| If you love to cross stitch, and you love St. Patrick's' | | | | one at the top of the clover and the other two on |
| Day, or you just love the color green, then try this. | | | | each side of it. so that their narrow ends meet in the |
| One heart shaped cookie cutter | | | | center. |
| One Potato cut in half. | | | | You now have a three leaf clover. Now draw the |
| Aida cloth, or your preferred cross stitch fabric | | | | stem and let dry. Cross Stitch your clover in the |
| Lots of green cross stitch threads | | | | green of your choice, and you now have a "lucky |
| Green ink pad or acrylic paint. (make sure the surface | | | | charm" . |
| of the potato is dry) | | | | You can incorporate this into any type of picture, |
| Press the heart shaped cookie cutter into the potato | | | | you could do a collage of them, or you can do a |
| half, and then cut away the rest of the potato, | | | | single one. Hang it in your kitchen for "good luck". |
| leaving yourself a heart shaped stamp. | | | | If you have never done cross stitch, now is a good |
| Dip your potato stamp onto a green stamp pad or a | | | | time to learn. Counted cross stitch is easy to learn, |
| light layer of acrylic paint, and stamp it onto your | | | | and fun, you can get some great videos that show |
| cloth three times forming a clover with the narrow | | | | you hands on. Then start creating your own lucky |
| part of the heart at the center. Start with the first | | | | charm. |