The World of Cross Stitching - UK (2019-12)

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Reader Panel

Get to know this month’s reader panel, and look out for their favourite projects throughout the issue

Meet our guests

Three words to describe you?

Patient, creative, determined.

What has been your favourite

cross stitch project?

My mum bought me a gorgeous cross

stitch kit featuring two giraffe faces.

It took me a whopping 80 hours

to stitch, but it is stunning. I have it

framed in my lounge.

What do you love the most

about cross stitching?

The best thing about cross stitching

is that it’s ‘my time’. I can switch off

completely and immerse myself in

it, which helps me to relax.

Your cross stitch heaven?

I would love to own a craft shop

where I could run cross stitch classes.

Fave recent WOXS design?

The ‘Picture Perfect’ 3D designs by

Heather Nugent in

issue 281 are brilliant.

I don’t think I’ve ever

seen anything like this

before, and I would

really like to try them.

Hayley

Marks

is a veterinary

nurse from

Dorset, UK

How’d you start stitching?

I tried crochet, knitting and sewing,

and wanted to try something new, so

I picked up a cross stitch kit. That was

three years ago, and now it’s the only

craft hobby that I still regularly do.

What are you stitching now?

At the moment I’m currently working

on one of my own designs, which is

a quote with a number of Bengal

cats, to represent the two Bengal cats

that we rehomed a short time ago!

Recent WOXS

design you love?

The ‘Adorable Fox’

from the September

2019 issue (284).

Autumn is my

favourite season,

and I love autumnal colours.

Fave cross stitch designer?

Emma Congdon at Stitchrovia. Her

designs are always so intricate and

modern, and I love the variety of

fonts she uses. I want to work on her

‘Shoot for the Moon’ design next.

Sarah

Clarke

is a digital

marketing

trainer from

Nottingham, UK

Fave WOXS design?

I love the ‘Bird Quilt’ by Lucie Heaton

in the August 2019 issue (283). I don’t

quilt so I am trying to come up with

another way of finishing it. Perhaps I’ll

turn it into a collage or afghan...

What’s your proudest or most

memorable stitching moment?

Each time I finish a piece. It is great

to think about framing it and where

to hang it, or how the recipient will

feel. I do my own framing so the

satisfaction continues with each step.

What has been your best

compliment for one of your

cross stitch pieces?

My daughter crying from happiness

when she received her gift. You can’t

get much better than that.

What’s been your worst

stitching disaster?

A wolf I finished last year. It

was a small design, but the

colours were all so close –

I got tired of frogging! I was

happy to see that one end.

Pat

Bravard

is a retired

medical secretary

from Central Lake

Michigan, USA

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the panel!

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Receive a stitchy gift

THANKS! This month’s panel

members each get a bundle of thread

goodies from Madeira. This includes

embroidery scissors, a big embroidery

hoop, thread hooks, Mouliné threads

and a Mouliné colour card.

We need you!

To be on the panel, email readerpanel@cross-stitching.

com – tell us your name, where you’re from and include

a good-quality photo of yourself. Every panellist gets a

preview of the magazine and a gift worth at least £30!

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£30!