It's time for October's Dollar Store Design Squad challenge and this month we all were challenged to create a fall or halloween theme craft with supplies from the dollar store.
My entry this month involves cross stitch and embroidery, of course!
Showing posts with label Cross stitch. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cross stitch. Show all posts
Gift Idea for Embroidery & Cross Stitch Lovers
Have a friend or family member that really loves fiber arts, or more specifically embroidery and cross stitch? Well, today I have the ultimate gift guide for those people.
These are all products I use and recommend, in various price points. Almost all these items are available on Amazon, which makes shopping a breeze.
15 Modern Fall Cross Stitch Patterns
I know cross stitchers never really need an excuse to find new patterns, but IF they did, than the beautiful changes of seasons would be the perfect one! With fall right on the horizon, pumpkin spice lattes are showing up everywhere and I’m feeling really excited about sweater and get-to-skip-shaving-my-legs season!
So what better way to celebrate than gathering up 15 beautiful fall inspired cross stitch pieces. None of these are the traditional farmhouse scene with pumpkins and leaves, but are more modern takes on the Autumn season. Grab your embroidery hoop and some Aida and get started on one of them right now!
How to Prevent Hoop Stains with an Embroidery Grime Guard
These marks, usually left in the shape of a circle due to the hoop are often permanent.
Best Sarcastic Holiday Cross Stitch Patterns
The Holidays are right around the corner, and for many people it is a stressful and anxiety laden time of year.
Relieve a little of that holiday stress by focusing on stabbing some Aida over and over again, with some holiday cross stitch. I’ve collected a few of my favorite sarcastic Christmas cross stitch patterns, all found on Etsy. Some of these are sarcastic yet rated G, while a few others are definitely not for the faint of heart, but they should all make you giggle.
Pasta La Vista Baby! It's National Pasta Day
There are few things I like as much as cross stitch these days, but eating Pasta is one of them. That is why I was so fired up to work on my latest piece, celebrating my favorite holiday: National Pasta Day.
I’m partnering with Olive Garden, hands down the best place to celebrate National Pasta day! My family loves the Olive Garden. My husband always tries to beat the never ending pasta bowl (not possible) while my kids are bread stitch aficionados. I am ALL ABOUT the soup and salad.
Penne for your thoughts? How are YOU celebrating #NationalPastaDay?
I’m partnering with Olive Garden, hands down the best place to celebrate National Pasta day! My family loves the Olive Garden. My husband always tries to beat the never ending pasta bowl (not possible) while my kids are bread stitch aficionados. I am ALL ABOUT the soup and salad.
15 Witchy Cross Stitch Patterns
I love that witches can be scary and creepy or they can be funny and cutesy. Witches are the perfect motif for Halloween. Check out these 15 counted cross stitch patterns all based on witches.. great for Halloween or all year long!
How to Transfer Embroidery Designs with A Cricut
By now I’m sure you know a Cricut machine is good for personalizing things, from furniture and cups to shirts and tote bags. You also know it is great for paper crafts and home decor. In fact, this month’s Craft and Create challenge is filled with a huge assortment of home decor ideas for the Cricut:
But did you know you Cricut can be handy in the world of HAND EMBROIDERY? Oh yes.. It is like there aren’t many crafts that a Cricut can’t crack. Check out my recent embroidery project, all done with the help of my Cricut Maker!
Hilarious Shark Week Crafts
I don't remember Shark Week as a kid, but in recent years it has taken on a life of its own. With the meteoric rise in Shark Week's popularity, came a huge increase in the number of shark related crafts making the rounds.
And sure, cute little shark cake toppers and tee shirts are nice, but I wanted to find shark crafts that made me laugh.. and this collection was born.
More than 15 hilarious craft ideas, from crochet to cross stitch. HTV ideas along with pet costumes and even some unmentionables.. If you love it when your heart races whenever you hear that Jaws music, you are going to love these!
10 Amazing Handmaid's Tale Cross Stitch Patterns
If you haven’t seen the amazing Emmy award winning series The Handmaid’s Tale on Hulu, you are missing out. I discovered the series last year (during Season One) and even my cheap ass paid the $9 per month to watch season two. It is beautifully produced and the storylines are heart breaking and rage inducing all at the same time.
The plot revolves around a dystopian future after a second American Civil war where most women are infertile. A patriarchal totalitarian government has forced the remaining women into child-bearing servitude as “handmaids.”
