Charts, patterns and everything needlepoint
This Easter egg ornament cross-stitch project from Fave Crafts is darling! It features little bands of different designs in pastel colors and great details like working in little pink seed beads and using cording around the outside of the egg. Read More ...
Heart shapes are a great design element any time of year, but especially around Valentine’s Day. It’s fun to see hearts combined with other classic designs, like this gingham heart cross stitch design from Felt Magnet.
Designed by Karen Creftor, Read More ...
Stitch People has a really cute free cross stitch pattern for Valentine’s Day that you can easily personalize for your favorite couple.
The pattern shows a man and a woman but you could easily change it to two men or Read More ...
I love the little cross stitch freebies from Country Living magazine, and they have a new one each month that are all collected on the same cross stitch freebies page, with the newest ones at the top.
This month’s Read More ...
There are lots of different Valentine’s Day themed cross-stitch patterns out there, but I think this is the first one I have seen that involves a raccoon.
It’s not something I would have thought of, but I have to admit Read More ...
I find a lot of cool cross-stitch patterns on sites made for beaders. The patterns use squares, same as cross-stitching, and there are some really fun designs. All you have to do is find the thread you want to use Read More ...
If people in your household tend to wander off with your books, it might be time to stitch up a “Hands off My Book” bookmark.
This funny design was made by Kell Smurthwaite of Kincavel Krosses and measures 105 Read More ...
I love hearts of all sizes, and they’re such a simple shape to stitch and a great way to work with a repeating pattern.
Little Lovelies adds another dimension to the tiny repeating heart idea by making them ombre hearts Read More ...
I love rainbow colored everything and cross-stitched rainbows are just extra super cute and irresistible.
They’re also great projects for kids and others who are learning to cross stitch because all the colors make it interesting but the pattern is Read More ...
Here’s just the thing for your princess-loving readers for back to school. Dreaming Ice on Craftsy has a set of free Disney Princess bookmarks to cross stitch.
In all, there are 10 designs, each showing half of the Read More ...