It’s no secret: If The Lone Beader wants to create it, I want to see it. Love, love, love her quirky and original bead embroidery. I’m thrilled to see that two of her works are featured in Great Dogs, Amazing Artists:…

Here’s a new pattern from Nicole of Follow the White Bunny. Pindsvin or Adventures of a Danish Hedgehog is available from her Etsy shop at a reduced promotional price through Sunday. So grab it now! Get the details from Nicole’s post.

This so rocks! Gina E. has a blog called Patra’s Peacock Collection, which is a veritable online museum of peacock needlework. The collection is especially heartwarming for me. My mother’s grandmother taught her to embroider, and her first piece was a…

Janet of Primrose Design shares an incredible vintage find. This may look like chickenscratch from a distance, but wait till you see it close up! See Janet’s post.

Urban Threads be celebrating Talk Like a Pirate Day (September 19) by sharin the booty wi’ ye.

This seaworthy pirate ship design be FREE through Sunday, Sept. 27, and is available in machine embroidery, hand embroidery, and digital stock art formats. Let this sketchy design set sail…

I love doe-c-doe’s new needleart rendition of a wood-paneled station wagon, and I double-love how she made it work. She says,

I created the wood paneling by scanning a piece of wood-grain contact paper then manipulated it in photoshop to make…

Jennifer Heynen posted a rockin tip over on the Art Bead Scene blog. Print out free paper rulers and tape them down to your desk and workbench. (Transparent packing tape would seal them down well.) Like Jennifer, every time I try to…

My heart is pounding with joy. Look at Mimi Kirchner’s latest tiny world. Pin trees in a pincushion landscape. Precious. See more photos on Mimi’s blog.

You’ll enjoy the interview of Sublime Stitching’s Jenny Hart over on kittykill’s blog. Jenny’s hinting at some exciting future developments! Check it out.

The chart for this beautiful fall needlepoint project, Breezes through the Treezes,  is free for your personal use from Cheryl Fall, editor of About.com’s needlepoint blog. Get the chart. And don’t miss Cheryl’s tips for working with the patterns available from…

You already know about the gorgeous embroidery created by Meri of Agulhas da Meri blog. But if you haven’t visited her blog lately, you should pay her a visit. These hydrangeas are just a few of the tasty bits of eye candy…

Be sure to check out Andrea Zuill’s new set of Halloween embroidery patterns. They’re more likely to make you say “awwwww” than “eeeeeeeeek,” although there are a few semi-scary skellies in there. You can get all five pattern sheets for…