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Karen Nelson used her stitching skills to come up with a unique way to commemorate the way life was turned upside down due to the coronavirus…
Samplers are such an important part of our stitching heritage. When the global pandemic hit the UK last March, CrossStitcher reader Karen Nelson just knew a sampler would make the perfect project to focus on while stuck at home during lockdown…
Karen Nelson, who lives in Chipping Norton with her partner Ian, has been cross stitching for over 50 years, “I have been stitching since age 8,” she says. “I learned at primary school. My mum still has the cross stitch coaster that I made all that time ago. I have enjoyed reading and using CrossStitcher since issue 1.”