Designer Stitches - for pooh bear fanatics! (Other Cross Stitch Designers)

Member Name: aflynn

Product:	Other Cross Stitch Designers
Date:	02/03/01 (453 review reads)
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Advantages: lots of lovely pooh bear designs

Disadvantages: can be pricey

I love cross stitch. I first got into it when I was bought a kit whilst recovering from appendicitis (ouch!). My first thought was that I had had tissue removed not my youth! But 6 weeks is a long time to be resting and so I looked at the kit and before long I was hooked.

Cross stitch is similar to tapestry you build a picture using cross stitches. I have used various kits by various designers over the years but Designer Stitches is by far the best. Their Chief Designer is a lovely lady called Debbie Minton, who designs kits mainly from disney characters. The Designer Stitches range includes:
Winnie the Pooh
Mickey Mouse
Warner Brothers - bugs daffy etc
All our yesteryears
The kits can be quite expensive (some limited editions can be as much as £30 but are generally around the £15 mark)

The kits are very well laid out and are very good for beginners. Each kit contains the fabric (usually AIDA) the thread, a needle, the stitch chart and instructions.
The instructions are very user friendly and they tell you step by step how to begin the cross stitch and use pictures to show you how to do the various stitches.
The threads come in a bundle with a thread separater. The stitch chart tells you how many strands of each colour there is which helps when sorting out the various colours (Tip: always sort out the different colours in daylight as similar colours can look the same under artificial light).
The Stitch charts are big and are easy to read.
Designers Stitches also do other crafts including latch hook rugs - they have some brilliant Winnie the Pooh ones which are easy and quick to do - they are expensive starting from around £30 but well worth the satisfaction when you've finished one. Another good kit is the felt applique christmas stocking available in various disney and warner brother characters and at £15 per kit are brilliant to make. Felt Applique is where you build up a picture using felt to get
a 3D effect. I did two for my children at Christmas and everyone was asking where they could get one!


All in all Designer Stitches are brilliant - very good value for money and they bring me hours are pleasure and satisfaction when the cross stitch is finished. Designer Stitches kits are available from all good 'stitching' shops and QVC.

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