I began thinking about the idea
of a birthday as a new beginning.
With a new start anything is
possible. The mini cog lent itself
as a compass, so all I needed to
add was my watch handsas a
dial as my mystery item.”
elcome to our Februarystitching
challenge. We love seeing what our
designers come up witheach month, and
this time we asked them to create a
moderncard for a man, featuring a mode of
transport of their choice. Their thread choices were
limited, but they were allowed one mystery
ingredient each and each of them had to include a
birthday greeting in their design! Read the challenge
rules on the leftto see exactly what they were given.
We hope this will inspire you to join in too – turnthe
page to see what our challenge will be for April –
we’ve listed everything you need to take part.
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This month we’ve asked three designers to
create a transport-themed birthday card using
only a limited set of stash-busting supplies...
RUTH CAIG...COMPASS CARD
THE CHALLENGE
- One piece of white aida fabric
- Five shades of stranded cotton (shown above)
- One silver cog wheel charm, 15mm (⅝in) diame r
- One mystery ingredient of your own choice
THE RULES
- The designis to be used for a modern
birthday card for a man
- Only the materials abovecan be used
- The designmust be no larger than 56x56 stitches
- No fractional stitches allowed
- Be creative as possible!
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