As a person who is mostly in the knitting world, it comes up fairly often that people will have questions about traveling with knitting and whether knitting needles and other supplies are allowed on airplanes. (The answer is generally Read More ...
Temperature Cross Stitch Patterns
As the turn of a new year happens it seems like lots of people are thinking about different ways to document the year to come. One crafty project that has become a popular way to chart a year is temperature Read More ...
Designer Spotlight: Nathnolu
Nathnolu is an Etsy shop based in Cyprus that features a smallish but fun collection of what it calls modern cross stitch patterns. There’s a colorful, mystical side to these designs that is a lot of fun, so let’s take Read More ...
More Ideas for Cross Stitch Gifts
The other day I shared a post about personalized cross stitch gifts to make for people, and now I’ve got another one full of more ideas that you can personalize or not for the people on your list.
The post Read More ...
Winter Animal Cross Stitch Patterns
If you’re in the part of the world where it’s winter right now, it’s winter for the animals, too, so let’s stitch up some cute winter animal cross stitch patterns.
Some of these projects are more literal than others, but Read More ...
Designer Spotlight: Diana Watters Handmade
Diana Watters Handmade has lovely, vibrant and playful cross stitch patterns filled with color, but it’s also a great shop if you’re looking to be a crafty enabler in a young person’s life.
We’ll get to that in a minute, Read More ...
25 Days of Christmas Cross Stitch Freebies
There are a lot of great old cross stitch patterns on the Internet, and a lot of good free content if you’re willing to dig around for it.
I’ve had this link to a freebie page from Aurifil (which is Read More ...
Fun Ideas for Personalized Cross Stitch Gifts
It’s gift giving season, and it can be fun to make gifts for others, whether cross stitched or otherwise. I have a huge cross stitch project I’ve been “working” on for my daughter that is definitely not going to be Read More ...
Stitch a Sweet Santa with this Cross Stitch Pattern
I’m going to start this one by admitting I have no idea why this pattern is called a tiered tray tidbits cross stitch chart. This designer, Stitching Housewives, has a whole section on their storefront with more than 100 designs Read More ...
Designer Spotlight: Pixell Patterns
If you like colorful cross stitch patterns, pop culture references and a bit of (sometimes adult themed) snark, Pixell Patterns might just be the storefront for you.
This Etsy shop based in Portland is full of patterns inspired by pop Read More ...