Issue 41: June/July 2006

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Shopping Around
Some of the best new products and ideas
Your Letters
- share your news and views
What's On
Dates for your diary
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 41

Projects and Techniques

Full instructions for all these projects can be found in Stitch 41

How Does Your Garden Grow?
Kathryn Slaughter
Stitch the flowers that take your fancy!

A Rose by Any Other Name
Kathleen Laurel Sage
Lacy cutwork bag makes a real style statement

Under the Sea...
Gary Clarke's seahorse - a whimsical creature

Another Fine Mesh
Janice Hay
Manipulate Wireform into exciting shapes

The Taste of Summer
Annette Bolton
Scissors case with an Elizabethan strawberry motif

Luminous Lupins
Designed and worked by Sarah Lomax and Sue Hinde of Golden Hinde
Stitch traditional goldwork in coloured metal threads

Sweet Lavender
Lorna Bateman
Make a delicate pincushion with dainty buds and bees

Maasai Jewels
Magie Relph
A dazzling panel inspired by African necklaces

Fantasy Flowers
Kit Strathairn explores the creativity of Fibertex

Just in Case...
Jane Davis
Create a beaded needlepoint glasses case

Features

articles on historical and contemporary textiles and embroidery

Mary Lucas's Sampler
Lynn Szygenda
Discover the Embroiderers' Guild Museum Collection

Gala Event
Join us in celebrating the Embroiderers' Guild Centenary

Pfaff Art Embroidery Challenge
Machine-stitched work from around the world

Variety Bag Competition

From Sketch to Stitch
Janet Edmonds explores the shapes, colours and surfaces of shells

The Levens Hall Quilt
Jenny Lewis
One of England's earliest patchworks