Charts, patterns and everything needlepoint
Normally we think of cross stitching as happening on gridded fabric, but you can cross stitch anything that has holes, as we have seen from stitched peg boards and chain-link fences and other amazing large-scale projects.
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The Drawn Thread has a nice little collection of free charts you’ll want to check out, particularly for this time of year.
There’s a Santa and a Christmas-themed project or two and several having to do with snow.
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Not too long ago I shared a post about cross-stitching gift tags that used little sampler freebies from a magazine, but I suggested that it wouldn’t be too hard to do something similar on your own.
Since then I found Read More ...
I promised you a week of Christmas tree cross stitch patterns, and here is one more.
I love the classic look of this Christmas tree from Talons Aiguilles. The pattern is in French but you don’t really need it. Read More ...
Now, you probably don’t want to commit to stitching every. single. holiday. card you send, but for maybe a couple of really nice people, this stitched Christmas tree card would be a great thing to make.
I love the little Read More ...
It feels like it should be Christmas tree week, because everyone I know is trimming their tree and getting out their decorations (if they didn’t already do it before Thanksgiving!).
If you’d like to make some stitched trees, this week Read More ...
The other day I admitted to not having watched “Buffy, the Vampire Slayer” in the context of a Thanksgiving cross-stitch pattern, but I definitely grew up watching Home Alone (and judging those parents for being so terrible they forgot their Read More ...
Here’s a great pattern for a Christmas ornament or even if you wanted to hand-stitch some Christmas cards.
The Joy design from Yiota’s XStitch is 5.5 inches square worked on 14-count Aida, so it’s a great size for an ornament Read More ...
Subversive Cross Stitch has a lot of great holiday-themed designs, but I think this one is new this year and it’s pretty amazing.
Because googly eyes.
I mean, come on.
The pattern features a reindeer with googly eyes (OK, Read More ...
This is an idea, not really a pattern, but it shouldn’t be too hard to find tiny cross-stitch patterns that would work for such a purpose.
A couple of years ago Laura at Habbledabble wrote about using stitchied gift tags Read More ...