New Design Your own Pooh and Friends (Other Cross Stitch Designers)

Member Name: DaisyDuck

Product:	Other Cross Stitch Designers
Date:	25/04/01 (208 review reads)
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Advantages: Make your Own Designs

Disadvantages: None

I am an avid cross stitcher I started on kits a couple of years ago and now design some of my own using books and a computer programme.

But when I started the first kit I bought was a Designer Stitches Whinnie the Pooh bib set to stitch for my nephews. I still buy the odd Pooh Bear kit as I find them a joy to stitch, the colours are bright and the instructions well set out.

So I was really excited when Designer Stitches bought out two new books with Pooh and Friends designs that you can copy or use to make your own design. Along with the books are packs of thread containing all the colours for the characters.

The first book contains alphabets made up of all the main characters, Pooh,Tigger,piglet and Eyeore. There are designs to make these into cushions, pictures towel bands etc. The nice thing is that once confident with copying these designs you can use the components to make your own designs.

The second is a book of christmas designs again based on the Pooh bear characters and contains ideas for decorations,a cake band stockings and so on.

One important thing is that you can now buy the threads in the correct colours as a pack or individually. If you have stitched a Pooh Bear design before you will know that the gold colour for Pooh is exclusive to Designer Stitches so until now it was not possible to stitch your own ideas in the authentic colour.

I purchased my books as packs including the thread from QVC and Debbie Minton has actually signed them. They arrived this morning and I feel really inspired and can't wait to get to the craft shop to get some fabric and make a start.

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