Charts, patterns and everything needlepoint
Normally we think of cross stitching as happening on gridded fabric, but you can cross stitch anything that has holes, as we have seen from stitched peg boards and chain-link fences and other amazing large-scale projects.
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The Drawn Thread has a nice little collection of free charts you’ll want to check out, particularly for this time of year.
There’s a Santa and a Christmas-themed project or two and several having to do with snow.
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I promised you a week of Christmas tree cross stitch patterns, and here is one more.
I love the classic look of this Christmas tree from Talons Aiguilles. The pattern is in French but you don’t really need it. Read More ...
Now, you probably don’t want to commit to stitching every. single. holiday. card you send, but for maybe a couple of really nice people, this stitched Christmas tree card would be a great thing to make.
I love the little Read More ...
It feels like it should be Christmas tree week, because everyone I know is trimming their tree and getting out their decorations (if they didn’t already do it before Thanksgiving!).
If you’d like to make some stitched trees, this week Read More ...
The other day I admitted to not having watched “Buffy, the Vampire Slayer” in the context of a Thanksgiving cross-stitch pattern, but I definitely grew up watching Home Alone (and judging those parents for being so terrible they forgot their Read More ...
The other day I shared a cross-stitch pattern that talked about pie, so it feels right to also share this one, from Sewingseed, which really breaks down what the Thanksgiving holiday is about for so many people.
I still Read More ...
Somehow I have managed to never watch “Buffy, the Vampire Slayer,” but I know that’s where this quote comes from.
It’s a darn cute pattern even if you don’t want to include the words, you could just stitch the turkey. Read More ...
Subversive Cross Stitch has a lot of great holiday-themed designs, but I think this one is new this year and it’s pretty amazing.
Because googly eyes.
I mean, come on.
The pattern features a reindeer with googly eyes (OK, Read More ...
Country Living magazine always has the cutest little free cross-stitch charts (you can see the whole bunch of them here) but I haven’t shared them for a while so I wanted to check on the newer patterns and I Read More ...