Book Review – Just CrossStitch

Autumn stitching abounds! From framed pieces to pincushions, coasters and more, the 25+ patterns in this issue of Just CrossStitch will have you stitching through the chilly season with your warmest colors. The magazine features patterns for autumn, Thanksgiving and Halloween, so you’ll have projects to last you until Christmastime!

Capture the colors of autumn with the Colorful Leaves Biscornu. Stitch autumn leaves in shades of topaz and red settled delicately among fresh green branches. Use simple stitches—cross stitch and backstitch—to create this elegant design.
Fall feline! The deep, black linen fabric of the Autumn Cat creates a dramatic canvas that’s perfect for the rich autumn colors of terra-cotta, yellow, brown and green. Easy-to-follow finishing instructions will have you completing this feline-shaped project in no time.
Halloween Spooktacular! Stitch 6 spooky ornaments featuring classic black cats, skeletons, ghosts and more. By the end of this issue, you’ll be cackling with joy. Plus, you won’t want to miss our ongoing series features! Pick up Part 2 of the House for a Wife, a Huswif, and continue perfecting your specialty stitches in the Floral Band Sampler, Part 5. All this and more when you download (or subscribe!) today!

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I have a complicated relationship with my embroidery needles. Which is a fancy way of saying I don’t really take care of my needles at all. Even though I know I have embroidery needles to use for cross stitch and sewing, needles that are certainly still in their packages, I can rarely find them when I need them.

So when I saw this post from Crewel Ghoul about how to store your embroidery needles, it hit close to home for me.

It doesn’t really say anything I didn’t already know, but it is good advice that might also serve as a reminder for you to take better care of your needles when you cross stitch or do other hand-sewing projects so that you’ll be able to find your needles again when you need them.

It would help me a lot if I had a dedicated place to keep needles I’m not using, including the needles that are still in their packages from when I bought them. You’d think I would keep them with my embroidery floss but apparently you would be mistaken about that.

Another good idea for me is to have a place to put needles I’ve been using when I am done with them. Because goodness knows I’m not going to put them back in the package. (Which may actually be a good thing because then I know which one I’ve been using and which ones are fresh. Not that I replace my needles regularly, but still.) I own pincushions but I don’t really use them for anything, which is silly.

Check out the post at Crewel Ghoul to see all the options available for storing your embroidery needles properly. I’d love to hear what you do, especially if you have a better system than I do (which, honestly, would be any system at all).

[Photo: Crewel Ghoul]

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