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Hi!  I am the new Jewelry Making Editor for CraftGossip.  Here is a tiny bit about me, for more please see my bio on the editors page which should be up soon:

I have been beading since I was 5, sitting on the floor of one of my Mom’s best friend’s living room wrapped in a blanket with the sniffles, listening to Chicken Soup for the Soul on a record, stringing plastic white and purple beads into a necklace for my Mom and feeling like I had totally found my element.

That was just the tip of the iceberg in my love affair with jewelry.  I trained as a jeweler at UMass Dartmouth and made personalized tiaras, went on to write my Masters thesis on jewelry collecting, and then went to work for the Sotheby’s Jewelry Department in London, where I worked for over 4 years.

I am now a stay at home mom with a wonderful little boy and a little girl on the way and write a blog on contemporary jewelry in my spare time, which you can find here.

I love all things jewelry and will do my best to include here posts on different techniques, styles, artists, materials and exhibitions to name a few – but be sure to drop me a line if there is anything specific that you want to read about.  Below are a couple of images of my work to get to know me by

.Tiara by Katrina Morris Square Ring by Katrina Morris

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Summer is the time for sweet treats, whether eating them or stitching them. This collection of patterns is full of designs that are good enough to eat. Almost. 

This year of ice creams from Simone Balman Art is lots of fun, and you could also stitch up these treats individually if you’d rather. The full piece is 210 by 300 stitches, though it’s not full coverage. It uses 25 colors and comes out to 13.6 by 20.1 inches, or 34.5 by 51.2 cm, as shown on 14 count fabric. 

These mini Popsicles from Mariana Gonclaves ART as super sweet and quick to stitch. These would also be a fun border to another summer project. The full design is 43 by 46 stitches, which is 3.1 by 3.3 inches, or 7.8 by 8.3 cm, on 14 count fabric. 

Sam X Stitch has this fun sweet treat sampler, which again would be fun to stitch as individual pieces (maybe on napkins?). In all it calls for 18 colors and measures 153 by 153 stitches. That comes out to 10.93 inches or 27.75 cm on 14 count fabric. 

Another great sampler is this one with ice cream and other sweet treats from Cute Patterns by Maria. At 119 by 132 stitches total, working the full pattern would be about 8.6 by 9.4 inches, or 22 by 24 cm on 14 count fabric, and it uses 33 colors. You can also stitch individual designs, which range in height from 35 to 45 stitches, and in width from 11 to 28. 

This collection of four sundae patterns from Stichrovia would be fun to make for a kitchen or a teen’s room. Each pattern is around 40 by 50 stitches, so they should fit in a four or five inch hoop if worked on 14 count fabric. 

Or stitch up one of the treats from Stitch Chart Studio‘s collection of seven ice cream cross stitch patterns. These range in size and in number of colors needed, but most would fit in a five or six in hoop (and one in a four inch hoop).