Santa's steps

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

One thing about this design is customisation, so feel free to swap thread shades to use up those in your stash or to match your home’s palette. I hope you all have ‘sew’ much fun making this! www.jbcr

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

Our snowdrops garden scene, where delicate white blooms emerge from the frosty earth, makes for a truly peaceful landscape. Perfect for anyone enchanted by the quiet beauty of spring’s first flowers,

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