Loretta’s Blackwork House – New Pattern Release

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This month we were looking at houses and keeping our fingers crossed that a mortgage approval would pull through. Unfortunately, the mortgage approval [...]

Lace Heart Wedding Sampler – What I’m Stitching

This is from the Jeanette Crews Designs Leaflet Wedding Memories Leaflet, and the design is called Lace Heart. We have a wedding to go to on April 3rd, so obviously I’m not going to have this done in time for the wedding, don’t know what I was thinking starting to stitch so close to the [...]

The Lady of Spring by Passione Ricamo – Chart of the Week

Passione Ricamo The Lady of Spring is this weeks chart of the week. I figured we would stick our recent spring theme and this came up while I was window shopping for stitchy things over the weekend.
She’s not my usual stitching style personally, but she sure is pretty, almost bride-like in her form and with [...]

Happy Dancing! Blackwork Unicorn Finished Stitching

I actually finished Blackwork Unicorn awhile ago (at the end of February), but we got the evil stomach flu and then I got my new computer and I was having a bit of a hard time getting the camera to play nice with the computer settings. I finally got it all figured out and got [...]

Cross Stitch Used as Illustrative Medium In an Animated Movie Short

All of the set pieces and characters were cross stitched by hand, then scanned into a computer and animated. It’s an amazing little creation and I love that you can see all the stitches in each piece. Definitely an interesting way to combine talents and use cross stitch as an illustrative medium.

Maggie and Mildred [...]

Blackwork Unicorn – What I’m Stitching Update

Not much work on Blackwork Unicorn this week. I twinged something in my back and I just could not get comfortable for the life of me, so I didn’t stitch at all over the weekend. I did get a little bit in during the week here and there, but not much.
The outlining is all [...]

Butterfly Corner – Counted Cross Stitch Pattern

Butterfly Corner Counted Cross Stitch Pattern from Loretta Oliver at Stitching the Night Away
Stitch Count: 126w by 116h
Fabric is any count and any color of your choice.

$1.00 ~ Chart is a PDF download.

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Blackwork Unicorn – What I’m Stitching

I love how fast these blackwork projects from Dragon Dreams come together. I remember that I stitched Blackwork Dragon in just two days. Of course, that was before this stitching turtle syndrome hit me. Now, I’m the slowest stitcher in the world most days.
So, I just started Blackwork Unicorn after much deliberation over the [...]

Friend in Sign Language – Counted Cross Stitch Chart

Friend in Sign Language ~ Counted Cross Stitch Pattern by Loretta Oliver at Stitching the Night Away
Project stitch count: 175w by 50h
All whole stitches, done in black or your choice of floss.
Any count and color of fabric you prefer.

$1.75 ~ Chart is a PDF download.

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Happy Dancing! Finished Fairy Tale Sampler (Dragon Dreams)

Gosh! It’s been so long since I finished something like this that I almost forgot how exciting it was! I’m happy dancing my feet off over here. This is Fairy Tale Sampler by Dragon Dreams, stitched on Silkweaver Reflections ~ Precious Metals 28 count fabric.

I put the last beads on last night while we [...]

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