Beginner Tutorials
Beginner-level cross stitch tutorials such as getting started, various thread starts, how to fix mistakes, wash your projects, or deal with fraying fabrics. However, everyone learns at a different pace so even long time stitchers may find some of the information here useful!
Large Projects: Tackling Huge Cross Stitch Patterns
Okay, so you’ve gotten through a few patterns and are ready to tackle some large projects. I mean big. Think Chatelaine, Paine Free Crafts. Or one of the epic Pokemon patterns. Feeling overwhelmed yet? Well, don’t! These aren’t technically any more difficult that stitching anything you’ve already stitched. Just more time consuming. I do have a few […]
Fraying Fabric – Various Ways to Deal With It
How annoying is fraying fabric for you? Some fabrics definitely fray more than others, and some people don’t mind fraying while others can’t stand it! What do I mean by fraying? When the edge of your fabric starts to unravel or come apart while you’re trying to work with it! The good news is there’s […]
Frogging – How to Fix Mistakes in Cross Stitch
The dreaded craft frog. Whether you’re a cross stitcher, you crochet, knit, or do any number of other thread art, you never look forward to frogging. But it is an inevitable thing. If there’s any universal truth in all of these kinds of crafts, it’s that counting to 5 consistently is hard. Making mistakes doesn’t […]
Gridding for Cross Stitch: Techniques to Help With Counting Stitches
In case you’re not familiar with the concept of gridding, it’s a technique mostly used on large cross stitch patterns to help the stitcher with counting and sizing. If you’ve ever seen an in progress photo of someone stitching where their fabric is covered in small squares, that’s gridding! There’s lots of different ways to […]
Thread Starts for Cross Stitch — 7 Ways to Anchor Your First Stitch
Hello everyone! This month I wanted to bring to you a quick rundown of some of the different ways to anchor your stitches when starting each new length of thread! There’s a few different thread starts that I use depending on the situation, and probably more out there. In my examples I’ll be using two […]
ORTs – What Do You DO With Your Leftover Cross Stitch Thread?
If you’ve been around the cross stitch or embroidery community for a while, you’ve probably come across the term ORT. But what are ORTs and why do people keep them around? According to the dictionary an ort is “a scrap or remainder of food from a meal.” ; so in stitching terms it’s the scrap […]
Washing your Cross Stitch: When and Why to Wash
Now here’s a question that gets brought up quite frequently in the Pixel Stitch discord — washing your work. I’ll start off by saying that washing is entirely a matter of personal preference, and people do it all sorts of different ways. Here I’ll be outlining reasons I choose to wash, and how I go […]
Black Aida: 6 Tips for Cross Stitching on Dark Fabrics
Hello! If you’ve stumbled across this post it’s likely you’ve tried cross stitching on black or otherwise dark colored fabrics. It’s also likely you’ve struggled with it. I’ve seen a lot of lovely designs that truly stand out best on black fabric. Vibrant colors just pop even more on dark backgrounds. You could do entire […]