Celebrate your love of stitching with these delicate designs by Susan Bates 44 quick-and-easy motifs Susan Bates’ design inspiration Stitches for every skill level Helpful tips and advice Unique gift

Step 1 NOTE you have a choice of two designs to work on your tissue holder – cats or dogs. Both designs have two identical charts, but one needs to be turned upside down to get the dogs or cats runnin

Stitch your own fluffy friend

Step 1 STITCH the front of the cover – find the centre of one piece of Brittney and start stitching here. Use two strands of stranded cotton for the cross stitch and one for the backstitch and French

1 Cut five (5) 2½in squares from fabric A scraps for A1. 2 Cut six (6) 4½in x 2½in rectangles from fabric A scraps for A2. 3 Cut one (1) 3½in x 2½in rectangle from fabric A scraps for A3. 4 Cut two (2

Whenever we share a design for a mint tin in CrossStitcher, it’s always popular! So, we asked our designers to create a mint tin design that depicted a mini room of their choice. They had to come up w