Terri of Weaving a Life says,

It has been a year since my Earth Loom was set-up. Over that time, many things have been woven into it by many different people.

This idea is so wonderful, it actually…

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I love this series of embroidery designs from Kell of Kincavel Krosses. She’s rendering common greetings in Braille for cross-stitch. Or you can substitute French knots. Or you can add the related text with a backstitch alphabet. Or…

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Get the lowdown on creating tatting diagrams from expert Jon Yusoff. She says her notes “are more like tips and hints on how to make the drawing process easier and faster” rather than a tutorial for using certain software. “You…

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This beautiful desktop calendar for August, featuring the embroidery of SharonB, is a free download from Pin Tangle blog. Go get it.

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Sarah Whittle shows us how to stitch detached buttonhole bars, the perfect stitch for creating lacy spiderwebs. See the tute.

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Georgia Seitz is passing the word that the Palmetto Tat Days Scholarship Fundraiser Quilt is ready to be raffled. She says,

Over 70 international tatters have been working on the scholarship fundraiser crazy quilt for Tat Days 2010. It has

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Oooooo! Look what Melissa Crowe (Checkout Girl) is up to: She’s sponsoring a contest that combines her two great creative loves — embroidery and poetry. She invites us to embroider a poem and submit a photo to a…

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CrafTown.com publishes readers’ original craft designs, and right now they’re especially interested in “beefing up” their cross-stitch offerings. Although it’s not a paying gig, I’ve heard through the grapevine that the site gets 600,000 to 800,000 hits a month, which might…

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I received a sweet note from reader Sivani, gently pointing out an inaccuracy in credit for a design. I’ve been posting links to the French blog plaisirdecreer, which has been sharing a beautiful blackwork sampler in instalments. Sivani is either…

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Yikes! I almost let a great freebie slip by! Urban Threads‘ e-newsletter points to a free lace spiderweb design and says,

It’ll make a sweet coaster, doily, or spooky decoration for your haunted house. Freestanding lace is awesome, and if

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Laura Wasilowski of Artfabrik blog recommends using variegated thread to add life to hand stitching. She says,

Changes in color value or hue make the surface more active and tantalize the eye. I’m making small quilts and I

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This gorgeous, colorful stitchery by Parpi of CRESUS artisanat seems improvisational. It’s got that kind of energy. And it makes me so happy. That’s all.

See more on Parpi’s blog.

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This week’s TAST challenge is triple chain stitch. (See the tute on SharonB‘s Pin Tangle blog.) Shirley of Shirley’s Twisted Threads wasted no time in trying this one out. Within 24 hours after the challenge was…

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The July 2010 issue of CQ Mag Online is available now. This instalment of the free e-zine for crazy quilters features an article on embroidering silk prints by Kathy Shaw (Shawkl); a lesson on making composite…

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Kim of big B shares her latest adventure with 100 stitches through a tutorial on zig-zag coral stitch. See the tute.

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