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SWAKembroidery.com is celebrating its grand opening through July 5, and Janome is helping SWAK celebrate by sponsoring a giveaway. You can get in the running for a Janome 350e embroidery machine by signing up for SWAKembroidery.com’s free newsletter or by submitting…

Have I been lurking around on your needlework blog? Maybe.

I’m Denise, and I’ve been CraftGossip’s needlework editor since June 1. The mission of my blog is to present needlework news, so I’m always poking around on the Web looking for…

Deepa Balagopal is offering a tutorial on her blog for Kamal Kadai, a style of embroidery native to the state of Andhra Pradesh, India. This embroidery technique incorporates surface weaving with beautiful results. Take a look at Deepa’s lesson.

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In a hidden corner of Tiny Birds Organics’ web site is a page of free cross-stitch patterns for birds and nature-related alphabets, including this precious hummingbird. I can’t find any identification of the artist on the page, but blogger Linda S. at…

An exhibition is brewing that every needlework artist needs to know about: Cyber Fyber. Here’s the description from the official site:

“CYBER FYBER is an exhibition of international fiber art scheduled for January 8th through 20th, 2009 at Gallery 80808/Vista Studios, 808…

Carol Lenthall’s pages for the Bead Journal Project are beautiful, captivating, and most of all innovative. By combining simple bead forms and cabochons in improvisational but basically geometric patterns, she creates a jeweled fabric that invites the eye to move, study,…

If you’ve ever spent hours squinting at graph paper to chart your own text for an embroidery project, you are going to adore this new online tool from StitchPoint. Text in stitches lets you choose one of four cross-stitch fonts or…

Calamity Kim has blogged a great tutorial for creating an embroidery pattern from a photo. Get the lowdown here. And thanks to Feeling Stitchy for pointing to this nifty idea.

This little cone is the perfect summer treat for cross-stitchers. The Pink Ice Cream pattern, designed by Debra Page, is available free from the chart shop. Download it here.

Look what Anne Weaver (aka casserole) is doing with bits of felt, metallic thread, sequins, and beads. Rings! “They’re bright, they’re shiny, and they’re a bit whimsical,” she says, “It’s like the trifecta of costume jewelry!” You can see more examples…

Mary Corbet over at Needle ‘n’ Thread blog is sharing an alphabet for hand-embroidered monograms that she’s salvaged from La Broderie Blanche, a French embroidery magazine published in 1912. As always, Mary is also offering lots of tips and suggestions for using these…

The new embroidery site we’ve all been waiting for, Pimp Stitch, launched yesterday. In celebration, the companion blog is offering this free embroidery pattern by Tamie Snow of Roxycraft. The patterns available from the Pimp Stitch online store are by the talented…

With a few simple instructions from Diane Gilleland, you can create an adorable embroidered greeting card like this one. See her tutorial on CraftStylish.

If you’re attracted to silk ribbon embroidery, but you don’t have a clue how to get started, check out the new video tutorials by Melissa of Honey Bee’s Bliss. The first three videos in this series show how to prepare the…

This image is not a photograph; it’s a work of bead embroidery–Atalanta’s Apple–by Amy Clark Moore. Moore’s web site says, “Amy Clarke Moore creates photo-realistic images from her everyday life with bead embroidery by stitching size 15 Japanese seed beads to…

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