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Here’s a photo of my latest completed cross stitch project. We have great fun attending a ‘Piratemania’ geocaching camping event each summer, walking footpaths whilst dressed as pirates and searching for ‘treasure’! As soon as I saw Jenny Barton’s super pirate ‘Treasure Map’ design in WOXS issue 278 (March 2019) I ordered the materials right away. It was a very enjoyable project with the vintage cream aida to work on and many individual motifs in the picture, which gave great satisfaction as each was completed. Mounting the finished piece on canvas would not have been much use for camping, so I decided to sew a cushion and had the good luck to find two off cuts of a palm tree motif fabric in my local needlecraft shop. This is the first time I’ve sewn a zip into a project and it worked a treat. I just love the finished result and look forward to more comfort at this summer’s camp. Thank you for your great magazine.

Rachel Hunt, Peasmarsh, East