Cross Stitch Projects to Celebrate the Eclipse

The total eclipse of 2017 is coming to North America, and while I don’t recommend stitching during the eclipse, you can make a project to celebrate this rather rare event.

Savage Damsal on etsy has an eclipse pattern, featuring suns, the phases of the moon and the date of the eclipse. It’s $5 to download the PDF pattern.

Hugs Are Fun has eclipse as the word for the letter E in her cross-stitched flash cards. At the time of this writing her site was not working, but here is the link to her flash cards just in case it starts working again, and you can see the photos of some of them over on Craftster, where at least you can use them for inspiration.

What are your plans for the eclipse? We have 91 percent totality here so we’re just staying home, but I have a lot of friends traveling the couple of hours from here it will take to experience totality.

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Religious Easter Cross Stitch Patterns

I recently wrote a post on my blog about using a stitchable journal cover and I mentioned that you can make your own stitched cover for a journal by using perforated paper instead of buying a stitchable notebook.

I have to admit, though, that I’ve never used perforated paper for cross stitch myself. I definitely want to because I think it would be great to use for bookmarks that don’t fray and have a little more stability, for example.

Sirious Stitches has us covered, though, because they did a deep dive into all things perforated cross stitch pattern that is worth the time to read through.

The post mentions that a lot of people use perforated paper for cross stitch because they buy an ornament kit that uses it. I’ve never seen these (or at least never noticed that that is what they were) but it’s a great idea to make small projects like ornaments in this way. It also talks about the pros and cons of using cross stitch paper, where to buy it and how to make your own.

Making it yourself is an awesome idea because if you already have a pattern in mind you can just make holes in your paper where you need stitches to be and leave the rest solid. This would be ideal for making greeting cards, for example.

In addition to kits and sheets you can often find the paper pre-cut into different shapes you can use to make your own designs, no real pattern required.

The post also includes tips and advice for how to stitch on perforated paper that you’ll want to check out before you try your first project.

I’m super intrigued by the idea of using perforated paper for cross stitch and will probably be trying it out soon. Have you used it before? I’d love to hear your thoughts.

Check out the post over at Sirious Stitches for more information.

[Photo: Sirious Stitches]

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