It’s a fine time to stitch up a turkey themed cross stitch pattern for Thanksgiving or any time you want to be reminded to be thankful.
This gobble til you wobble design from Small Cross Stitch Co is decidedly Thanksgiving Read More ...
Designer Spotlight: So Easy Pattern
So Easy Pattern is an Etsy storefront that has both cross stitch patterns and machine embroidery patterns. There’s plenty of snark but also cute stuff, landscapes, holiday patterns and more. Let’s check it out!
The biggest category in the shop Read More ...
How to Make Your Own Needle Minders
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In my travels around the crafty Internet, I see a lot of tools, some of which seem useful, others not so much.
One cross stitch tool that I thought looked cool but I’d never bothered to buy Read More ...
Cornucopia Cross Stitch Patterns
I was trying to come up with a motif that is more about the harvest time of fall than specific to Thanksgiving, and I had the idea to look for some cornucopia cross stitch patterns. These would be pretty to Read More ...
Designer Spotlight: Wonder Stitch UA
Wonder Stitch UA is more than just a shop that sells cross stitch patterns. They also sell hoops, organizers and accessories for your projects, as well as individual patterns.
The biggest section of patterns in the shop is holiday, which Read More ...
Do a Color Study in Cross Stitch, Sudoku Style
I realize that headline doesn’t really tell you anything about what is happening in this project, but it’s really cool so I hope you’ll bear with me through some explanation.
Whether you want to design cross stitch patterns or just Read More ...
Real Witch Cross Stitch Patterns
Halloween is all about spooky stories and dressing up as characters like witches, but the history of witchcraft has a real lineage that comes down from Salem and even further back that also should be acknowledged. Whether you consider yourself Read More ...
Designer Spotlight: Autumn Andrea
Autumn Andrea sounds like a shop that’s perfectly poised for the season we’re in, and it really is, with lots of patterns for spooky season and the cozy seasons that come after.
But there’s more to it than that, so Read More ...
Get Inspired by Different Ways to Finish Cross Stitch
I think a lot of us our guilty of finishing cross stitch patterns in a similar way over and over. (At least I know I am, when I even manage to finish things!) For me that’s usually displaying bigger projects Read More ...
Cute Black Cat Cross Stitch Patterns
It’s always black cat season in my house because we have a black cat (and a tuxedo cat, so much black hair!). And we’ve covered black cat Halloween themed cross stitch patterns before, but there are so many great black Read More ...