EMBROIDERY HOOP NOTEHOLDERS

These are so easy to make and useful, too. Make one for each member of the family or hang several over a wall in a craft room or home office.

Choose two coordinating fabrics for each hoop. Iron and overlap the fabrics, folding over the top edge of the lower piece (ironing it flat). Put both parts of the hoop in place and tighten it to secure the fabrics so they are taut. Cut away the excess from the reverse and stick down (with strong tape) or sew (loose running stitch pulled tight) the raw edges to make it look neat. You could also add a circle of felt to the back, stitched in place to cover it completely.

Dune brushed cotton in Sakura (pink) and Smoke Blue, both £39.50/m, Romo. Strawberry Thief cotton in Cochineal/ Willow, £89/m; Marigold linen-mix fabric in both Indigo and China Blue, both £68/m; Willow Boughs linen-mix fabric in Woad, £89/m: all Morris & Co. Embroidery hoops, from £6.50 each, Macculloch & Wallis