This July, we're celebrating summer adventures, garden inspiration, and a little nostalgic fun with a project that's both beautiful and practical. Our Embroidered Noughts & Crosses Drawstring Bag kit combines colourful embroidery with a classic family game, creating a handmade accessory that's ready to accompany you wherever the season takes you.
Using vibrant threads and simple embroidery techniques, you'll decorate a cotton drawstring bag with a collection of cheerful garden-inspired motifs, including flowers, butterflies, ladybirds, bees, and other summertime treasures. Hidden amongst the decorative details is a fully playable noughts and crosses board, transforming your finished embroidery into something that's not only lovely to look at, but fun to play too.
What You'll Be Exploring
This month's project introduces a range of beginner-friendly embroidery stitches that work together to create a colourful garden scene bursting with personality.
You'll transfer your design onto the bag before gradually bringing each motif to life with bright embroidery threads. From delicate butterfly wings to cheerful flowers and buzzing insects, every stitched detail adds a little more colour and charm to your finished piece.
As you work through the design, you'll build confidence with a range of embroidery techniques while enjoying the calming, mindful rhythm of stitching. The project is wonderfully portable too, making it perfect for taking on holiday, crafting in the garden, or slipping into your bag for creative moments on the go.
Once the embroidery is complete, you'll have a practical drawstring bag featuring a hidden noughts and crosses game board, ready to be enjoyed again and again.
Creative Freedom, Your Way
One of the joys of embroidery is making a project uniquely yours, and this month's kit offers plenty of opportunities for personalisation.
Follow our suggested colour palette or choose your own combinations to create a garden that's as bold, bright, or subtle as you like. Add extra stitched details, experiment with different thread colours, or use stitches from your own embroidery repertoire to make the design truly individual.
You can even customise the placement of the decorative motifs, creating a bag that reflects your own creative style while still keeping the playful game element at its heart.
No two finished bags will be exactly alike, which makes each one a lovely reflection of its maker.
What's in the Box
- White Cotton Drawstring Bag
- Embroidery Hoop
- Sewing Needle
- Bright Embroidery Threads
- Water Erasable Marker Pen
- Plastic Counter Chips
- Design Template
- Step-by-Step Instructions
You'll just need a pair of scissors from home, and you'll be ready to begin your summer stitching adventure.
A Playful Summer Make
This project is all about combining creativity with a sense of fun. The colourful embroidery provides plenty of opportunities to relax and unwind, while the finished bag offers something a little different from a traditional embroidery project.
Whether you're packing it for a day out, taking it on holiday, or using it to store your crafting supplies and everyday essentials, the finished bag is designed to be enjoyed long after the last stitch has been completed.
The included counter pieces tuck neatly inside the bag, so you'll always have a simple game ready for family picnics, travel days, garden afternoons, or cosy evenings at home.
It's a project that celebrates creativity, colour, and making happy summer memories along the way.
Join Us
If you'd love a creative project delivered straight to your door — complete with carefully selected materials, step-by-step instructions, and a few relaxing hours of mindful making — we'd love for you to join us.
Every Craftiosity box is designed to help you slow down, switch off from the everyday, and enjoy the simple pleasure of creating something with your hands. Whether you're an experienced crafter or trying something completely new, our kits are designed to feel approachable, inspiring, and fun from start to finish.
Orders for this kit are open now and will close at midnight on Monday 30th June.
Join today to receive your Embroidered Noughts & Crosses Drawstring Bag kit and enjoy a colourful summer project that's perfect for holidays, day trips, and relaxing afternoons of creativity.
