The other day I shared a post about personalized cross stitch gifts to make for people, and now I’ve got another one full of more ideas that you can personalize or not for the people on your list.
The post from Sirious Stitches delves a little bit more into the thought process that should go behind deciding what and whether to stitch for someone, so even if you don’t need the inspiration you should check that part of the post out. (Quote of forever: “Not everyone values your time, but YOU should.”)
It then goes through a bunch of basic categories that you should consider when you stitch for other people. Many of these are small, easy, still have time even in mid-December kind of ideas. There are classics like Christmas ornaments — a wide variety of which you see in the photo above — and bookmarks, but also some things you might not have thought of, like plastic canvas items (which I never think of as being a medium for cross stitch, though it’s perfect because you can cut it to the size of your project and it doesn’t fray).
The post also provides reminders you might need that you can stitch on all sorts of things (like clothing), or use stitched pieces in lots of different ways (like making bags with a cross stitch piece on the front).
In that sense this post is great for anyone who might just be wondering what else they can do with cross stitch. If you’ve just been stitching up projects framed in hoops (not that there’s anything wrong with that!) and you aren’t quite sure what else you can make, this post has a lot of great ideas. Even if you’re stitching for yourself. Which you aboslutely should be doing.
Check out all the great ideas at Sirious Stitches.
[Photo: Sirious Stitches]
