’TIS THE SEASON TO BE STITCHING…
With Christmas getting closer now, we all tend to fall into our favourite stitching habits before the big day. Do you always like to stitch a new stocking or Advent calendar, or perhaps cards and gifts are more your thing? We spoke to four well-known personalities in the cross stitch community about what Christmas means to them and how they like to celebrate it in stitches…
DURENE JONES
Cross stitch designer
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How early in the year are you usually coming up with Christmas designs?
Sometimes it’s as early as January – there have been times in the past when I’ve had the first commission of a new year be a Christmas related one. More often it’s the summer time, so I’ll be sat thinking about snowmen and Santa in a heatwave – it can be very strange, but over the years
