I turned a set of card designs in Cross Stitch Collection (February 2009, I think) into a bell pull. I'm quite pleased with the result. I loved the flowers as soon as I saw them, and I'm still delighted with them after stitching away for weeks. The stitching probably took about a month. Then it has taken a few more weeks to get the hardware so I could finish the bell pull.
Sorry, the name of the designer isn't on the page I have. I tear out the magazine pages I want to keep and laminate the patterns, but I'm not very careful about keeping information that isn't needed to stitch the designs.
