Issue 39: February/March 2006

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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

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