I love a good upcycling project, and using tin cans as planters or to organize things on a desk is a great way to reuse them and gives you a little canvas to be creative on as well.
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Check out These Adorable Halloween “Cross Stitched” Pumpkins
What better way to show off your love for all things cross stitch than using a cross-stitch style design to decorate your pumpkins at Halloween?
U Create has some adorable painted pumpkins that use cross stitch x’s made with paint Read More ...
Hang on to Summer with these Pretty Purple Violets to Stitch
I know it’s unofficially fall now, but where I live it still feels exactly like summer and I’m not quite ready to enter the land of frost and pumpkin spice everything just yet.
If you want to hold on to Read More ...
Cross Stitched Gift Tags for Christmas or Whenever
I am pretty much in love with these cross-stitched gift tags from Craft and Creativity. They use purchased gift tags with holes in them, but you could punch holes in card stock tags to get a similar look.
The ones Read More ...
Stitch a Sweet Case for Your Sunglasses
I don’t know how it is where you live, but summer is not anywhere near over around here. (And if you’re in the Southern Hemisphere, you’re still looking forward to it coming!) And even if it were, the sun still Read More ...
Cross Stitch Roses Pincushion
I love the idea of this project as much as the execution. The Cross Stitch Roses Pincushion, designed by Helen Philipps for Sew and Sew is really pretty and practical, using cross stitch roses in the corners of a Read More ...
Dog Cross Stitch Charts Patterns
Animal lovers often enjoy crafting things for or related to their animals, and I’m sure there are lots of great cross stitch patterns out there you can buy to make any kind of dog you want.
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Cross Stitch a Tiny Paper Cup
This is sort of an offshoot of doing cross stitch or embroidery on paper, and it’s really adorable.
The post is in Portuguese, but you can tall from the pictures exactly what needs to happen to cross stitch on Read More ...
Awesome Super Mario Brothers Cross Stitch Patterns
There are all sorts of great geeky craft patterns out there, but one of the classics is Super Mario Brothers (did you see the Mario and the Princess knit scarf I made a few years ago?).
I recently stumbled upon Read More ...
Head to DMC for Great Cross-Stitch Basics
If you need a quick overview of cross stitching basics because you’re still learning, need a refresher or want to teach someone else how to cross stitch, there’s a great collection of tutorials and tips at the DMC website.