Dollhouse Completed

This is an update to show you all the finished pieces since my last post. Because I was trying to finish in time for the fair, there wasn't much else that I did during my days than stitch for the months of June & July! I usually just stitch at night after the kids have gone to sleep, but these two months I spent every moment possible during the day and night stitching.

My mom and younger brother visited me for a week and wanted to help out. So I let them work on the bricks and windows on the front of the house while I set about stitching together all the rooms. I first put each room together (like a box) and then stitched them all together to get the interior of the house.

Then I stitched together all the exterior pieces so they made a large box-like shape and then I slid the interior rooms inside and stitched all the edges together. It was quite exciting to finally be finishing it all up! The last thing to do was get out the hot glue gun to glue on things like the roof, the chimney, the window boxes, the window frames and door frames. Finally, the little flowers were the last thing glued on and I was officially finished! 

I completed it just 3 days before I entered it into the fair. It won both the sweepstakes prize and the best in show in the needlework department. 

And yes, I'm already working on a new project... a CROSS STITCH project!!! :)