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.
they are beautiful, each and every one.
I use to love cross stitch..I just dont get the time anymore. I'll have to take a pic of our ring pillow that I did and almost didnt use on the day cause I cracked it.
BW we should do that - maybe an Easter one seeing as how we're a bit to close to Christmas now. I've never seen US mags but it does seem to be more of a British thing to do. The wedding sampler had a lot of half stitches - all the little flowers and hearts and the items in the top and bottom borders all had them. The word Wedding was full stitches and the backstitching went around each stitch, but it didn't look blocky kwim? It looked quite effective done like that. The backstitching was all in silver metallic thread which is a total PITA to work with though.
Cool. I'll keep me eyes open for a suitable pattern. I thought the advent calendar would be nice as it breaks down into individual sections that we could do one at a time... hadn't even thought of how close to Christmas we are - I'm in denial!
Squidipa, I love working in bold, bright colours like that.
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see now that is true creativeness for me
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