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BOOKMARK HAND EMBROIDERY & MACHINE EMBROIDERY. I made this for a young neighbour. One side is hand cross stitch, one side is machine embroidery. Thanks for looking. Céline

Cross stitch design As much as we hate to be seen as just regional costumes and wooden shoes, as well as Delft blue,tulips and windmills, we embrace it as soon as tourism is concerned. Even the postal office issued a stamp 2 years ago. So here

Stitching a cross stitch design on aida cloth. I wanted to find out how hard it would be to stitch on aida. The digitising required exact measuring of the size of the stitches and a bit of arithmetic. And when stitching hooping straight and careful

Martine's cross stitch bookmark. (With a few violets from my garden)

Cross stitch mug rug - or not. Last week when sorting out a cupboard I came across a small embroidery I made 70 years ago. The design was printed on the linen, I did not like the gaps between the crosses then and still don't, but my mother insiste

Cross stitch honeysuckle. When Carolyn asked a question about 5D Cross stitch I wanted to illustrate my answer with a few pictures of steps taken, so I made this simple design. I had to use it at least once, or rather trice. And yes, it will be

Guest towel

I've been playing with the 12wt cotton threads I bought at the Sewing For Pleasure show. They give a really nice, hand-stitched look. This is stitched on an even weave fabric which I then appliqued onto denim to make the cushion cover.

Notebook cover As requested I made a small tut on how-to-make-a-bookcover the way I do it. I used the test I did for the cross stitch design, to be found on Yoriko's site.

More bookmarks. I couldn't resist a bookworm!

Campanula. Another addition to my springflowers (and to my notebook covers). It stitches in 7 minutes. I used cotton embroidery thread (DMC and Anchor) from the early 70s when I did a lot of freehand machine embroidery. It has a nice mat shine and

Round cross-stitch doily made in a 200x200mm hoop. Single floral Cross-stitch design by Martine, available from Mygardened.com. The doily outline is a freebie by mpos (Martine) from You Embroidery. Thank you, Martine, your beautiful designs stitched perfe

Cross sitch snowdrops stitched out on a notebook cover (A6 size). Picture 1 is the front, picture 2 the design on the back. I used a couple of pictures I took last year. Today it's snowing again.

Cross-stitch for spring greetings. Flowers around our house are blossoming already, so it's time to create some "spring-y" cards. Quick Sunday-evening project to finish off a nice weekend. This was actually a test-stitch how "fine" the crosses can be