If you have never watched an episode, it sounds bizarre, but the flashback progression on how this society has developed is disturbingly familiar and eerily foreshadowing.
The show has become like a siren’s song to the feminist crafting community and so many amazing projects have come out of it.
The plot revolves around a dystopian future after a second American Civil war where most women are infertile. A patriarchal totalitarian government has forced the remaining women into child-bearing servitude as “handmaids.”
If you have never watched an episode, it sounds bizarre, but the flashback progression on how this society has developed is disturbingly familiar and eerily foreshadowing.
The show has become like a siren’s song to the feminist crafting community and so many amazing projects have come out of it.
Since I love cross stitch, here are 10 of the most amazing patterns I could find.
Under his eye..
Under his eye..
The Best Sarcastic Father's Day Cross Stitch Designs
Father’s Day is right around the corner, but there is still time to whip up a lovely hand crafted gift. Why not cross stitch?
Sure you could go the “I love you dad” cheesy route, and nobody would judge you if you do.. but if your dad has a great sense of humor, one of these sarcastic designs may be perfect. 10 Sarcastic Father’s Day Cross Stitch Ideas:
Candy is Dandy But Liquor Is Quicker Cross Stitched Candy Jar
Have you ever walked through a store and have something catch your eye, but you just aren't exactly sure what you need it for? It happens to me ALL.THE.TIME. That may be why I have a garage and craft room filled with supplies that would be cool to do something with.. if I just knew what.
How to Embroider or Cross Stitch Plywood
It is no secret I’ll fallen into the cross stitch rabbit hole lately. I mean, I even launched my own cross stitch and embroidery shop to share all my latest cross stitch and embroidery patterns and kits. But that doesn’t mean I want to put down the power tools!
Instead I figured out a way to combine my two loves. A little plywood and some power tools along with the joy of stabbing something over and over. Embroidered Plywood:
I have seen people embroidery peg board, and in fact, I even had a painted faux version of that technique:
But I didn’t like how large the stitches had to be, plus the scale of a any finished project would take up a whole wall. I wanted to create my own switchable surface.
How to cross stitch plywood:
"Things I'm Not" Cross Stitch Sampler
I have a new sarcastic cross stitch sampler pattern available in my series of snarky cross stitch designs. I know these aren’t for everyone, but I’ve been enjoying venting out my aggressions onto Aida.
This was a meme I saw on Facebook and I decided to put it down in fiber. Some days I just get tired of being nice.. and this really resonated with me.
I started the pattern a few weeks ago, but I don’t stitch very quickly so even small designs like this one take me a while.
Shut Your Piehole Cross Stitch Pattern
I recently found this little cross stitch pattern at the craft store and I immediately knew I could “snarkify” it. I mean, as much as I love the sweetie pie sentiment, it was a little too cutesy for me.
'I Need My Emotional Support Wine' Cross Stitch Pattern
I recently jumped back into cross stitch since I have found it to be a great outlet to get some your sarcasm out.
There are a lot of hilarious and sarcastic patterns available out there, and I wanted to design some of my own.
How to Update and ReStitch Cross Stitch Samplers
I learned to cross stitch when I was a kid. My mom taught me the relatively simple craft and I created some simple samplers featuring Care Bears and Precious Moments dolls. Yeah.. You can tell I was a girl in the 80s. I did evolve to do more complicated pieces, but eventually I lost steam when it came to cross stitch. It just took too dang long to make anything.
20 Sarcastic Cross Stitch Patterns (PG, PG-13 and R Rated)
I have been having great time sharing sarcastic and snarky crafts on my Facebook page and some of my favorites have been simple cross stitch patterns.
In order to keep track of all that sarcasm, I put together a list of my favorites, along with links to wear you can buy the patterns. (Some are not actually available for purchase.. but most are.) I have sorted them by JUST HOW OFFENSIVE they probably are. So if you don’t like swear words or other risqué topics, I wouldn’t scroll down!
However, if you have a smart ass sense of humor like I do, I bet you get at least ONE good chuckle from one of these! Check them out!
If you are looking for less offensive embroidery ideas, you may like these projects instead.
Turn Kids Artwork into Embroidery Designs
I love encouraging my kids to be creative and make things, which is one of the reasons I have the kids’ artwork gallery wall, to display all their fun artwork.
I recently took the free embroidery class on Craftsy and I wanted to try my hand at a quick project, but instead of using some stock embroidery pattern, I thought it would be fun to use my kids’ artwork.
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