Hi, my name is Becky. I have been designing cross stitch patterns for magazines and books for 14 years...I have no idea where all that time went! I live in Bristol with my husband, four small children and an elderly (somewhat incontinent) cat. I’m still trying to figure out exactly how to balance having a career with having kids and I’m hoping that selling my patterns directly to you, the lovely people who will stitch them will be part of that juggling act. So when you buy one of my patterns you can assure yourself that as well as getting something pretty to stitch you are making a somewhat bedraggled designer/mother/human very happy.
*My technical experience*
Making clear, easy to understand patterns is really important to me. When I started out as a cross stitch designer I was already working across a range of cross stitch magazines as a Charting Editor. For three and a half years it was my job to produce high quality patterns and technical information for these magazines. Today I take great pride in producing clear patterns for my own customers.
The magazines I worked for as a Charting Editor included:
- The World of Cross Stitching
- Cross Stitch Crazy
- Cross Stitch Gold
- Cross Stitch Card Shop
*My design experience*
For 14 years I have also been designing cross stitch patterns for the following magazines/books/catalogs:
- The World of Cross Stitching
- Cross Stitch Crazy
- CrossStitcher
- XStitch magazine
- Just Cross Stitch
- A Cross Stitch Christmas
- Herrschners Needlework Catalog
- Lakeside Needlecraft Summer and Winter cross stitch book