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Quick Tip: How to Keep Cross Stitch Fabric from Fraying

May 15, 2025 by Sarah White Leave a Comment

One of the most common problems that cross stitchers at all skill levels have is that the cross stitch fabric can start fraying while you stitch.

Beginner cross stitchers might wonder why this happens and if there is something they Read More ...

How to Make Scissor Fobs

April 22, 2025 by Sarah White

One of the fun things about crafting is that there are a lot of accessories, and sometimes you can craft those accessories or craft things related to those accessories.

One good example of that is scissor fobs. This is definitely Read More ...

Make Tiny Cross Stitch Magnets

April 14, 2025 by Sarah White

I’ve been trying to come up with some different ways to use cross stitch this year, and one of the things I wanted to try was making cross stitch magnets.

I had the idea to use bottle caps as the Read More ...

A Look at Common Cross Stitch Mistakes

April 8, 2025 by Sarah White

When you’re new to a craft, you don’t know what you don’t know. It always surprises me the really basic questions that people ask in knitting and crochet Facebook groups that I’m in, things you’d think “everyone” knows like the Read More ...

An Easy Way to Keep Cross Stitch Fabric from Fraying

April 2, 2025 by Sarah White

If you’ve been cross stitching for a while, you might have heard of this hack before, but for our newer stitchers I wanted to mention it since I came across it again recently on the Koekoek blog.

One of the Read More ...

How Do You Decide What to Make Next?

February 28, 2025 by Sarah White

I always enjoy checking out Hannah Handmakes’ podcast, in part because I know I couldn’t talk about cross stitch for so long as consistently and well as she does, but also because she comes up with interesting topics that are Read More ...

How to Rip Out Cross Stitch Mistakes

February 22, 2025 by Sarah White

I’ve recently been doing more embroidery than usual, and while I do tend to be rather intuitive when I stitch rather than planning it out too much or caring if all the stitches are perfect, there was a particular section Read More ...

How to Dye Cross Stitch Fabric

February 14, 2025 by Sarah White

When I was learning to cross stitch as a kid, there were not a lot of options when it came to the color of cross stitch fabric. Other things may have been available, but in that age before the Internet Read More ...

Using Counting Pins in Cross Stitch

January 25, 2025 by Sarah White

Here’s another topic in cross stitch that I didn’t know anything about until I found a post about it: counting pins.

I mean, it makes sense that you could use pins as an alternative to gridding your cross stitch fabric Read More ...

Make Your Hoops Prettier to Use as Frames

January 17, 2025 by Sarah White

It’s popular to use embroidery hoops as frames for cross stitch projects, but a plain wooden hoop isn’t really that interesting as a way to present your hard work to the world.

Luckily it’s pretty easy to embellish an embroidery Read More ...

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