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.

Look how Creative Kismet  not only salvaged but improved a shirt with a bit of creative applique. She says,

I love the roses scattered nicely across, convienently covering up my messy stains.  This prolonged the wear-ability of this shirt for the…

You know how I’m constantly blogging about needlework luminaries Susan Elliott (Plays With Needles) and Allison Aller (Allie’s in Stitches)? Well, Allie showed up to teach a workshop for Susan’s Embroiderers’ Guild. Can you imagine? The chicks who got to participate…

This might be the cutest applique project ever. Mairuru applied her original hanging-sloth pattern to a bucket bag. Look! His little toes are gripping the inside of the bag! See more (including the beautiful finishing on the back of the bag)…

Rabid points out that Caron has completely revised its web site. She says,

Caron is one of the best-known specialty threads manufacturers in the US, and I’ve used all of their major product lines. Watercolours, Waterlilies, Wildflowers, and Impressions (a wool/silk blend…