Bath I bought a magazine the other day that had loads of gorgeous little Christmas cross stitch patterns to use for gift tags and decorations and even a small advent calendar. If you (or anyone else!) is interested in them without having to spend $15 on a mag I can scan and email them to you.
Thanks BW! The mag is called Cross Stitch Gifts. It didn't have a date on it so I don't know how often it comes out - I just saw it at my newsagent and grabbed it because it has charts for babies, kids, weddings/anniversaries, easter, mothers/fathers day, milestone birthdays and other special days etc. They are mostly just little motifs but there are some larger ones that you would put on scrolls or cake wrap-arounds and there are several alphabets too. Plus they have a full conversion chart at the back for MDC and Anchor colours.
Is it an Australian one? I think I have it - just can't remember where I've put it at the moment! As far as I know it's a one-off thing, which is a shame. It would be so nice to have a decent Australian cross-stitch magazine. *sigh* I live in hope...
yeah I think it is a one off. At the top it has Complete step by step Aussie guide. It's frustrating that they are all UK based mags and they are really hard to find - most of the mags are for quilting or scrapbooking.
Yep, that's the one I've got. I wish I could find it - It would be kind of nice to have a few of us doing the advent calendar at the same time as a kind of stitch-along thing.
I like the UK mags - although I'm hating this new trend of only whole cross stitches but they'll take the sodding back stitch where ever they please! I'd prefer a few quarter stitches and clearly outlined shapes - I find the other way just looks untidy, and I normally work on evenweave fabric instead of aida so fractional stitches don't bother me.
As for the US mags - completely barf-worthy is all I can say!
I guess it's our fault for not keeping up with the trends - everyone's supposed to be scrapbooking now!
ive just started a crazy patchwork item was gonna do beading but thought nope i want it kiddy same too so will be plainer looking in purple green/aqua and pink and gold.
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