This issue is filled with wonderful Spring designs utilizing designs that promote the use of numerous embroidery stitches along with a great article to help you out called Specialty Stitches 101. Gather Hearts is a wonderful Spring bouquet of floral hearts that uses the DMC memory thread. Of course this threads must be couched so there is diagrams for that. A wonderful Spring colour blackwork design from Elizabeth Almond from Blackwork Journeys is a real pleaser using the Algerian Star and Kloster Blocks. Kloster Blocks are typcially found in hardanger but Elizabeth uses it in a no cut fashion as an accent stitch. If you like the look of this beautiful black work design see more of her work on our website. There is a wonderful birth sampler and a floral sampler that uses 14 different embroidery stitches all with great diagrams to guide you along and many more designs to enjoy.