ALL YEAR ROUND PART 1

MAKE of the month

Create a bobbins birthday card – and download and print out your FREE vintage-style bobbins!

CALENDAR SAL

Welcome to our Calendar Stitch-A-Long! Make a date with us to stitch a new month each issue until you have a whole year of designs

Spread the LOVE

It’s jam tomorrow and today too, with our pretty pots of preserves that will create a delicious display!

Paws & Unwind

Lounging around on our best living room chairs, our cosy cats and dogs are what make a house a home! The purrfect cards for a pet-loving friend!

Country LIVING

Our cushion shows that there’s nothing lovelier than an English country cottage and its garden

GARDEN GIRL

How adorable is our little rabbit in her cottage garden? Filled with flowers, this is a bunny tin to add to your collection today!

SMALL FACES

It’s a face-off! Stitch our selection of pint-sized portraits to hang in your home and add a pop of colour

TOO COOL FOR SCHOOL

Older kids will love being gifted this pencil case, with its cheeky saying – stitch it now ready for when they return to the classroom!

Stitch & Stitchability

Fans of Jane Austen won’t need much persuasion to stitch our Georgian belle of the ball, complete with literary quote

FAIRY TALES

It’s story time as we use some Fairy Tale & Nursery Rhyme favourites to create a magical set of alphabet motifs

Simply Jam-tastic!

We’re jamming! Our fruitful trio of designs includes covers for pots of honey and apple and pear preserves – yum!

MINDFULNESS MANDALA

Finish off your Mandala SAL in style – we show how to make up our SAL from the last nine months into a fabulous cushion

CREATE A CLASSIC: Apple Tree

Capture the beauty of early autumn with our magical apple tree, using half stitching, blending and French knots to bring it to life

Ready, Steady, Stitch

We’ve challenged three designers to use only the materials given to them to create a special mason jar lid. Read on to see how they got on…

TAKE A TEA BREAK WITH CrossStitcher

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Preserving the last of summer…

Out there

Every month we showcase the latest high street trends, new ideas and inspiring personalities for today’s stylish cross stitcher

STITCHING WITH JULIAN

Julian Odessa gives words of wisdom on how to flourish when stitching or in life, this time encouraging us to learn the art of saying 'no'!

CRAFTY BOOKSHELF

Read on to find out our favourite new books for stitchers this month...

Needless & Notions

Your stitching, top tips, online chat and more!

NATURE’S SERENITY

After crying ‘never again!’ at the completion of her last book, Theresa Lawson talks about her return to authorship and our stitch ‘oases’

In My Hoop...

All the way from India, subscriber Anuradha Jain has been using cross stitch, and many other needlework techniques, to decorate her home and to relax

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BEGINNERS START HERE…

New to cross stitch? Our handy guide will take you through all the basic techniques and stitches you need to get you started