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Primary school teachers looking for a fun maths project for the Christmas term will find it at the String Art Fun website. The string art projects are suitable for Key Stage 2 Maths (8 – 11 years old). They include numbered patterns and maths questions sheets.

Designs can be created with pencils and ruler or drawing pins (thumb tacks) and string / wool.

There is a free maths project featuring a Christmas pudding with holly.

There are also some maths projects to buy featuring a bauble, bells, candles, a crown, a star and a fir tree. The projects are available individually and in a value pack of six designs.

This week’s card was made by Jenny and is called Iris folding boot.

Jenny said: “This is from a Circle of Crafters iris folding pattern. I used printed handmade paper and metallic paper. It is finished off with peel offs and three brads.”

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This week’s card is called Butterflies and was made by Kate.

Kate said: “This is stitched in gold using the Stitching Cards freebie. It is decorated with copper sequins and beads, background paper from Sugar and Spice. It is finished with peel offs.”

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This week’s card is called Wise owl and was made by Eileen.

Eileen said: “This is a Tim Holtz embossing folder tree and a Scrapping Cottage die.”

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This week’s card is called D for Doreen and was made by Katharine.

Katharine said: “One of my special embroidered initials – possibly 15-20 hours stitching! Silk ribbon roses and colonial knots in many different mainly variegated threads.”

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Six Christmas patterns have been added to the Pinbroidery stitching card collection.

The greetings are intended for relatives:

‘Baby’s first Christmas’ alternative greeting for Birthday.

‘For a wonderful Daughter at Christmas’ alternative greetings for Sister and Niece.

‘Happy Christmas Mum and Dad’ alternative greeting for Mom and Dad.

‘Merry Christmas Nanny’ alternative greeting for Grandma.

‘For a wonderful Son at Christmas’ alternative greetings for Dad and Husband.

‘For my Wife at Christmas’ alternative greetings for Mum and Mom.

The patterns are available individually and in a value pack of all six designs.

They are available as square or rectangular designs.

Square
The square pattern size is 144 x 144 mm (5.65 x 5.65 inches).

Value pack: www.pinbroidery.net/product.php/114/

Individual patterns: www.pinbroidery.net/section.php/8/

Rectangle
The rectangle pattern size is 152 x 104 mm (6 x 4½ inches).

Value pack: www.pinbroidery.net/product.php/121/

Individual patterns: www.pinbroidery.net/section.php/17/

A Sefer Torah pattern has been added to the Stitching Cards collection.

The Sefer Torah scroll contains the five books of Moses hand written on parchment. It is the holiest of all books of Jewish Tanach. It would make a beautiful card for Bar Mitzvah.

The pattern size is 152 mm x 104 mm (6 x 4½ inches).

www.stitchingcards.com/product.php/469/sefer-torah

This week’s card is called Baby girl and was made by kiwiali ( Alison). It was posted in the ‘Lacé or Lace’ challenge.

kiwiali ( Alison) said: “I stitched stork in gold metallic thread. I used Nesties to cut shape and matting then beaded a semi oval with pink beads. Lace is attached to either side of the card. It is mounted onto lightly patterned paper then on to pink card. The sentiment is computer generated.”

The stork is from the Form-A-Lines Stork with baby stitching pattern.

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This week’s card is called Hearts and was made by Must love cats.

Must love cats said: “A friend received a card similar to this for her recent wedding. It was made by a quilting enthusiast. Of course I couldn’t let a good idea like this slip by so here is my version. I used scraps of cotton material for the hearts and a Koki fine liner pen to do the mock “stitching”. I am very happy with the result.”

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This week’s card is called DJ Revisited and was made by SheilaMary3.

SheilaMary3 said: “I have made 5 different ones this week!! If you go to the Gallery “Way Back” archive, you can see that we had a DJ competition in 2002! The template was thanks to Pamela, and it can still be downloaded. I fiddled about with mine and made it to fit a C5 envelope. I also cut the fronts separately so that the card opens conventionally. They are surprisingly easy to make once you have got the knack. I was Sheila Thomas then and my competition entry was the “Elvis” version.”

Here is a link to the dinner jacket template. It is a pdf file that opens with Adobe Reader.

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