Are you making crafts for Valentine’s Day?
Did you know that there are lots of free patterns and tutorials for Valentine’s Day crafts, sewing projects and even cross stitch charts in the Tangled Thread archives?  I decided to make things easier for you and have got a bunch of the patterns for you here:
♥ Three patterns for hearts & roses cross stitch.
♥ Try sewing your own lingerie for Valentine’s Day.
♥ Here are two of my easy hand-embroidered felt “Heart Felt” cards.
♥ This is another Heart Felt card – this time it’s accented with French knots.
♥ I made these cute little embroidered …read more

Not every Christmas project you cross-stitch or needlepoint needs to be a big one – in fact, it can be a lot of fun to work on little projects that you can finish in one or two evenings.
I’ve found some fun, free patterns for Christmas cross-stitch and needlepoint.   These projects would make great gifts, labels for special presents or even hung on your tree.  You could use plastic canvas or cross-stitch paper to make stiff ornaments, or use Aida cloth to make Christmas cards.
Just click on the image to view the free pattern:

image: Free Patterns Online

image: Cross-stitch.About.com

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It’s the season for fireworks – in fact, I’m expecting to hear them start any minute now
Do you want to express your creativity with some festive projects?  All of these designs are free and available for download – just click on the links to check them out!
Paper-pieced fireworks motif from Four Twin Sisters:

 image: Four Twin Sisters
Celebrate July cross-stitch pattern from Connie G. Thomas:

 image: About.com Cross-stitch
Festive Fireworks cross-stitch pattern from Rainbow Gallery:

Happy sewing!

The talented crew at Sublime Stitching have just added another product to their catalog:

Clean, unfussy hoop frames.
They’re perfect for displaying embroidery without extra loops or hangers showing at the top.  I think they’d even work for displaying pieces of your favorite fabrics as well.
If you haven’t had a chance to read the Sublime Stitching blog – it’s definitely worth browsing through

It’s been awhile since I’ve posted goodies for my hand-embroidery crowd – so I thought it would be fun to dig up some patterns for Hallowe’en projects.
Here’s a cross-stitch pattern from About.com, designed by Connie Thomas.

This adorable Hallowe’en bookmark was designed by Bev Qualheim

Or if you want to get a little more ambitious, how about this sampler from Whispered by the Wind?

Enough to keep your itchy fingers happy for an evening or two?  Don’t worry, I’m working on some projects for my machine-embroidery ladies too!

How was your long weekend? Did you have a chance to relax outside, maybe have a bbq? Spend some time with friends or family (or even just curl up with a good book)?
Whatever you did, I hope you had a great one!
Ready to play in your studio again?
I thought it would be fun to post a great Canadian site for fabric – after all, I’ve got a lot of readers from all over
The Satin Moon Quilt Shop, in Victoria, British Columbia, has an amazing variety of yummy fabrics, notions, and even things like Shiva Paintstiks, which …read more

I’ve been mooching around the web to find butterflies to embroider on something…
What am I embroidering it on?
You’ll have to stay posted for that
I found some lovely designs out there, both for hand & machine embroidery:

Sarah Bradberry designed this one.
“Embroidery Designs” has a beautiful multi-colored butterfly for embroidery machines.
4-Hobby offers a simple, graphic butterfly for embroidery machines.
And for those of you who cross-stitch, Kreinik has a small & simple (but elegant) pattern.

Enough to keep you busy for the day?

I realized that it’s been awhile since I’ve posted anything for my hand-stitching friends   Did you know that DMC Thread offers some fantastic free patterns?

I’ve got a soft spot for butterfly patterns – and this one is made using cotton floss.

This design is stitched using their spectacular “light effects” floss.
To view all of the free designs, click here  & have fun!

Cross Stitch several of these Irish blessings and put them in coasters for St. Patrick’s day. You can’t go wrong with a pattern that costs $1.49 at e-Patterns Central.
Here’s their description:
Perfect way to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with this Irish design that measures 3″ x 2-3/4″ when stitch on 14-count Aida cloth.

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This site is so cool. It’s called Sew Exciting and when you click on this link you will go to a glossary of stitches.

These are just 3 examples of 150 stitches you can see. They are grouped in a drop down menu by stitch style. Here is the really cool part. If you create a free account (I did – very easy), you can click on the picture and see detailed instruction on how to do the stitch.
I’ll be back at this site a lot. They also have cool needlework kits to buy but …read more