Jen Funk Weber is giving away a ticket to a webinar entitled “Best Photo Forward: Refining Photos of Fine Embroidery with PhotoShop Elements.” The webinar will cover such topics as:
* what PhotoShop Elements is and why we should use it
* how to convey more accurate colors
* how to stretch and square warped or crooked images
* how to resize images for the Web
* how to frame a piece digitally
and more.
To find out more and to enter to win visit this blog post. You can also find out how to register for the webinar or learn more here. Enter soon – the webinar will be held March 20th and there’s and early bird special for early registrants!
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Christmas Ornament Cross Stitch Patterns
The other day I shared some cross stitch patterns with ornaments on them, so this time around I wanted to share cross stitch patterns that you can use as ornaments. It would be fun to do a whole tree in your craft room with cross stitch ornaments, or just add a few to your tree or give them as gifts.
These little quilt inspired cross stitch patterns from Flamingo Toes look like ornaments and fit in 3-inch hoops, which are perfect for hanging on the tree or using to decorate a gift. I love the pastel colors on these but you can use more traditional Christmas colors if you like.
This cute Christmas tree from Lagodargetoshop uses a single color and fits in a 4-inch hoop, but you could make it smaller if you wanted by trimming the last ornaments and gifts from the sides, or just stitch the tree without any other embellishments. Either way it’s a cute addition to your holiday tree.
Stitched Modern has a super cute collection of retro Christmas ornament cross stitch patterns from designer Gera. This is a printed pattern that will be shipped to you. Each pattern is about 40 by 56 stitches, or 2.9 by 4 inches/7.4 by 10 cm on 14 count fabric. To work the whole set you’ll need 20 colors of floss.
These snowflake ornaments from Our Little Handmade Home are each about 2.5 inches/6.4 cm when stitched on 14 count fabric, and they use a single color of floss. They are pretty in red but you could also do white on a blue or black background, or whatever suits your other Christmas tree decorations!
From the description it sounds like this set of vintage style cross stitch characters is presented as one large chart, but the photo from Sampler Antique Stitch shows each of them stitched up as their own little ornament, so it gets included here. You’ll find Santa and snowmen in different poses in this cute collection.
Oh, I am so excited about this webinar! I love stitching on linen, but the reflection off the linen itself makes the piece look wavy (and awful). I’ve tried every sort of light and angle and nothing has worked to fix this. I also struggle with photographing framed pieces that have glass over them – the whole reflection thing again. I am a point and shoot photographer with a camera that does more than I’m capable of, so I’m hoping this webinar will improve my Photoshop ability and make my work shine without reflection!