• Home
  • Suggest A Craft
  • DIY Newsletter

Cross-Stitch

Charts, patterns and everything needlepoint

  • About CraftGossip
  • Our Network
    • Bath & Body Crafts
    • Candle Making Ideas
    • Crochet Ideas
    • Cross Stitch
    • Edible Crafts
    • Felting Patterns
    • Glass Art
    • Home & Garden Ideas
    • Indie Crafts
    • Jewelry Making
    • Kids Crafts
    • Knitting Patterns
    • Lesson Plans
    • Needlework
    • Party Ideas
    • Polymer Clay
    • Quilting Ideas
    • Recycled Crafts
    • Scrapbooking
    • Sewing Patterns
    • Card Making
    • DIY Weddings
    • Not Craft Ideas
  • Giveaways
  • Roundups
  • Store
  • Search

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 ...

Tools for Adding Beads to Cross Stitch

January 11, 2025 by Sarah White

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 ...

All About Cross Stitch Hoops

January 3, 2025 by Sarah White

One of the tools that I consider essential for most cross stitchers is an embroidery hoop, but I know it’s not really essential.

A lot of the stitching I have been doing lately has been on really small projects where Read More ...

Have You Worked a Stamped Cross Stitch Project?

December 30, 2024 by Sarah White

When I was first learning to cross stitch as a teen in the 1990s, I remember there being a lot of beginner kits available where the cross stitch pattern was stamped onto the fabric for you to stitch. This process Read More ...

New Year’s Resolutions for Cross Stitchers

December 26, 2024 by Sarah White

As the year comes to a close, you might be thinking about things you want to do, or do differently, in your life in the next year, and your crafting life should definitely be part of whatever resolutions or goals Read More ...

How to Cross Stitch on a Chair

December 24, 2024 by Sarah White

I love seeing different ways that cross stitch can be worked on unusual surfaces, from strainers to chain link fences and more. One slightly more common way to add cross stitch to your home without using cross stitch fabric is Read More ...

How and Why to Make a Needle Book

December 16, 2024 by Sarah White

I have to admit that I am not at all careful when it comes to storing my needles for cross stitch, embroidery and hand sewing. Sometimes I will put them back in the package they came in, but just as Read More ...

A Great Cross Stitch Holiday Gift Guide

November 29, 2024 by Sarah White

I am not the most experienced at cross stitch so I’m not always aware of the best tools and supplies that a cross stitch enthusiast might want. So now that we’re in the season of gift lists, you probably don’t Read More ...

How to Store Embroidery Needles

November 23, 2024 by Sarah White

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 Read More ...

  • « Previous Page
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • …
  • 169
  • Next Page »

Categories

Book Reviews Christmas Craft Businesses Craft Inspirations Craft News and Events Cross-Stitch Patterns & Charts Cross-Stitch Product Reviews Cross-Stitch Website Reviews Dogs & Cats Easter flowers Free Patterns Halloween More Cross Stitch Product Reviews spring Subversive Thanksgiving Tutorials and Patterns valentines day

RSS More Articles

  • Corn Learning Activities
  • Frosty Flower Top- Free Crochet Pattern
  • DIY Menopause Bath Bombs for Hot Flashes and Hormone Support
  • Create Cute Costumed Critter Cards for Halloween
  • Super Easy Bows for Scrunchies: A Fun and Quick DIY Project
  • Go Back to Basics with Common Cross Stitch Terms
  • DMC EJ DMC Self-Care Embroidery Pattern – A Mindful Stitching Moment for Slowing Down
  • A Textured Knit to Get You to Fall
  • Scrappy Crafty Mini Album Project
  • Free Quilt Pattern: Haunted House Row Quilt

Pick Your Blog

  • Sewing
  • Knitting
  • Quilting
  • Crochet
  • Home & Garden
  • Recycled Crafts
  • Scrapbooking
  • Card Making
  • Polymer Clay
  • Cross-Stitch
  • Edible Crafts
  • Felting
  • Glass Art
  • Indie Crafts
  • Kids Crafts
  • Jewelry Making
  • Lesson Plans
  • Needlework
  • Bath & Body
  • Party Ideas
  • Candle Making
  • DIY Weddings
  • Not Craft
  • Free Craft Projects

Copyright © 2025 · CraftGossip | Start Here | Contact Us | Link to Us | Your Editors | Privacy and affiliate policy