I have several years of magazines that I would be willing to part with. I have several years of Just Cross Stitch and Crazy for Cross Stitch, as well as several other magazines. Let me know if you are interested.

That method works fine if you have a few stitches within an area. I do whole pictures with large areas of one color where the /// and \\\ work much better, start with a waste knot per strand and color on top of the work like you do in needlepoint and either run the floss through the back of the last few stitches, or as I discovered works very well to end a strand, make another waste knot a few rows below or above on top using a large french knot when I know future rows will secure that thread and clip the waste knots as I go along. This helps not flipping your work and hoop back and forth to end threads and seems to make the work go faster with less bulk in the back from running stitches under stitches.

I am looking for the cross stitch patterns for the apple and plum that ran in the "Collector's Series" of the 1993 Better Home and Gardens Cross Stitch and Country Crafts magazine. I have the Botanical Pear pattern ( I have tried to attach a picture but the file is to big, I can email a picture) that I can share via email. If you don't have these patterns but have other botanical patterns I would be happy to have them as well. I have just recently acquired some crosstitch magazines from my grandmother with some Halloween patterns, log cabin patterns, and some baby item patterns (just to name a few) that I can share as well.

I am looking for a pattern for a cross stitch that was featured in a Cross Stitch and Country Crafts March/April 1986 issue. I was going through some of my mother's things and found the "Sleep Baby Sleep" sampler 3/4's of the way completed. I would love to finish it since she didn't have the opportunity to do so. The front cover is a mother holding a baby with a white lamb in front and a English type cottage in the background. If anyone has this pattern, please let me know. Thanks, Linda