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Adapt this Idea to Display Needlepoint

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in Nuts About Needlepoint

One of my great frustrations as a needlepointer is finding frames that are deep enough to display the pieces properly.

Christine of the blog Les petits croix de Christine created this magnificent display for her cross stitch pieces using matboard and fabric.

Not only can you make these plenty deep to display your stitching. You can make them any size you want. Unlike store-boought frames, odd shapes (even a square is an odd shape) aren’t hard to find or more expensive.

And you can make then with any fabric you like.

Visit the blog post from Denise at Craft Gossip to find out more.

Thanks Denise!

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Free PDF of Blackwork Book to Download

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This is going to be a very black and white week, with reviews of Blackwork books the next three days. To start the week off right, I want to let you know about a book available to download free (in four parts).

Ensamplario Atlantico is 40 pages long with 35 pages of plates. It is split into four parts and can be downloaded here.

The book is made available through the blog String or Nothing. They ask that you let them know about things you make with these patterns and that they not be used for commercial purposes.

Thanks to Denise at Craft Gossip for pointing this out.

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Charming Free Patterns from Two Sites

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be stitched heart sampler for cross stitch or needlepoint

be stitched heart sampler


Don’t you just love this hearts sampler? Even though it is intended for Cross Stitch, can’t you just see it on open canvas? I can and keep picturing it in several colors of Kreinik metallics. If you didn’t want to stitch the whole thing, why not make one block on perforated paper and put it on a card as a homemade Valentine for next year. Or make it in cream and gold for a wedding card.

The designer is Be Stitched and the designer is Erynne. She is offering her designs free for non-commercial purposes (i.e. you can’t republish or sell).

Currently there are six patterns, all wonderful, available. A big thank you to Denise at Craft Gossip for pointing Be Stitched out.

color wheel needlepoint pillow from happy threads

Happy Threads design


Click on over to Australia’s Happy Threads needlepoint site for this charming needlepoint color wheel design. I love the bright colors and the rectangular shape is so useful. I’m thinking three of them in a row would be a great bookmark (maybe for Funk & Weber’s Bookmark Challenge?). You can also find instructions for finishing a bookmark at Happy Threads.

While you are there, be sure to check out her wonderful collection of free charts. If you like something print it out. Charlie has announced that each year she will remove many of the previous year’s chart and repackage the best of them into a book for sale in her shop.

It is so nice to find such great free needlepoint design.


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Make a Tassel from Embroidery Floss

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Making tassels is not one of my better things. Much as I love them, mine always turn out badly. But now I have some on-line help with this marvelous tassel making tutorial from Bush Baby Jag. It’s goes through the process step-by-step with clear photographs all along the way.

A shout out to Denise at Craft Gossip for letting me know about it.


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Video Games and Needlepoint

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Sprite Stitch is a completely delightful site working at the intersection of the video gaming world and needlework.

The pixelated graphics of video games are perfectly suited to becoming the basis for needlepoint or cross stitch.

In fact one of their moderators has just posted a list of Sprite Stitch projects, organized by topic. This links to patterns in the forums as well as comments and inquiries about patterns.

It’s a wonderful starting point for exploration.

Thanks to Denise from Craft Gossip for letting me know about this.


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