Thanks from both of us! The stitched area on the cross stitch is about 5 1/2" x 20". Hours? If I ever counted up the hours I'd never want to start another one! I worked on it quite a bit last spring, not much in the summer and finished up last fall sometime.

Like Suzanne, I've got a bunch of patterns as well as some kits waiting in the wings and am currently working on a non-lighthouse project.

Here's a neat site I found if anyone is interested. You can get a cross stich pattern made for you based on one of your photos. Might be fun to do.
http://crosstitch.com/photo.html

That woodscape was a bear. You had to punch out all the pieces, paint them after mixing upteen colors of paint and then glue them onto the frame (after you had assembled it).