I feel like “Creative Enigma” is a pretty apt name for this Etsy shop, because it offers a selection of things that to me don’t completely make sense being in the same shop. Some designers stick to a theme or Read More ...
Pretty Flowers to Stitch for Spring
It feels like there are no end of cross stitch flower patterns, and they’re a great thing to knit in the spring if you’re waiting for real flowers to bloom, or as a Mother’s Day gift for a special mom Read More ...
Make Tiny Cross Stitch Magnets
I’ve been trying to come up with some different ways to use cross stitch this year, and one of the things I wanted to try was making cross stitch magnets.
I had the idea to use bottle caps as the Read More ...
Designer Spotlight: The Kosher Stitcher
The tagline for the Etsy shop of the Kosher Seller is “I make silly little cross stitch patterns,” and that’s a pretty good way of putting it.
This small shop has a geeky, snarky and Jewish twist, and their little Read More ...
Cross Stitch Patterns for Mother’s Day
There are so many sweet and funny sentiments you can stitch up for Mother’s Day. Here’s one collection of sweet Mother’s Day cross stitch patterns; this post will have a little of the sweet and a little of the snarky, Read More ...
A Look at Common Cross Stitch Mistakes
When you’re new to a craft, you don’t know what you don’t know. It always surprises me the really basic questions that people ask in knitting and crochet Facebook groups that I’m in, things you’d think “everyone” knows like the Read More ...
Designer Spotlight: Amanda G Cross Stitch
Amanda G Cross Stitch is the place to go if you love floral cross stitch patterns and projects with a scrapbooky feel. Almost all of her designs include flowers, and a lot of them are spring flowers, making her projects Read More ...
An Easy Way to Keep Cross Stitch Fabric from Fraying
If you’ve been cross stitching for a while, you might have heard of this hack before, but for our newer stitchers I wanted to mention it since I came across it again recently on the Koekoek blog.
One of the Read More ...
Book Review: Cross Stitch Celebrations: Graduation
Through the years I have shared a lot of cross stitch patterns for a lot of different occasions, but one thing I haven’t shared a lot of is cross stitch patterns related to graduation. Which is weird, because it’s a Read More ...
Stitch Up Tiny Landmarks in Stamp Form
I don’t know if stamps are trending as a craft motif or maybe I’m just ahead of the game, but Pinterest has been serving me a lot of content in all sorts of craft genres having to do with stamps Read More ...