DJ of Prick And Stitch Is My Craft has posted a tutorial to help the-not-so-technology-savvy change the size of a pattern electronically. See the Pinbroidery site for the details.

This month’s Stitch Explorer Challenge on Pin Tangle blog is needleweaving. SharonB says, “Simply apply the key idea of weaving a thread to create an interesting surface  and see where it can take you.” Get the details.

Don’t miss the review by Mackenzie Frere (art cloth text) of the 2009 ACAD Grad Show. Expect to be awed and jealous! See the post.

It’s Embroidery Thursday on doe-c-doe blog, so you’ll want to drop by and download the sweet vintage border patterns she’s sharing with us today. But you’re also going to want to get a closer look at her latest fanciful stitchery: a…

Have you been watching the development of The Lone Beader’s most recent project? If not, head over to her blog now and catch up on the totally beaded White House. The brickwork alone gives me tears of joy. See the…

Bead-embroidery goddess Robin Atkins is celebrating the anniversary of her blog, Beadlust, by giving away three gifts. She says,

Each winner will receive a gift package containing an archival giclee print (signed & numbered) of Rosie, The Uncaged Hen and a little goodie bag…

Get this vintage embroidery pattern free from stitchado handmade blog.

This gorgeous needlepoint band is just one element of the Love of Stitching Sampler that SharonB is sharing with us. She says,

This band is a pattern made up of half Algerian eye stitch turned on an angle, surrounded by straight stitch. A row of cross…

Tanya (aka The Sampler Girl) is sharing her original design for embellishing a scissorkeep bag. Stitch it up and share your accomplishment by e-mailing a photo of your finished project to Tanya. Get the chart.

Jon Yusoff of Jon’s Patterns Page shared the pattern for this lovely tatted heart as a Mother’s Day gift to her readers. I’m sorry I didn’t pass the word in time for that holiday. But now that you know it’s available, there’s…

There’s a new free vintage embroidery pattern over on stitchado handmade. Hi-ho, Silver! Go get him.

Run over to Cathy Cullis‘ november moon blog and take a look at her poetry hearts. I continue to be thoroughly amazed by her free-motion machine embroidery — particularly her adept lettering. Wow. See the post.

Just in case you haven’t started collecting them yet…Mary Corbet of Needle ‘n’ Thread is sharing a Celtic monogram series. The latest addition is the letter V. Go to Mary’s blog to get all the free patterns.

Janet Perry of Nuts About Needlepoint has great advice for needlepoint beginners. Find out what makes a canvas easy to stitch. Go to the blog.

Win a copy of OESD’s Fantastic Flora Embroidery Design CD-ROM — a US$129.99 value — from sewforless.com. These beautiful machine-embroidery motifs are royalty-free, so you can sell products that incorporate the designs (with some restrictions). Go to sewforless.com to enter.