Cross Stitch Gold - UK (2020-03)

New products

A PIECE OF HISTORY

From the 1st April, you can get your crafty hands on this

stunning Beginner's Guide to Blackwork – a reissued book

to commemorate 50 years of Search Press. Lesley Wilkins

discovered blackwork

samplers on a school trip

to London's Victoria and

Albert Museum aged just

ten, and has been hooked

ever since. Her stunning

designs – from individual

motifs to fill patterns

and borders – are sure to

inspire you in turn. This

beautiful book costs £9.99.

Visit http://www.searchpress.

com or call 01892 510850

for details or to buy

A YEAR OF FUN

Creative Poppy has launched a brand new

Birds & Blackwork Flowers Stitch A Long – and

it's a beauty! This SAL is designed by Cross

Stitch Gold favourite, Lesley Teare, and will last

the whole of 2020. You'll have to be patient if

you want to complete the whole design, but

here are the first two parts to get you started

• we love the contrast between the brightly
  coloured birds and the delicate blackwork
  blooms. Pay £13.60 to sign up for the SAL
  and receive 12 parts in total.

For more information visit http://www.

creativepoppypatterns.com

Parisian charm

If you're looking for a spring stitching challenge, this

could be the kit for you – delicate yet intricate lettering,

decorated with fresh flower sprigs and a little blue bird, then finished

as a pretty cushion. There are a whopping 46 shades of thread in this

piece, so it's trickier than it might first look. Luckily, the kit comes with

large-scale black and white charts printed on four A3 sheets, so that

you can really see the detail. The design size is 61x20cm (24x7¾in)

on 25-count Lugana, while the finished cushion size is 80x40cm

(31½x15¾in). You even get some dark grey-blue backing fabric and a

zip included in this Paris kit (PB204), which costs £34.

Visit http://www.artsanddesigns.com for more information and to buy

Do what you love

If you need an

inspirational message to

live by, you can't go wrong

with this one, which is

worth remembering every

day. What do you love

to do? If stitching is the

answer (we do hope so),

then use this gorgeous

book to write up your

stitchy shopping lists, plan

your next projects and get

creative – there's plenty of space for all your brilliant

ideas. As crafters, we really appreciate the elegant

embroidered decoration on the cover, which makes

it ideal as a thoughtful gift for fellow stitchers, too.

The Embroidered Birds A5 Notebook costs £4 from

Hobbycraft stores, or buy online.

Visit http://www.hobbycraft.co.uk to buy or find a store

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