Santa’s workshop

As you can see, I’ve turned ‘Merry and Bright’ from December 2024’s magazine into a cushion. I’m going to gift it to my in-laws, who live in Cornwall. It was lovely stitching it as it made me think of

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

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

■ Pattern sheet x1 ■ Instruction sheet ■ Body fabric: 60x50cm ■ Front ear fabric: 10x10cm ■ Nose fabric: 6x6cm ■ Quilt fabric: 30x50cm ■ Bed fabric: 35x50cm ■ Pillow fabric: 9x20cm ■ Wadding: 35x50cm

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