Fall Into Autumn - Rainbow Gallery

Design: Fall into Autumn Designer: Erica Michaels for Rainbow Gallery (freebie available here) Threads: own choice (mainly Anchor stranded cottons) Fabric: 14 count aida, cream Finishing: Pinkeep

Although I'm currently not active on the Crazy Exchange group, I recently completed a birthday exchange for Marlies there - I had already received you see, my birthday being in February. It was really nice to have another exchange to put together and I found lots of nice autumnal themed items to add to the package - it's amazing what one can get in a fairly small padded envelope! LOL

The card is one I made myself, as is the floss tag. Also added to the package were two small charts, a small kit, some backing fabric, beads, rayon floss, metallic floss, multi coloured floss and a small spring hoop!

Marlies told me she felt very spoiled, so I feel my work is done :o)

Fall Into Autumn

This called out to me to be stitched when I was rummaging through my thread stash for autumny colours, so I sat and stitched it up - it worked up pretty quickly, and I just used some of my Anchor collection to do so.

The button came in a pack from my LNS - although she is mainly doing scrapbooking at the moment, until the wheel of fashion turns. It is so nice having all the basic DMC colours five minutes walk away, because isn't it always the way that the colour you run out of is the one you don't have a duplicate of? LOL
Design Details

Fabric: 14 count aida, cream
Threads: Anchor stranded cotton
Designer: Erica Michaels for Rainbow Gallery
Chart Details: Fall Into Autumn - The Rainbow Gallery (c) 2003
Stitch Count: 55H x 58V
Stitches Used: Cross Stitch, Back Stitch
Threads Used: Anchor 326, 671, 1305, 268, 341, 78, 890, one unknown, . Cross stitch in two strands.
Embellishments: Leaf Button
Modifications Made: Own choice of threads.