Ladies from literature

HeIlo all and welcome to the third part of our exciting new stitch-a-long. Have any friends come to mind when you’ve been working on it? For this part we’re on the ‘Joy’ panel, celebrating the friends

COLOURFUL CREATURES W e’re big fans of the spiritedly colourful ‘Party Animals’ cross stitch collection and love to see when our readers are stitching them! The fun critters bring a playful twist to y

The seventh book in our library is Mary Poppins, written by PL Travers in 1934. The heroine of the novel is a sensible English nanny, and the story follows the Banks children who live at 17 Cherry Tre

Fancy tripping through the tulips? Well, now you can, with our beautiful field of blooms, complete with windmills in the background. There’s a lot of dense stitching here, so take your time as you enj

Q My nan gave me her big button box (quite the bequest!) when she moved into a care facility recently. There are many lovely buttons and seems a shame not to use them in some way. I thought I could ad

March is a great time for planning gardens – whether you’re sowing veg or flowers. So, we asked our designers to create an aida band bookmark that could be used while garden planning or reading garden