Super Collaboration! – Craft Gossip

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I saw this post in the Fire Diva’s blog and had to help spread the word. First off, the Fire Diva’s blog is a great place to get info about what some of the lampwork world is up to. Cool new beads everyday…check it out. And today’s piece is outstanding! It’s a collaboration between Melissa Vess of MelissaBeads and Daniel of CatherinetteRings. Such a cool bracelet and an excellent combination of the glass beads and the amazing wireworking. I love to see artists working together. This is something they do occasionally. Check out another piece of their work here…

These two are etsy artists. I too sell on etsy and as I may have mentioned I love it. It’s such a great way to get your handmade goodies into the marketplace. Do you etsy? If so, let me know. I’d love to see your store. And are you a glass worker selling on etsy? There’s so many talented glass artists selling there. I want to know that too. I’ll share it with the crafting world. Because they need to know!

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To celebrate back to school season, I wanted to make a fun and useful cross stitch pattern, so I decided on this cross stitch pencil bookmark.

It’s a really easy pattern even though it calls for six colors. You definitely don’t have to use all the colors if you don’t want to, and you can use different colors to make a colored pencil instead of the traditional yellow one.

These sorts of projects always end up taking longer than I imagined they would in my head, because I just don’t stop to do the math of exactly how many stitches are in a piece that’s 23 stitches by 74 rows (1,702, though not every single one of them is covered, most of them are).

But because the coloring of the chart is so straightforward, I’d say it also doesn’t take as long as 1,700 stitches sounds, if that makes sense. Because you barely have to count anything and could make most of it without consulting the chart, you can get into a groove pretty easily and stitch whole sections in a single sitting. I had a lot of fun stitching this one and I think you will, too.

Once the stitching is done, take a piece of felt and sew it to the back to hide the mess you’ve made and make it a nice smooth bookmark that’s easy to use in whatever book you might be reading.

This is a fun one to make for yourself or a kid in your life who is going back to school. But it would also be a fun teacher appreciation gift or holiday gift, especially for an English teacher but really anyone would like this one I think.

You can grab the free chart and get all the instructions for assembling your own cross stitch pencil bookmark over at Our Daily Craft.

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