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Valentine's Day Pillow Project
Create this cute pillow for your favorite Valentine.
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Crafters With An Edge
If you're fed up with cutesy flowered tea cozy patterns, sweet-bears-wearing bowties stitching packs, then these are the crafters for you.
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Happy Holidays!
Christmas cross stitch charts from around the world
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Stitching into a New Millennium
Cross stitch designs for the new millennium.
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Design Your Own Cross Stitch
Here is a way to take your favorite verse and create a cross-stitch pattern of your very own.
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Photographing Cross Stitch Tips
Taking good photographs of finished cross stitch projects, whether for submission to a magazine, recording your work or posting to a blog is important and easily achieved
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Versatile Cross Stitching
Over the years cross stitching has become very popular. Using this easy stitch items such as beautiful pictures, greetings cards and other things can be made.
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Cross Stitching for Crafty Rebels
Julie Jackson started her own brilliant cross stitch design business creating snarky messages with bunnies,hearts and flowers. Check out some designs or make your own.
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Designing Cross Stitch Patterns
Sometimes it's hard to find just the right cross stitch pattern. That's why many stitchers are learning to design their own charts.
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"Follow Your Heart" Twin Cities Cross Stitch Tour
My adventures touring eight cross stitch shops in my local area. Several of them have websites, so even if you don't live in Minnesota USA, you may enjoy visiting these shops!
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Autumn Designs
Autumn designs for counted cross stitch.
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Beginner Cross-Stitch Projects
Picking the right project is important when starting to learn about cross stitch. The perfect project will teach new techniques and provide a foundation on which to build
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Design Software for Cross Stitch
A look at software packages for cross stitch designs.
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Easy Cross Stitch Gifts to Stitch
You don't have to spend months stitching a gift for someone. Here are some some suggestions for cross stitching a gift when you get an unexpected announcement.
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Finding Free Cross Stitch Patterns
Ever wonder how to find free patterns on the Internet? Check out this month's article for some hints and sites to help you.
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First Lady of Cross Stitch - Ginnie Thompson
Ginnie Thompson has inspired and taught thousands of people in the art of cross stitch. Because of her many accomplishments, Ginnie is known as the “First Lady of Cross Stitch.” Read about Ginnie's story during our celebration of Women's History Month.
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Holiday Senses
The holidays bring a lot of memories and traditions that stimulate all five of our senses. See, hear, touch, taste, and smell the holiday season through cross stitch.
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Holidays 2000
Get a start on holiday stitching
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Irish Cross Stitching
Counted cross stitch ideas for St. Patrick's day.
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Lacing & Framing Techniques
Proper lacing and framing techniques for your cross stitch.
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May Flowers
Free floral cross stitch patterns
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Springtime Designs
Springtime counted cross stitch ideas. Projects include an Easter egg and a child's birth record.
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Stitch Graffiti Book Review
Heather Holland-Daly, owner of the cross stitch design company Monsterbubbles, has written a book which takes an unusual approach to cross stitch and stitching projects.
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Stitching through the Alphabet
Freebies on the Internet from A to Z.
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Teaching Children to Cross Stitch
Teaching children to cross stitch and making memories in the process.
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Types of Needlework
Unlike plain sewing, needlework is all about adornment.
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Cross Stitching Techniques
While some cross stitchers prefer to use an embroidery stretcher frame or hoop, others use nothing. To find out what works best for you, try different tools and methods.
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Designing for Counted Thread: Part I
The first article in a series about how to design for counted thread. This article, Part I, covers the research process.
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Designing for Counted Thread: Part I
The first article in a series about how to design for counted thread. This article, Part I, covers the research process.
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Door Pillow Project for UFOs
For a super-quick gift or a great way to add something special to a boring room, use up your already-stitched projects to make a door pillow.
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Photo to Cross Stitch
We are so fortunate to have Elaine Layden from Layden with Stitches be our guest writer today. She has developed a website that has great information.
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Want to talk Cross Stitch? A Look into Boards
Everything you ever wanted to know about bulletin boards... netiquette, abbreviations, and where to find them.
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Your Own Cross Stitch Alphabets
Tired of tracking down suitable fonts for your project? Here's how to make your handwriting cross stitchable
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12 Ways to Carry Your Stitching with You
A list of ideas of bags for taking your stitching with you when you leave home.
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18th Century American Samplers
A look at the samplers of colonial America: the history, collecting, and reproducing.
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A crafty Christmas
Doing craft projects is part of the holiday season. Choosing a project is a good excuse to head for the magazine rack.
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Blackwork Embroidery
Brief description of Blackwork Embroidery with links to sites on the web.
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Christmas In June
Christmas in June is for all those that want to have all of their shopping done early so that they can avoid the mad Christmas rush and going out in the winter weather.
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Cross Stitch Basics
How to begin counted cross stitching
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Cross Stitch Flag Pin
Here is a nice flag pin to do in counted cross stitch for gift giving or wearing on National Holidays.
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Cross Stitch Magazines
Information about counted cross stitch magazines.
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Cross Stitch Photos For Magazines
There is nothing quite like seeing photographs of your cross stitch in print; however, how do you go about sending images of your work to magazines?
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Cross Stitch Your Photos
People who cross stitch may never tire of buying pre-packaged kits, but they'll certainly get a thrill playing with these easy cross stitch programs and their own photos.
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Cross-Stitch Tips for Success
How to prevent cross-stitching aches and pains. Discover the social aspects of stitching. Deal with storage, new projects and stitches and unfinished objects.
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Designing a Cross-Stitched Sampler
The trials and tribulations of designing a counted cross-stitch sampler are discussed here. Personalizing a gift that will be cherished year after year can be a lot of fun...and the challenge of doing it really gets the creative juices flowing.
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Easy Christmas Tree Ornaments
Would you rather sit with a cup of mulled apple cider admiring your Christmas tree or get stressed out decorating it? These instructions show you how to do the former.
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Embroidered Gloves, Hat and Scarf
Need a quick gift? Or maybe you just want to spice up a blah pair of mittens? Here's a great way to show off your stitching skills and make your winter more unique.
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Fabrics 101: The Traditional, the New, the Unusual
An description of available fabrics (conventional and unconventional) and how to use them.
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Free Patterns from A to Z
Free cross stitch patterns on the Internet - from A to Z!
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Happy Halloween Stitchers!
Halloween cross stitching!
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