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Safety Notice: Handmade items made from this pattern may contain small parts or long cords that pose choking or strangulation risks. Not suitable for children under 3 years. Please see the full safety disclaimer at sewmag.co.uk/safety.
Encourage the little ones to give cross stitch a go with a miniature design that can be worked up in to a feature for this handy back to school essential. Using a simple template as a guide, this project shows how easily you can create pretty pictures and motifs on fabrics with just a few different coloured threads.
Cross stitch a motif
Cut a piece of printed Aida 8cm by 12cm and find the centre. Begin working the cross stitch design from this point using three strands of cerise embroidery cotton for the central heart. Work half stitches where necessary to ensure the curves look neat.
Work the two puppies in jade and pink stranded cotton, adding collar and heart patches with yellow and green. Outline the animals with a neat backstitch in the darker shades, adding the features with black cotton.
Frame the design with a border of alternate coloured cross stitches and then fold under the edges of the fabric two holes from this line, mitring the corners and clipping away excess fabric if necessary for a neat right angle.
Make a handy pencil case
Cut the cotton spotted fabric in half and fold under 1cm on one long edge of each piece. With right sides uppermost, pin the fabric to the zip so the fold sits neatly along the line of teeth. Backstitch the fabric into position and over sew the fabric pieces together at either end of the zip.
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