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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

Sprinkled with a sugary colour palette of pastel pinks, butter yellow and baby blues, this folk art hoop will brighten up your winter days. Let spring in with this illustrative and detailed hoop of sy

YOU WILL NEED ■ Caron Simply Soft Heathers (100% acrylic, 141.7g/228m) 6 balls of Woodland Heather (9503) ■ Caron Simply Soft (100% acrylic, 170.1g/288m) 1 ball of each Autumn Red (9730) Pistachio (00

The bag strap is knitted in Fabric Stitch first, then the stitches for each side of the bag are picked up from the WS edge of the strap, to form an outside ‘seam’. These stitches are then worked in Tw

Notes Wind off a smaller ball of Yarn A before you begin (or locate the other end of the ball). Use a separate end of yarn for each colour section (intarsia method) and cross yarns at colour changes t

TARTAN TREASURES Part of the company’s ‘Wild Scotland’ collection, Vivid Stash* has launched four new designs in their newly certified stash tartan, each one revering the symbols of Scotland. The rele