You’ve probably seen posts in recent weeks about CraftGossip’s new flickr pool. If not, Hey! CraftGossip now has a flickr pool!
You can upload photos of your creations. And in your profile, you can let us know how to find … Read More ...
New tatting-pattern site
Tatter extraordinaire Jon Yusoff of Jon’s Thread Escapade has opened a new blog, Jon’s Pattern Page, to hold her free (for personal use) tatting patterns and tutorials. Her latest tute shows how to add a corner to a facing-rings … Read More ...
Free online class: Thread painting
Mary Corbet of Needle ‘n’ Thread blog has posted a rockin review of Helen Stevens‘ site, Fritillary and True Embroideries. (Read the whole article; you’ll enjoy it.) I got especially excited when I read this: “If … Read More ...
Needlework LOLs
Connie posted a link on the Stitchin Fingers forum to Threadbared.com, a blog that ceased being updated more than a year ago, but whose hilarity lives on. I’m so glad the site hasn’t been taken down! … Read More ...
Inspiration: SnappyBibs
Jacqueline Asher, aka SnappyBibs, is a goddess of machine embroidery. For most of her products, she draws and digitizes her own designs, and they rock. You can see her work on her blog and in her Etsy shop… Read More ...
Tutorial: Put your paintstiks to work
It’s a good thing there’s no video camera attached to my computer. I would be embarrassed if you could see the happy dance I’m doing right now. Shake shake shake.
And what has given me such joy? A new tutorial … Read More ...
Join the hoopla
Hoopla, “the world’s most revolutionary craft zine,” is seeking contributions of opinion pieces, craft action reports, patterns and tutorials, photos of finished crafts, and (in a few instances, perhaps) poetry on the topic of Radical Inspiration. “We want to … Read More ...
Tutorial: Thumb pincushion
When I saw the link to this tutorial on tipnut.com, I had to squeal and squirm a little bit! Brilliant! Whether I’m doing applique or just repairing a hem, the handiest possible spot for a little pincushion would be … Read More ...
‘Tis the season to start your Christmas crafting
If hand-crafted Christmas gifts are on your to-do list, it’s time to get started! Patty at Pip Stitch blog pointed to an excellent tutorial on Quamut for making crayon-tinted, embroidered ornaments. The Quamut post doesn’t appear to be new, but … Read More ...
More Pachis work from Deepa
Deepa Balagopal of This and that blog has posted a new tutorial for this beautiful variation on Pachis-work embroidery, an Indian stitching technique. As Deepa pointed out in an earlier tutorial, “There’s nothing new in the type of stitches used. … Read More ...
Average Jane Crafter teaches live in Austin
Knowing the online personality of Rachel Hobson, aka Average Jane Crafter, I would jump at the opportunity to take any in-person class she wants to teach. And, as it turns out, she is teaching live this fall via … Read More ...
Six chances to win at sewforless.com
If you’re a freebie fanatic, then you already know about sewforless.com‘s regular Free Embroidery Stuff giveaways. They’re always good. But the current contest is even more awesome than usual because they’re going to pick six winners. Six. Six… Read More ...
Stitch this free verse pattern
The cross-stitch chart for this sweet verse is available free from FreePatterns.com. Download the chart.… Read More ...
Stamp an original cross-stitch design
Chloe at Tangled Thread blog is sharing and elaborating on a YouTube video by Leisure Arts designer Kathy Elrod. The gist: Use rubber stamps to create a design, and then stitch it. This idea definitely would work for noncross-stitch … Read More ...
Free “Butterfly Kisses” to embroider
Joan Gorman of Nini Makes blog is having one of her awesome giveaways. Just comment on her blog post about how you might use the design, and she’ll e-mail the PDF file of the pattern to you! You know you … Read More ...
