stitcher’s World magazine. Supplies used to stitch this pattern were available at the time of publication. However, you may need to find substitutes if supplies are no longer available.