Issue 39: February/March 2006

cover of issue 39

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What's On: Dates for your diary
Your Letters: - share your news and views
Shopping Around: Some of the best new products and ideas
Helping Hand: The place to buy, swap and sell or to seek advice
Book Reviews: Top titles for creative stitchers - see books reviewed in STITCH 39

Projects and Techniques

Full instructions for all these projects can be found in Stitch 39


Button up with Beads by Liz Maitland Add a bit of bling with beautiful beaded buttons	A Distant Glen by Patricia Archibald A miniature landscape embellished with stitches	Towers of Flowers by Helen Cowan They'll brighten up your home	Cool as Ice by Lynda Bodkin, Loopylou Designs Add a frosty shimmer to a delicate snowflake


Still Waters by Susan Briscoe A wonderful koi carp worked in sashiko stitch	Foiled Again! by Janice Hay Transfer foils add glitz to your embroidery	Have a Heart design by Coats Crafts UK Make a pretty tulip pillow	Just One Stitch Julia Caprara explores arrowhead stitch

tassels

Tempting Tassels
by Eileen Comerford
Add colour, texture and a touch of luxury

Features

articles on historical and contemporary textiles and embroidery


Common Threads Diana Ching A project weaving communities together	The Red House Lynn Szygenda Discover the Embroiderers' Guild Museum Collection	Poetry in Stitches Textile art and poetry combine to offer 'food for the soul' work by Sue Dove	100 Years of the Embroiderers' Guild A Centenary Celebration


From Sketch to Stitch Madelaine Nightingale reveals the inspirations and techniques used to create 'Grandma's Girls'	A Passion for Colour Jan Hagen-Bossom relishes the natural beauty of the countryside