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Feb
28
A free desktop calendar for March, featuring the needle art of Janet M. Davies, is available free from JMD Designs. Go get it.
Feb
28
If you’ll be near New York City on March 12 and you’d like to get started with tatting, sign up for the workshop being held at Mount Vernon Hotel Museum & Garden. The web site says,
Lost Art of Tatting–A
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Feb
28
Big things are in the works at the Textile and Fiber Art List. Rachel Biel, TAFA’s founder, says,
TAFA continues to move forward with its plans for a new website…Members will each have their own landing pages and
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Feb
28
Lacy Pischke of Pischke Pockets tipped us off to her awesome kits. She says,
Pischke Pockets is a fresh and fun approach to needlepoint. The kit includes a colorful woven cotton tote, needlepoint canvas, threads for stitching and attaching. Instructions
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Feb
28
That says it all! Go to Facebook and ”like” SWAKembroidery’s fan page. Go on!
Feb
28
Reader L. Ann pointed us to the Cross Stitch Writing Tool at StitchPoint. L. Ann says,
Create your favorite saying, slogan, verse, or whatever in a choice of 6 fonts for cross stitch. It will generate your printable chart
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Feb
28
March is National Craft Month! Yea! CraftGossip is honoring the occasion with surprises and giveaways, and the Needlework News blog has a rockin plan in the works with one of your favorite needlework celebrities. Watch for the announcement.
Feb
27
(1) Little Birdie from Shawkl
(2) “A” Motif (two designs) from Shawkl
(3) Another “A” from Shawkl
(4) KANSAS – Sunflower from turkey feathers
(5) A Happy Home by Jenny of Elephantz via Among the Gum Trees
(6) A Saltbox …
Feb
26
My day job and the flu kept me from timely posting of some of this year’s rockin valentine designs. Here are some you might want to download and save for next year’s love-y stitching.
(1) Bonne Saint-Valentin! from Echevette
(2) …
Feb
25
SharonB is sharing this “teaser” for the next set of worksheets she’s putting together. She says,
This is one of the examples I am using for whipped spoke stitch…Worksheets are designed by me to build into a hand embroiderer’s resource
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Feb
25
Ooooooooooo, gorgeous. Felted and embroidered pompoms from Shan Shan of tinytoadstool. See more photos at her blog post.
Feb
25
Sarah Jane needs your help. She says,
I am getting some new embroidery patterns ready for the shop, but I am hoping to have quite a few designs and I don’t think I’ll be able to hand embroider all of
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Feb
25
Kathy Shaw (Shawkl) demos a tricky but gorgeous Brazilian embroidery stitch. This hydrangea flower uses boucle thread, which gives it extra texture. See the tute.
Feb
23
For the March issue of Martha Stewart’s Living magazine, her crafty minions (known as The Crafts Dept.) forayed into cross-stitch. The upshot: a rockin tutorial for beginners, free patterns for some charming silhouette images and simple alphabets, and ideas …
Feb
23
Does it matter whether you stitch right-to-left or left-to-right? Mary Corbet says it does. Find out why from her Needle ‘n’ Thread blog post.
