The Textile and Fiber Art List, founded by Rachel Biel, has reached an important milestone: its first anniversary. How is Rachel celebrating? By making big plans for year two. She says,
… Read More ...2012 promises to be a year of
Stitch along with feeling stitchy
feeling stitchy is sponsoring its first-ever stitch-along! Claudia of Stitchado provided the first pattern. Grab it and get the SAL details from the feeling stitchy post.… Read More ...
Custom needlepoint kits from NeedlePaint
Seth Berman kindly gave us the heads-up about the NeedlePaint site. The home page says,
… Read More ...Create your own needle paint canvas in a few easy steps! Just upload your image…and you’ll get an immediate preview of your custom canvas. Make
New embroidery BOM: Ninjas!
Kandra of My Life shares this great news:
I will be hosting a block of the month in 2011. Every 1st day of the month (or there abouts) I will release a ninja themed embroidery pattern. I’m so excited!
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Free patterns: Jacobean Leaves
Kelly Fletcher‘s Jacobean Leaves embroidery designs, featured in Inspirations magazine, are now available free from her website! Get the PDF files.… Read More ...
New kits: Valentine pins
I heart these new kits from Karen of maggie makes. Buy the kit and make a softie pin for your valentine. The kit includes everything you need, right down to the hoop and needles. Or give a kit to a … Read More ...
Free patterns: Flutter By series
Great news!! Kelly Fletcher of materialistic has started a new free-pattern series–“six butterflies,” she says, “with a hint of summer in the colourway.” Go to her blog post for the link to the first fab download.… Read More ...
A beautiful combo from SharonB
I adore this stitch combo from SharonB‘s For the Love of Stitching band sampler. Simple, classic, beaded perfection. Get the details from Sharon’s Pin Tangle blog post.… Read More ...
Tweens try free-motion embroidery
Gina of Fan My Flame shows off the fabulous results of giving eight 10- and 11-year-old girls a little instruction in free-motion embroidery and then turning them loose on a portrait project. See their rockin work on Gina’s blog post… Read More ...
Inspiration: Shirlee Fassell
Shirlee Fassell of Needle and Hook gives us some luscious glimpses of her latest work, a “crazy art quilt.” See more photos on her blog post.… Read More ...
Tutorial and pattern: Valentine owl
Lisa of 5 Orange Potatoes shows us how to applique, embroider, and assemble this sweet valentine owl. See the tute.… Read More ...
Check out these long-stitch kits
Melissa of Day to Day was inspired by her daughter’s long-stitch project. (The kit was a gift from grandmother.) So she started searching for kits worthy of her time, and she found some real winners. She shares her finds and … Read More ...
Free patterns: Hand embroidery
Looking for more Punch Needle Embroidery patterns? Check these out on Etsy.
We have created this quick list with links to each pattern. We have tried to choose free patterns to suit something for everyone.
Please note that these patterns … Read More ...
Free charts: Cross-stitch
Parpi tries rug hooking
Parpi of Cresus Artisanat applies her unique artist’s eye to rug hooking. Check it out.… Read More ...