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Left to right: Wedding sampler, cube, Bold Blooms and Tudor Queen Mottoes overview

The three main projects I have on the go at the moment are a wedding sampler, a stuffed cube toy and a free magazine kit.

The wedding sampler is for my friends, Kerry and Stu, who are getting married in September this year. I’m Chief Bridesmaid and will be reading at the wedding, so the inner border will be different from the horseshoe border on the chart – I’ll be replacing them with a few lines from the reading instead, just to make it extra personal. I’m quite pleased with my progress on this project and I think it will look lovely when it’s finished.

The stuffed cube toy is for my baby son who is almost eight months old now. Each face of the cube will feature a letter from his name (quite fortunately, their are six letters in his first name – Xander!) and I’ll put a few bells inside with the stuffing.

The freebie kit, called Bold Blooms, is from Cross Stitcher magazine. I’ve only just started this one, so I haven’t done very much of it yet, which is why I’ve popped the picture card next to my work in the photo, so you can see what it will look like when it’s finished.

The forthcoming project (which I’ll be starting after I’ve finished the cube and Bold Blooms kit) is a sampler of four Tudor Queens’ Mottoes, which I’m stitching as a mock-up for the designer through The Corss Stitch Forum, Carla-Jane of Raevyn Designs. I’ll be experimenting with metallic thread for the first time on this project, so I’m quite excited about it!