Loretta’s Blackwork House – New Pattern Release
April 13, 2010 by Loretta
Filed under Cross Stitch, General Crafts, Stitching the Night Away
Thank you for coming back to visit us again! Have you been to our main site, Stitching the Night Away to check out our free cross stitch patterns and cross stitch supplies?
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
March 30, 2010 by Loretta
Filed under Cross Stitch
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
March 29, 2010 by Loretta
Filed under Cross Stitch
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
March 23, 2010 by Loretta
Filed under Cross Stitch, General Crafts
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
March 15, 2010 by Loretta
Filed under Cross Stitch, General Crafts
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
February 16, 2010 by Loretta
Filed under Blackwork, Cross Stitch
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
February 12, 2010 by Loretta
Filed under Cross Stitch, Stitching the Night Away
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.
After PayPal processes your payment you will be redirected to download the PDF pattern file, even if it’s 2:00 in the morning.
If [...]
Blackwork Unicorn – What I’m Stitching
February 9, 2010 by Loretta
Filed under Cross Stitch
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
February 8, 2010 by Loretta
Filed under Cross Stitch, Stitching the Night Away
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)
February 2, 2010 by Loretta
Filed under Cross Stitch, General Crafts
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 [...]







