Craft Focus - August/September 2020 (Issue 80)

41 CHRISTMAS PART ONE SEARCH PRESS Cross Stitch Christmas 20 beautiful designs for the festive season by Hélène Le Berre is split into chapters on Advent Foliage, Christmas Animals, Festive Foliage and Amazing Alphabets, there’s a lovely range of designs to fit every Christmas situation. You can make beautiful cutlery pockets with fox, bunny or baby deer motifs, a reindeer photo album cover, a pine cone confectionery sachet, personalised gift labels and many more elegant embroidered Christmas items. The charts are beautifully presented, along with a comprehensive techniques section at the back of the book. The book is suitable for beginners to more advanced stitchers. sales@searchpress.com www.searchpress.com CRAFTER’S COMPANION Make your festive cards and gifts stand out from the crowd with the new fabulous Nativity-themed Nature’s Garden Collection. With everything you need to create gorgeous makes from a fabulously foiled 12in x 12in paper pad to dies, stencils and more. Crafter’s has also released cute Christmas characters from Annabel Spenceley with these fabulous new Christmas-inspired stamps which have an RRP of £4.99. +44 (0)1388 663 251 https://www.crafterscompaniontrade.co.uk PAVILION BOOKS A Partridge in a Pear Tree Crochet the 12 birds of Christmas by Kerry Lord is a unique collection of crochet patterns for the 12 birds of Christmas. Taking inspiration from the famous Christmas carol, Kerry Lord, author of the Edward’s Menagerie series and founder of TOFT yarns, has created this crochet collection. Including John the Spotted Woodpecker for 12 Drummers Drumming, Lydia the Greylag Goose for six Geese a-laying and, of course, Felix the Partridge in a pear tree, this is Christmas fun at its most creative. sales@pavilionbooks.com www.pavilionbooks.com DOODLECRAFT DESIGN Featured is DoodleCraft Design’s take on an advent calendar − the advent clock. Reusable every year and great for the health-conscious families as you decide what treat (if any) you give the child. It would also make a lovely heirloom to pass down to future children. The full kit comes with the hand and fixing and you can count the days up or down, whichever is preferable. The company has two designs; one with a Christmas bear and the other with an angel. There will be new designs for Christmas and other celebratory events soon. +44 (0)1333 429 597 www.doodlecraftdesign.co.uk