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Two massive giveaways

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Just a reminder. We are hosting two really big giveaways worth over $300 each! Make sure you get your entry in.

  • The ShoesofPrey giveaway allows you to create your own pair of shoes with a $200 voucher for first prize winner and two $50 vouchers for runner ups.

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  14. Just want to remind people that this is *NOT* the giveaway post. To enter the giveaways, please click through to the right posts and enter your comments there.

  15. This is my first time at this site and I am sure I will enjoy. I discovered it on Knit 1 for the Road blog site. Looking forward to regular visits. Thank you.

  33. i’d love to win! amy sedaris is coming to our area and i can’t wait to see her and her brother.

  40. How awesome! I wouldn’t mind winning either. 🙂 Who would mind right?! Everything I always see is for paper crafting, which is great but not up my alley. Love the blog keep it up.

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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]