CrossStitcher

CrossStitcher is the UK’s best-selling crafts magazine. Each issue is packed with inspirational cross stitch designs and exciting new ideas that will help you make the most of this wonderfully relaxing and rewarding hobby. Please note: This digital version of the magazine does not currently include the covermount items or content you would find on printed newsstand copies.

MAKES of the month • Our October issue features not one, but two, fabulous festive charts! Make our reindeer brooch and then begin our special Christmas sampler SAL…

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EXCLUSIVE CHRISTMAS STITCH-A-LONG! • Use this chart to complete the first section of our Christmas sampler – with mini buttons to make the baubles!

Welcome • Enjoy a stitch-a-long with us…

Out there • Every month we showcase the latest high street trends, new ideas and inspiring personalities for today’s stylish cross stitcher

MY CRAFT ROOM: LAURA STRUTT • We get to see a glimpse of a designer’s own sewing space…

TREND SPOTTING

STITCHING WITH JESS • Jessica Savage continues her quest for more mindful stitching with a mission to accept things just the way they are…

CRAFTY BOOKSHELF • Read on to find out our favourite new books for stitchers this month…

DMC MINI CHRISTMAS KITS • These cute collectable mini Christmas kits from DMC are perfect for cards, festive gifts and tree decorations. With ten delightful designs in the range…

Flower of the month MARIGOLD • As October arrives, we can still brighten our gardens with the gorgeous colours of marigold flowers

HAPPY HAUNTING • From pumpkins to black cats, to spooky bats and witches’ hats – for halloween fun our spooktacular sampler has it all!

Bring Me Sunshine • Bold, bright and beautiful – our sunflower pincushion, with floral border, won’t fail to add some rays of light to your sewing box!

A Tall Tail • Bright eyed and bushy tailed, our sweet squirrel uses a special stitch to make the cutest 3D card

Learn new ways to stitch with autumn leaves • Susan Penny has gathered three projects which each use different techniques to capture the beauty of golden leaves from autumn…

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An interview with… Anne Kelly • Kent-based textile artist Anne Kelly tells us how she creates the “small worlds” of her thought-provoking collages of fabric, paper and print.

TUNED IN • Some of our readers will remember test cards on their TV screens – all ages will love our ‘retro-vision’ cushion!

Sock It To Me! • For happy feet look no further than our toe-tapping sock saying card set! We’ve four fab designs with different greetings to make them smile

needles & notions • Your stitching, top tips, online chat and more!

OVER TO YOU…

CrossStitcher PRIZE TIME! • We’ve got some great cross stitch giveaways up for grabs – make sure you enter today for your chance to win! Giveaways open 10 September – 7 October 2019*

Letter LIBRARY WOODLAND ANIMALS • If you go down to the woods today, you’re sure of an amazing alphabet… Our woodland animals are too adorable to resist!

MONSTER MANSION • Boo! You’ll find more than a few skeletons in the closet in our haunted house. Use our instructions to make it in frightful 3D!

NIGHT & DAY • Brighten a little one’s nursery with our twin hoop mobiles – choose from our daytime pussycat or nighttime owl (or why not stitch both?)

FOREST FRIENDS • Peek-a-boo! Can you spot who’s hiding in the forest leaves? Our trio of hoops make an adorable display for your home

Ready, steady, stitch! • We’ve challenged three designers to use only the materials given to them to create a pair of designs to decorate two bobbin thread organisers. Read on to see how they got...