Charts, patterns and everything needlepoint
Pineapples are a fun motif for crafting because they are an interesting texture in real life that’s fun to translate into stitching, and in the islands they are a traditional way to welcome visitors.
Adding a pineapple cross stitch design Read More ...
I love summer for a lot of reasons, but this particular summer has been great because my daughter is old enough to read by herself, which means I’m getting a lot more reading time for books I actually want to Read More ...
There are a lot of cross-stitch patterns online. There are even a lot of free cross-stitch patterns online. Some of them aren’t great, and some of them are clearly copyright violations (because someone took a picture from a book and Read More ...
July is Ice Cream Month, with good reason, and stitching this sweet treat sounds like a nice way to occupy your time when it’s hot outside.
Here are a few free cross-stitch patterns for ice cream to get you started: Read More ...
Once the Fourth of July has passed, it feels like we’re really deep into summer, which is a lovely place to be.
Why not capture that feeling of sunshine and summer bounty in cross stitch?
I’ll admit this is something I never really think about, but do you use different numbers of strands of floss in different projects or different parts of a project? Unless the pattern says otherwise, I default to two strands, but Read More ...
Attention all wizards, witches, and Muggles alike! Grab your wands, dust off your brooms, and prepare to embark on a magical stitching journey with our enchanting collection of Harry Potter cross-stitch patterns. Though we may have missed the 20th Read More ...
I love large-scale cross-stitch projects, because they are such a different way of seeing the craft, which is usually rather dainty.
Über Chic for Cheap has two projects where she added cross stitch to a sweater or shirt: a heart Read More ...
There’s a joke in the knitting world that designers will hear from people who love their patterns but have just one question: “Will it work if I knit it in blue instead of red?”
I don’t know if anyone has Read More ...
Cross stitch this isn’t, but it could be if you want it to be.
I love the idea of taking copies of old photos and embellishing them with embroidery (or cross stitch) like Elise at a Beautiful Mess did.
It’s Read More ...