Yiotas-xstitch is giving away a kit for this gorgeous tiger portrait in cross-stitch! Go to the site for entry details. And be sure to enter before June 30.

Many thanks to reader Mary, who shared this news with us. Cheers, Mary!

Just in time for Independence Day in the US, Urban Threads is sharing a machine embroidery pattern that will make lots of folks salute! Karline says,

Urban Threads has a new free design out - “Declare Independence”! It’s a distressed American flag…

Cathy Cullis has moved to a new blog home (though November Moon will stay open as an archive). To celebrate, she’s giving away this lovely piece of her original work. She says,

I am offering a new design, this black heart, stitched in my…

Did you squeal a little bit when this photo opened? I did!! Art4Sol’s Spring Bird Watcher doll deserves close examination. Those eggs are knitted and then attached. And I love the bird’s jewel head feathers. Go to her blog to see…

DJ of Prick And Stitch Is My Craft is sharing her original pattern for a sweet pair of roses. She says,

This beautiful rose pattern is easy for beginners to stitch and if you are experienced at greetings card embroidery you will…

Whooooo is giving us this free embroidery pattern? Andrea Zuill of Badbird’s blog. Get the pattern.

If you watch SharonB’s “CQ Detail” series over on Pin Tangle blog, you see plenty of lovely seam treatments that deserve to be emulated. I’m giving this one special mention because I love the way it demonstrates the power of color…

Wow. Look what Mary Stanley of Art Spirit has been hooking! Here’s a nifty modern use for your traditional wool-strip rug-hooking skills. Mary says,

…hooked circles that will be pins or flowers. This group I hooked on burlap, trimmed and glued the sides…

This morning I flipped quickly through post after post in my blog reader. Until I came to this page, which stopped me in my tracks and made me gasp. Susan Elliott is freakin amazing. This salute to tea is a piece…

This delectable bit of quilting embroidery applique fabric origami needleart is a book cover created by Calamity Kim for her friend Petunia. Go to CK’s blog to find out how she did it.

Lainie of Red Thread Studio offers this heads-up on her blog:

Hand/Eye is a very exciting new magazine about global textile explorations, sustainable textiles and craft, and the relationship between culture and craft…I’m not sure if there is a print edition, but the online…

Mark your calendar for July 1. That’s the release date for Janet Perry’s first e-book, Patchwork Blocks for Needlepoint & Cross Stitch. (An incredible bargain at US $5!) While you’re waiting to download the book of about 50 translations of patchwork…

This made my heart flutter: Fine art from appliqued yo-yos. Yes! This work is by Ruth Singer and is included in an exhibition of her art at Galanthus Gallery in Herefordshire, UK. Find out more from Ruth’s blog, Mantua Maker.

Martha of Martha’s Tatting Blog gives us the heads-up about Palmetto TatDays in Winnsboro, SC, USA, September 11-12, where she’ll be teaching these lovely projects. Find out more about Martha’s classes from her blog. Or go directly to the event’s site to…