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Extreme Crafters wanted for a new TV series!

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NOW CASTING EXPERT EXTREME CRAFTERS WITH BIG PERSONALITIES!

Are you obsessed with crafting? Do you treat crafting like a sport?  When it comes to skill, are you the Martha Stewart of your local town?  Is crafting a huge part of your social life? Do you enter crafting contests and consider yourself the ringleader of crafting for your community, state or even the nation?

If you visit the craft store and hobby shop more than you go to the grocery store and you are the “queen of crafting” with an outrageous personality that people would enjoy watching on TV like Paula Dean or Abbey Lee Miller—then a casting company wants to hear from you!

Emmy award winning Production Company is on the hunt for THE most EXTREME CRAFTERS to star in a new show about YOU! If crafting is your life and you want to share your skills with the rest of the world, then email them now!

Tell them CraftGossip sent you!

[email protected]

Please include

1.     Name and phone number

2.     City and State you live in

3.     Links to Website, FB, etc

4.     Recent pictures of you and some of your crafts

5.     A short paragraph about you, your personality, your crafting and why you’d be great for the show!

*** The ideal situation is for you to make a short casting video: include a bio on you and crafting, show off your wacky or outrageous personality, why people would want to watch you on tv and maybe show some of your crafts.  Be creative if you like!

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Cross Stitch Cards for All Occasions

I have never stitched a greeting card, but I kind of like the idea of it. It’s a card and a gift all in one, and hopefully one the recipient will hang onto for years to come. 

This collection of easy and colorful greeting card cross stitch patterns from Susan Bates (via Gathered) are a great place to start if you want to stitch your own greeting cards. 

These text-based designs cover a lot of card-sending events, such as:

  • get well soon
  • happy birthday
  • thank you
  • thinking of you
  • congratulations
  • anniversary
  • new home
  • good luck

The lettering is done in gradients and there are other details like hearts and stars, a house key and a gift, depending on the text. There are full cross stitches and back stitch on all of the cards, and they use 15 colors for the cross stitching and six for the back stitching (and just two colors are used for both, so it’s 19 colors total). 

The designs vary a bit in size but the biggest one is 52 by 67 stitches, which comes out to 3.75 by 4.75 inches or 9.5 by 12 cm when worked on 14 count fabric or 28 count evenweave. The text suggests beads are also used in the patterns but there’s no note of them in the key, so go wild and add some beads if you like. 

Designs are worked on a price of 6 by 8 inch/15 by 20 cm fabric and then mounted to a card with a colorful baking piece of card stock behind it. This is easy to assemble with whatever cardstock greeting cards you have on hand.

You can get the free charts as a PDF from Gathered. 

Have you ever stitched your own greeting cards? I’d love to hear about it, or let me know if these inspire you to try. 

[Photo: Susan Bates via Gathered]