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Stitch Fine Art with this Fun Kit

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Cross Stitch Creations: Fine Art shows you how to recreate classic artwork from the masters in cross stitch.

Take your needle art to the next level and recreate some of the finest masterpieces in history.

From van Gogh to Klimt to Munch, the projects and artists found in Cross Stitch Creations: Fine Art represent a wide range of art movements in the painting world.

Cross Stitch Creations: Fine Art includes a 64-page instruction book that details how to create works originally painted by van Gogh, Klimt, Matisse, Hokusai, and many others:

  • Composition with Large Red Plane, Yellow, Black, Gray, and Blue by Piet Mondrian
  • The Swan (No. 16) by Hilma af Klint
  • Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci
  • Color Study, Squares with Concentric Circles by Wassily Kandinsky
  • Curtain, Jug, and Fruit by Paul Cézanne
  • Sunflowers (Fourth Version) by Vincent van Gogh
  • Flowers in a Rococo Vase by Paul Cézanne
  • The Scream of Nature by Edvard Munch
  • The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh
  • The Creation of Adam by Michelangelo
  • The Tree of Life by Gustav Klimt
  • The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Katsushika Hokusai

The kit also includes some materials for making some of the projects, but as you might imagine a lot of colors are involved in some of these projects so there aren’t materials that could be used to make all of them.

Have you seen this book? I’d love to hear your thoughts!

About the book: 64 pages, 12 patterns, $21.99/£12.99, published by Quarto.

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Everything You Need to Know About Embroidery Hoops

One of the most common supplies for cross stitch, aside from fabric, needles and floss, is an embroidery hoop. A hoop isn’t needed for every project, and indeed there are some stitchers who prefer not to use them at all. I generally don’t use a hoop when I’m working on a small cross stitch project, especially something that’s shape isn’t conducive to using a hoop (like a bookmark). 

But embroidery hoops can be really helpful for cross stitch because they hold your fabric at an even tension, which allows you to stitch more evenly without any more work on your part. It’s great for beginners to use hoops because the tension on the fabric can both help make your stitches more even and make the holes in the fabric a little easier to see. 

I’ll admit to always just buying whatever hoop is available in the right size when I’m ready to start a project without giving it much more thought than that. But there are things you should consider when choosing among the different kinds of hoops, which Caterpillar Cross Stitch covers in their great guide to embroidery hoops. 

The post walks you through wooden, plastic, spring tension and flexi hoops (which I’ll admit to having never heard of; they’re made of vinyl and plastic apparently), as well as Q-Snap frames, which aren’t really hoops because they’re made of plastic tubes that you snap together in the size and shape you need. 

It also covers what size hoop you should use for the project you’re working on and how to actually use a hoop in the right way. 

Whether you’re new to cross stitch or more seasoned, you’re sure to pick up a tip or a product to try in this post, so go check it out over at Caterpillar Cross Stitch. 

Do you have a favorite kind of embroidery hoop to use for cross stitch, or do you go without? I’d love to hear your thoughts!

[Photo: Caterpillar Cross Stitch]