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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

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

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

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

Stitch a lavender bag to give your garments a delicate fragrance – and help ward off any pesky moths!