Memorial Day, which many of you are celebrating along with me here in the US today, has always been the harbinger of Summer. It certainly didn’t feel like a summery day when I took my little doggy out for a walk this morning, but once the sun came out the temperature began climbing upward very quickly. In honor of the summer season, Happiness is Cross Stitching has provided the sweetest little kitty cat chart fit for a summer’s day. This chart will stitch up in no time. You could use it as an ornament, add it to a tote bag or even stitch it on a t-shirt. DMC has soluble canvas that will make adding the design to a tote or t-shirt a snap. A stitching friend of mine used it for a recent project and she reports that it worked perfectly. Get the free chart.
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Ways to Display Your Cross Stitch Projects
I think most of the time when we make cross stitch projects, we are pretty conventional in how we choose to display them. We might mount them on a board of some sort, or show them in a frame.
Sometimes we might make special kinds of projects that are displayed or used in different ways, such as making cross stitch bookmarks, holiday ornaments or badges.
Or we might stitch onto fabric that isn’t meant to be for cross stitch at all, such as adding a monogram to a set of napkins or stitching a design or some words on an apron or something cute on a tea towel.
But there are more things you can do with cross stitch beyond this handful of options.
Craft with Cartwright has a list of 26 different ways you can display finished cross stitch projects, which are sure to get your imagination going.
I love this list as a way to think about making cross stitch gifts for people for the holidays or other occasions. It’s a reminder that we don’t have to make a big thing and frame it (though the one Christmas gift I’m working on is going to be framed).
We can make magnets or iron on patches for clothes (that’s one I hadn’t thought of before!). There are lots of different ways to make ornaments, from tiny frames to making a little stuffed pillow or pincushion style ornament.
You can make wall hangings, or gift tags, or even make your own frames if you want to frame your pieces for display.
There are so many great ideas in this list and I don’t want to give them all away, so head to Craft with Cartwright to check them all out. There are tutorials to all of the different projects and presentation ideas, so you’re sure to find something to spark a new project idea for you.
[Photo: Craft with Cartwright]
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