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3D Cross Stitch Spotlight – Various Ways to Make Dimensional Stitches
Bit of a different article this month — rather than a tutorial I wanted to do a bit of a spotlight of all the different ways people have come up with to make 3D cross stitch. There’s a lot of ways to tackle the three-dimensional shape, and hopefully these examples will give you some inspiration. […]
Cross Stitch Challenges: Ways to Gamify Your Stitching!
It’s December at the time of publishing this, and that means lots of you are either scrambling to finish up holiday stitches or already planning out your whole next year. Thankfully I’m in the latter camp. Instead, I’m planning next year’s cross stitch challenge. December is when I recap what I actually got done this […]
Custom Cording From Embroidery Thread
I’ve been wanting to make custom cording for a long time and just have never set aside the time to do so. Like with many of my explorations, making an article/tutorial on how to do it is a great incentive for me to make it finally happen. And now you have a reason to try […]
Cross Stitch Handmade Gift Ideas
A few years ago I put together a list of gift ideas for your favorite cross stitcher (even if that’s yourself!). But I’ve always wanted to make the opposite list — ideas stitchers can make as a handmade gift for others. As it turns out, that’s more difficult than it sounds. It really depends on […]
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 […]
Crafty Combinations: Crochet & Cross Stitch
It’s no secret that I’m a cross stitch fiend — but I actually enjoy a lot of different crafts and am always looking to try new things! And yet I always try and tie it back into cross stitch somehow. Whether that be sewing Q-snap cozies, making beaded scissor fobs, or getting creative with how […]
Perforated Paper for Cross Stitch – How To Get Started
Perforated paper isn’t talked about enough! A while ago I did a deep dive on plastic canvas and all the different things you can do with it for cross stitch. And it’s about time I did something similar for perforated paper. I don’t have nearly as much experience with it as I did with plastic […]
Embroidery Thread Inventory Checklists
The longer you spend in the cross stitch hobby, the more thread you just end up collecting over time. And inevitably you end up buying duplicates of colors because you didn’t know you already had them. Or because you couldn’t find the one you had. If that sounds familiar, it might be time to take […]