Needles & nations

TREE OF THE SEASON My name is Kirstie Halliwell and I have been kept busy with these cross stitch kits. These are a Bothy Threads kit – ‘The Flower Pot’ – and Debbie Harding’s seasonal tree project fr

Just finished this On My Mind project by Emma Congdon from issue 426. I really enjoyed stitching it! I saw the teaser for it in the previous month’s magazine and knew I had the perfect sparkly aida fo

Welcome to the second part of the stitch-a-long, where we’ll be working on our first panel – this panel is all about trust! It’s important to have friends that we can depend on, who we know have got o

My mom made a little gingerbread house out of paper and asked me to decorate it with cross-stitching. I looked through my stash and found ‘Sugar and Spice’, from issue 324 (Nov 2017). I stitched it on

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If you’re used to working with cross stitch kits, you’ll be familiar with the concept of having everything you need ready to start stitching straight away. But when you’re following a counted chart, l