Heaven and Earth facebook challenge 2

The heaven and earth facebook group is doing a series of challenges.  The current one is to do a whole page by cross country stitching.  What that is means you take one color and you stitch that color every where it is on that page.  I do this often, sometimes for a section, sometimes for a page, sometimes and entire pattern..... it just depends on the pattern I'm work on.  So I'll show my progress on Cupcake: 

 

Stitch Maynia .... Year of Starts Update

Stitched the rest of one of the year of starts and my new start for this month I also completed. 

This came from Just Cross Stitch magazine April 2014 issue.  I used Dmc floss for the materials and a piece of material from my stash.  I am pulling this year from stash and a lot of it is lots off of ebay, some I know the brand of material and some just the thread count.

 

Here's my second finish on the year of starts..... this is from Just Cross Stitch magazine issue May/June 2004.  The original said 1773 at the top and  said beverage of the Colonists but I'm making this for a gift and put in the couples year they were married and their family name to tie into their home better.  I did modify the pattern in two additional places on the right hand side near the Olde the pattern did not call for the small berry leaf but this is a mirror image pattern and I felt it needed it.  Also on the side of the sign again one side had the stitch out to the side but the other didn't so I put it in to match up.  This is a really fast stitch and can easily be completed in a few evenings worth of work.