Get these vintage border-embroidery patterns — free for personal use — from Stitchado Handmade.

Get these vintage border-embroidery patterns — free for personal use — from Stitchado Handmade.

Look what you can get on Pimp Stitch! The stitching divas are sharing this adorable Love Bugs pattern for hand embroidery. Go get it.

Colleen of CraftPad shares this idea for getting your little one started in stitching. She slipped a piece of loose-woven jute into a large embroidery hoop and gave it to her young daughter with some bright flosses, plastic embroidery needles, … Read More...

CC of Lace ‘n’ Ribbon Roses blog is sharing another Sunbonnet Sue embroidery pattern. This time Sue and her friend Hannah have been gathering eggs. So sweet. Get the pattern.

Sunbonnet Sue is a classic embroidery pattern that has … Read More...

Check the Bargello Needlepoint blog for an excellent reference list. The do’s and don’ts apply equally well to almost any needlepoint project. See the post.

Tanya (aka The Sampler Girl) has re-released her Virtue sampler, which features a vintage 1823 verse. Lovely. Find out more from At the Honeysuckle Tree blog.

Janet Perry of Nuts About Needlepoint is sharing this darling Sunbonnet Sue mini-sock design plus detailed instructions for how to stitch the piece. What a lovely gift! See the tute.

Sunbonnet Sue is a classic embroidery pattern that has … Read More...

Jenny Hart of Sublime Stitching is sharing this sweet kokeshi doll pattern for hand embroidery. Get the pattern.

Connie G. Barwick, editor of About.com’s cross-stitch blog, is sharing a sweet pattern that you can stitch up in time for Mother’s Day. This pattern incorporates candlewicking, a style of knot-embroidery that is explained in detail on Connie’s … Read More...

Sister Diane of CraftyPod shows us how to make those wildly popular fabric postcards. See her tute on CraftStylish and try your hand.

Have you seen the latest from Jenny B. Harris of Allsorts? The Wedding set of hand-embroidery designs incorporates “Pretty Maids” style dolls and wedding-day bits that you can combine any way you like. Jenny says,

This one has so

SharonB of Pin Tangle blog is about to begin documenting another section of her For Love of Stitching band sampler. As much as I enjoyed the series of beautifully executed and applied basic stitches from the last section, I’m looking … Read More...

A new offer from Di van Niekerk’s Crafts Unlimited:

FREE with every order that you place for more than R350.00 (about US$ 40) you will receive this gorgeous yellow topiary rose printed onto pure cotton.

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Wow. After seeing what Judy Hartman is doing with applique, I’m going to have to find another name for the fiddly piddling I do. Just look at this portrait of her daughter, Kate, with their cat, Kristy. Judy says,

I’m

My heart leaps a little when I discover a chart for a plastic canvas project that is cool and useful. FreePatterns.com is sharing the chart for this perky horned owl (designed by Alida Macor) that would make a great … Read More...

Claudia of Stitchado Handmade is sharing these adorable vintage nursery-rhyme patterns for your personal embroidering pleasure! Get the patterns.

Claudia of Stitchado Handmade is sharing these adorable vintage nursery-rhyme patterns for your personal embroidering pleasure! Get the patterns.

Claudia of Stitchado Handmade is sharing these adorable vintage nursery-rhyme patterns for your personal embroidering pleasure! Get the patterns.

Claudia of Stitchado Handmade is sharing these adorable vintage nursery-rhyme patterns for your personal embroidering pleasure! Get the patterns.