This time of year is all about making old things new and giving a new look to things we might not have thought about before.
While this denim skirt makeover from Sulky was done with the decorative stitches on a Read More ...
Easy Ways to Store Embroidery Floss
I feel like this is something we have talked about before, but since I just bought my daughter a bunch of embroidery floss to go in her new sewing kit of Christmas, I need all the help I can get Read More ...
A New Skill for the New Year: Embroidering Your Handwriting
We often want to add letters to our cross stitch projects, whether to add a word or a date or a person’s initials. But it’s not always easy to find cross stitch fonts you like that will fit into the Read More ...
Simple Felt Ornaments are a Great Way to Practice Stitching
The other day I came across this pin on Pinterest, which is an image uploaded by a user of a simple embroidered felt Christmas ornament made all the more lovely with the addition of quite a lot of seed Read More ...
A Sweet Mitten Embroidery Pattern for Practice
We don’t delve into embroidery over here all that much, but every now and then I can’t resist.
This little project from Pam Ash designs is a great way to practice different embroidery stitches. The pattern features a pair of Read More ...
More on Cross-Stitched Gift Tags
Not too long ago I shared a post about cross-stitching gift tags that used little sampler freebies from a magazine, but I suggested that it wouldn’t be too hard to do something similar on your own.
Since then I found Read More ...
May the Holiday Season Bring You Joy
Here’s a great pattern for a Christmas ornament or even if you wanted to hand-stitch some Christmas cards.
The Joy design from Yiota’s XStitch is 5.5 inches square worked on 14-count Aida, so it’s a great size for an ornament Read More ...
One More Turkey to Cross Stitch
I know it’s Thanksgiving week already, but this simple turkey pattern from Mother Bee Designs is one that you still have time to stitch before the big feast.
It’s a pretty easy design, rated for beginners, and it only uses Read More ...
A Cool Idea for Your Holiday Gifts
This is an idea, not really a pattern, but it shouldn’t be too hard to find tiny cross-stitch patterns that would work for such a purpose.
A couple of years ago Laura at Habbledabble wrote about using stitchied gift tags Read More ...
Tips for Cross Stitching on Paper
We usually think of cross stitch as something we do on canvas or fabric, but there are lots of other possibilities.
I remember the first time I sewed with my sewing machine on paper and it just opened up a Read More ...