window CK, movie night and Disney: Let`s Celebrate!

Remember when last Autumn I said I was super busy working on a big batch of cross stitch projects? I`ve been itching to see them in print ever since, and yesterday postie delivered my copy of the book at long last, so I thought I`d share some (= looooaaaads) of pics of this special edition of Hachette Partworks` Disney Cross Stitch, titled Let`s Celebrate! 😊

But first, before I get too engrossed in attaching photos (lol, and before the next issue of WOXS is out), here`s the free gift from issue 318 of The World of Cross Stitching, designed by Fiona Baker:

Also out this week, in issue 19 of XStitch Magazine, entitled Yay!, is this cool movie-themed design by Sweet Annet:

So, as mentioned earlier, here is my copy of the Let`s Celebrate! special edition that arrived yesterday:

It is jam-packed with fab Disney designs to celebrate every occasion from birthdays to the arrival of a new baby to having someone as a friend. I stitched 24 of the 57 designs, some of which have been turned into cards, others into banners, cushions, or pictures framed in hoops, and some were sewn onto a bag or straight onto a Rico hand towel, like this first pic. I`ll add a few photos of the finishes from the book at the end, after the long, loooong list of my own pics. Hope you like them, thanks for visiting and happy stitching! 😊  

recent(ish) publications

I have loads of pics to add so I`ll keep the blabla to a minimum (if I started to detail the events of the past X weeks since my last post, we`d never get to `the good bit`) 😉

I`ve got a couple of cover kits to show you, one`s Durene Jones`s home-sweet-home hoop from WOXS 309 and the other is from issue 310, a sweet little time-for-tea card from the artwork of Lynn Horrabin that`s been converted into a chart by Fiona Baker.

In issue 310 of The World of Cross Stitching, there are also 4 Keep Calm designs by Siobhan Harrison from April Rose.

I got these lovely pastel fabrics to work on - hehe, the pink one was so pastel the design hardly showed up on it 😂, so the stitching hand was reworked on grey by one of my favourite colleagues, all-round good person and fabulous model stitcher Karen Purnell.

There have been a few new issues of the Disney Magazine too that had some of my stitching... well, they all do, technically, because of the step-by-step tutorials of each character of the 4 main samplers, but I mean "extra" pieces like this Mickey bunting, or the baby cube, and this Winnie and friends picture from issue 44 - but I`ll add a step-by-step first so you know what I was on about above 😉

And if you think this 👆 was cuteness overload, wait until you see Pugasaurus from issue 16 of XStitch Magazine! 😁 Designed by Sweet Annet, this pooch in a dino costume is one of my faves from the Cute issue. Hope you like him and all the rest too, thanks for scrolling all the way down here and happy stitching! 😊