Original Celtic and Mandala Based Designs

This banner ad goes on top for the month of June because the design on the cover is by Ink Circles! The only place you can get this design currently is by subscribing to the magazine.

• Model Stitching by Kathy Bonham (thank you again for your excellent hand)
• Silk by Carrie's Threads in the shade of Mostly-deadly Nightshade
• Linen is 32 ct Vintage Lentil by Lakeside Linens
• Design size is 235 x 235
• Stitch count is 22504 (which leads to 12@8-yd skeins for 32 ct going 2 strands over 2)

Nine Lives

Each of the red center is "long life" written in Chinese Calligraphy

I've always encouraged a bit of creativity when stitching my charts. Can you believe the Bloomers below is the same chart as the original?

Click the pic for info on this colorway

Zodiac Quaker Squares
by Stickideen von der Wiehenburg.

This is one of 6 new charts. There are four different ways to customize the middle motif. You can stitch one of the two zodiac signs in the chart's title, personalizing initials/dates, or an alternate non-zodiac motif.

Show is the Virgo & Libra Quaker Square.

And check out their new Butterfly and Dragonfly Quakers.

See the new designs released for the online show
now in the Ink Circles online shop.

Leggenda (AAN), Gem (Seba Designs) and Log Cabin var II (Monasterium Designs)

BOOK OF INK CIRCLES: Gallery page. Charts.

On your newsstand now:

Growth Rings by Ink Circles

Find this pattern only in the March/April issue of
Just CrossStitch Magazine

(I don't have copies for sale, nor can I distribute this in any other form - click the JCS mag link to order)

This pattern uses two colors of Vikki Clayton's hand-dyed premium weight silk (6 skeins Exemplar Flannel Dark; 2 skeins Yawning Mountain) on Lakeside Linen 32 ct Bittersweet fabric. It was stitched 1 strand over 2 threads of linen, no partial or specialty stitches.

We've found just a few minor transcription errors in the chart:

photo courtesy of Just CrossStitch Magazine.