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What inspires you to stitch? What are your favourite designs ever? We’d like to hear anything and everything about you and your stitching, so write to us today...

Give it some heart

I THOUGHT l’d send you this Picture of the sachets I madę with your free gift from issue 232. At f irst I found it quite hard stitching on to gingham but after a while my eyes got used to it and I found it quite therapeutic. I even ended up buying another length of ribbon so that I could hang them down the back of our door. My mum said they look like they’ve come from a shop - obviously I had to correct her and say ‘I madę them!’ Lisa Ackerill, Northampton

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Above Katie stitchedourset ofNoel sachets all by hand

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JANUARY 2011

Festiue sachets

Fd nevcr madę a padded heart or sachct beforc but I’ve seen so many in the shops lately that it really inspired me to make sonie from your Christmas feature in issue 232 (above). I don’t have a sewing machinę so I just did them all by hand, which was actually really enjoyable. I even bought ribbons and little red buttons to embellish them with. Katie Thomas, Barnsley

Cosy doorstop

Im a subscriber and have been stitching for a number of years but I’ve never madę anything 3D - umil now! The chunky cottage doorstop you featured in issue 231 (bclow) looked so cosy and

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Barbara tried her hand at3D stitching

IWANTED to share with you the Advent calendar I madę for a friend's daughter based on the design featured in issue 230. Rather than making pockets, I madę little bags instead so that each could hołd a big chocolate or sweet - a vital requirement for your average six-year-old! I thought they looked like Christmas tree ornaments, so I created a background in the shape of a tree to hang them on. I think it looks fab! Ruth Statter, Banbury

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