Lovely new arts and crafts website

Hi all,

I hope you're all keeping safe and well during these troubling times.

I just wanted to let you know about a gorgeous new arts and crafts website brought to you by Immediate Media who are the guys behind the brilliant cross stitch mags (amongst lots of other titles) ;The World of Cross Stitching, Cross Stitch Crazy and Cross Stitch Gold. Click on this link to take a look;  https://www.gathered.how  

Along with other crafts, gathered covers cross stitch, embroidery and papercraft.

Gathered bring the best features of cross-stitching.com, and all of their other separate craft websites into one bigger better, newer site.

The website has competitions, video tutorials any many more exciting features such as free downloadable cross stitching charts for stitchers, which is were I come in as some of my charts will be featured 💗😊

The lovely digital editor Hannah Bellis has also written a great piece featuring a couple of my animal chart designs titled 'The best animal cross stitch charts', thanks Hannah  😁 If you click on the Gathered link under the golden retriever design it will take you straight to my website, here's the link to take a look at it from here: https://www.jbcrossstitch.com/animals-and-birds/357-cute-retriever-cross-stitch-chart-download.html

Hope you all stay safe everyone,

Jenny 

Easter design in the gorgeous World of Cross Stitching magazine

Hi all,

Just wanted to share my new Easter design with you. It's featured in issue 292 of the World of Cross Stitching which is available in stores now. I love how the WOXS team have had the model stitched and the beautiful spring time colours in the photography  😀❤❤

For more info on how to find my and other patterns just click on one of the following links;

Facebook @TheWorldofCrossStitching

Twitter @WOXScrossstitch

Pinterest www.pinterest.co.uk/worldofxs

Instagram @worldofcrossstitching

Website www.gathered.how/needlework/cross-stitch/the-world-of-cross-stitching-issue-292-out-now

Thanks everyone and I hope that wherever you are in the world the weather is nicer than it is in Leicester at the mo  ☔⛈😃😃😃

Jenny

Happy New Year!

Hello all,

just a quick one to wish you all a very happy, healthy, prosperous and creative New Year!
My New Years resolution is to try to create more art. Although I've been creating plenty of art for cross stitch commissions I really need to get back to picking up my pencils and simply 'playing'!

Have a good one everyone

Jenny x

Snow Queen cross stitch

Snow Queen


Hi everyone, here's my latest design to be featured in the gorgeous magazine, cross stitch crazy.

Here's the link to subscribe to the mag 😊 http://www.cross-stitching.com/issue/cross-stitch-crazy-issue-262-sale

Hope you all like it  😃
Have I mentioned recently how much I love my job?!

Jenny

My new sketch

Hi everyone,

Oh dear, it would appear that I haven't posted anything on here since Jan! To say that my blog gets neglected would be a bit of an understatement so thanks so much to everyone for not getting bored of waiting and buggering off!
Anyway, I've been very busy working on commissions which is great but, clearly, not so good for dedicating time to my blog 😆
Here's a sketch I did recently...........

I will make sure that it's not as long till my next blog post. I've been suffering from a case of artists block lately (is that even a thing?!) so need inspiration for my next drawing project. I think that a inspirational museum or gallery trip will be on the agenda very soon!!
Watch this space.........  🎨



Jenny

PS; More of my artwork can be seen on my pinterest page;  https://www.pinterest.co.uk/jbcrosstitch/my-artwork/

Happy New Year!

Hi everyone. I hope that you all had a wonderful Christmas.

I'm officially back at work today although, given the nature of being a freelance designer and loving my job, I've been dabbling throughout most of the festive hols! I even treated myself to a lino cutting kit. I used to love to lino printing as a kid so I've been having fun revisiting my childhood! I've only done a couple of prints so far as practise so not confident enough to post them on here yet!! In the meantime, here's one of my sketches that I drew during the holidays.

I hope that you all have a happy, healthy 2019.

Jenny

New floral chart

Hi all,

I hope that you're all ready for Christmas. Or, are you like me and hardly done any prep so far?! 😆
It's so cold here in Leicester, so, as a homage to summer I have downloaded a new floral pattern chart onto my website! This design only uses full cross and backstitch so would be ideal to stitch as a quick project. I think that it would be lovely to stitch for the front cover of a note book but could be stitched for pretty much anything that needs a splash of colour adding to it! Click here for further details.

Hope you all like it. I don't know if I'll be back on here before Christmas but just in case I'm not, have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!


Jenny