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Free Cross Stitch Pattern for Craft Gossip from Stitching the Night Away

January 3, 2012 by Connie Barwick


Loretta Oliver of Stitching the Night Away has generously offered a free Cross Stitch pattern exclusively for Craft Gossip Readers. It’s a Celtic knot-inspired design that will be fun to stitch. Download the pdf of the chart at the link below:

Delft Blue Knotwork Free Cross Stitch Pattern for Craft Gossip

A big thanks to Loretta for her generous offer!

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Comments

  1. Mrs B says

    January 3, 2012 at 8:56 pm

    Thank you, I have been looking for some inspiration for a wedding gift for the fall. This will work perfect. I will x-stitch it across a flat bed sheet and the pillow cases, before adding ribbon trim.

  2. Rhiannon Jones says

    January 4, 2012 at 5:58 am

    I love knots except when they are thread knots

  3. Deborah Bryant says

    January 4, 2012 at 10:39 am

    Thank you for sharing this free chart from Loretta. How nice that she made it for Craft Gossip readers!

  4. Loretta says

    January 5, 2012 at 2:23 pm

    Happy stitching everybody! 🙂

  5. jody says

    January 5, 2012 at 2:48 pm

    This will make a great bookmark or wallhanging

  6. Linda Bates says

    January 5, 2012 at 4:16 pm

    Thank you for your wonderful pattern and gererosity

  7. Linda Bates says

    January 5, 2012 at 4:17 pm

    I don’t have my own website yet, and I just started a blog, but I am not very good.

Have you read?

Go Back to Basics with Common Cross Stitch Terms

It’s back to school time where I live, which I always feel like is a great time to learn a new skill or take a deeper dive into something that you might not have learned a lot about before. 

Usually when we are learning new hobbies we only know what we know. We learn the terms that we encounter, the skills that come up in the projects that we want to make. It’s not that we don’t care about other basics or different approaches, we just learn what we need to know to make what we want to make. 

And that’s totally fine, but sometimes it’s a good idea to go back and review the basics or learn the things you might have missed the first time. 

In that spirit I share this post from Caterpillar Cross Stitch all about basic cross stitch terms that every stitcher ought to know. 

Did you know that the little bundle of thread you use for cross stitch is called a skein, for example? Or the difference between grid size and design area in a pattern? Or that working complete stitches one at a time is known as the English method? (I didn’t know that one! Apparently doing half of the stitch across the row and then coming back and finishing it is the Danish method. Who knew?)

There’s also a little bit about getting started with confidence that might be helpful at any skill level. 

So what I’m saying is, even if you feel like you know a lot about cross stitch already, head over to Caterpillar Cross Stitch and check out their list of terms and make sure you know them all. If nothing else you’ll feel a little smarter, either because you already knew them all or you learned something new!

And if you do learn something new, I’d love to hear about it.

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