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
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
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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 ...
Tools for Adding Beads to Cross Stitch
It’s always fun to add a little something extra to your cross stitch patterns, regardless of whether the project actually calls for it.
One way to make a cross stitch design a little more special is to add beads. Some Read More ...