One of the fun things about crafting — especially in these times when we can’t physically get together with each other — is virtual events where people all make the same thing.
Stitchalongs are popular in most needle crafts and Read More ...
Cross Stitch for the Year of the Ox
While we recently celebrated the turn of the Western calendar to a new year, the Lunar New Year doesn’t happen until February 12, so there’s plenty of time to stitch something in honor of the upcoming year of the Ox. Read More ...
A Cross-Stitch Pattern to Celebrate the New Year
Well, that was some year we all just lived through, wasn’t it? If you want to mark the changing of the year in cross-stitch, check out this fun free pattern from Sassi Stitch.
It pretty much says it all: let’s Read More ...
Winter Fox Cross Stitch Pattern
Once we move on from Christmas, there is a lot of winter left, and it can feel sad to pack up all the holiday cheer and have to suffer through months without all that pretty stuff to look at.
Personally Read More ...
Let It Snow Cross Stitch Pattern
Now that we’re fully into winter in the northern hemisphere, lots of us are just wishing it would snow. Where I live it rarely snows but it’s still cold, which is just no fun at all.
The Let it Snow Read More ...
Winter Birds Cross Stitch Pattern
There’s something really nice about seeing colorful birds in the bare trees covered with snow. Even if you don’t live somewhere that gets a lot of snow, this winter birds cross stitch pattern from Well Stitches is a lovely one Read More ...
Dairy Herd Pattern
An idyllic pasture complete with a grazing herd is depicted in this charming landscape design from Julia Lucas. Stitched atop hand-dyed Jobelan, which mimics a late summer sky, this quick-to-stitch project uses full and partial cross stitches along with backstitches. Read More ...
Baby It’s Cold Outside Cross Stitch
I know the song “Baby It’s Cold Outside” is somewhat controversial but this snowman cross stitch pattern is super cute so I couldn’t resist sharing.
The pattern is 56 stitches square and uses four colors. The “frame” could be done Read More ...
Bringing in the New Year with Cross Stitch
After Christmas, the elves are still busy, because they have to change all the calendars in the new year. That seems to be story behind the new year’s cross stitch pattern from Les Petits Bonheurs de Miss T.
There’s lots Read More ...
A Wintry New Year Cross-Stitch Pattern
One of the great things about new year’s cross stitch patterns is that it’s pretty easy to change the year to use a pattern that was produced years before for a different year.
For instance, this winter-themed Happy New Year Read More ...