If you’re looking for a ton of easy cross stitch designs to use for Christmas projects, look no further than Claire Crompton’s The Ultimate Cross Stitch Christmas Collection, which includes more than 500 charts for tiny stockings, angels, ornaments Read More ...
Book Review: Stitch Alphabets & Numbers
I came across a post recently from Lord Libidan wondering about where all the good cross stitch alphabets have gone. While you can find lots of fonts on Etsy (and I even shared a few good cross stitch fonts recently) Read More ...
Book Review: Cross Stitch Cabinet of Curiosities
If you’re a fan of the strange and unusual, little trinkets gathered from here and there, natural wonders and found objects, you’ll enjoy the projects in Grace Isobel’s Cross Stitch Cabinet of Curiosities: 500 Magical Motifs and Peculiar Patterns. Read More ...
Book Review: Cross Stitch Celebrations Bundle of Joy!
Many crafters like to use their skills to make gifts for new babies, and when it comes to cross stitch, making a stitched birth announcement is a classic.
These projects often include the baby’s name along with information like date Read More ...
Book Review: 200 Japanese Cross Stitch Designs
If you like repeating cross stitch designs, borders you can use on other projects or as bookmarks, florals and Japanese-inspired designs, you’ll want to check out 200 Japanese Cross Stitch Designs by Saeko Endo. This collection of 200 cross Read More ...
Book Review: My Cross Stitch Doll
Even as our kids’ lives get more saturated with technology, many kids still like playing with dolls and imagining worlds for them. Making a doll for a child is a lot of fun, and you can personalize them for the Read More ...
Review: The Ultimate Cross Stitch Pet Collection
If you’re a fan of dogs, cats, rodents, birds, horses or barnyard animals kept as pets, you might want to work some cross stitch patterns to represent your favorites. The Ultimate Cross Stitch Pet Collection by Claire Crompton features tons Read More ...
Review: Festive Christmas Stockings
Crafted Christmas stockings are, like, the pinnacle of craftiness. You know there’s a hard-core maker in the family when everyone has a handmade stocking (in my family it was my grandma; my mom has since taken up the tradition of Read More ...
Book Review: Retro Christmas Cross Stitch
I love a retro spin on just about anything, but retro and Christmas just seem to go together. Give me those giant old bubbling lights, blow mold Santas, fake tinsel … it all just seems so much more fun than Read More ...
Book Review: Lit Stitch
I feel like being a cross stitcher and a book lover tend to go hand in hand. And even if you’re not personally a big reader, you probably know someone who is and who you might like to stitch for. Read More ...