First gallop and reading pleasures

I just finished two bookmarks and pencil case. A girl who loves horses and reading will get them as a birthday gift on Valentine's Day! I like to stitch bookmarks. They are fast to stitch, you can create a design easily by your self and there's always a material for a one or two bookmark.

The book marks got ideas from an old magazine (Anna Kreuzstitch - E732) which I bought perhaps at 2003. There was no this kind of design for a bookmark but nothing stops you stitch in the way you want and need. With the yellow bookmark I used also small pearls. The pencil case has got its cross stitch idea from Cross Stitcher calendar 2010 which I got as a gift from a friend. All the materials in the book marks and pencil case are loose end threads and left over fabrics from old projets. Only the zipper is new and it cost 1,20€. A good, cheap and reasonable gift idea to a school girl who loves horses and reading.