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Here is  my latest cross stitch project. A kit which came with Cross Stitcher magazine, and I found it in a CS. I thought it could be a FlatGift to go to Kirsten with one of my TwoByTwo patches. However, it was just the threads, felt and evenweave fabric - no stitching chart. I thought "This isn't fair - I can't send her half a kit" I managed to track down the pattern online. And concluded it would be nicer to make it up for her as a Christmas gift.
I tweaked the pattern - adding some coloured beads [lilacs for the wisteria, and other beads to the flowers on the shrubs and in the tubs - and a black bead doorknob. I added a button on the top. On one side there are two tubs, on the other a pink bench and a tub - and lots of wisteria, and bits of brickwork.[and signed it AA2025]

It's about 8cm in diameter, and 12cm high. The base and removable roof are felt - I lined the inside with cotton fabric- I didn't want the back of my stitching showing!
"What can I put in this?" I asked Bob. It is a bit too small for chocolates, perhaps some haberdashery notions? He suggested I should select an assortment of my vintage buttons. So that's what I did. The buttons date between 1930 and 2000, and range in size from 8mm to 25mm, and are different colours, and some interesting shapes.
It was an interesting  and enjoyable project to make, and now I have the chart, I may make another one for someone else.

I wonder how many of these little magazine kits get put away and never made up? Now I have realised you can find the charts online, I may look for some more in CS. I wonder if K will keep the buttons in it, or use it for something else...