Armina form the blog Arminas-animals share with all the passionate of art and craft  his love for crochet miniature. She made a little crochet basket with miniature balls of yarn and a mini knit project.

Stamp’n cross stitch is a particular idea to embroider in cross stitch and paint in a same piece of linen. It is very easy and quick to do and it’s an interesting way to express your creativity.

Here are some handmade embroidery works I made in cross stitch, classic embroidery and crochet.

Coatscrafts offers a free cross stitch pattern to create a bat towel with a wonderful roses and daisy border.

On the Themotherhuddle’s Blog there is a very interesting tutorial to create a summer top for you kids. To do this project you can use recycling fabric scraps and flower fabric.

In the Blog Aidaband you can download the free cross stitch pattern with a grape. It is a motif based on an icon from Mini-image-Box.

This cross stitch pattern with orange fruit is available on Arteseriscos’s Blog. You can download it to decorate your kitchen towel.

Do you like embroider cross stitch patterns? Lasmanualidades offers five free patterns with angels to embroidery in cross stitch. You can use these patterns for your kids.

Abbygaelle offers a summer free cross stitch pattern, it is very easy to do. You can use all the colored embroidery threads you prefer and the Aida fabric.

This cross stitch pattern with a flower square is very easy to do. You can use this pattern to decorate kitchen towels, potholder, oven glove or dishrags. Download the pattern.

Use this crochet project to create your pendant 3d heart, you can use different colored yarns. The technique used is Amigurumi and the tutorial is available on Pepika’s Blog.

On the Abbygaelle’s Blog there is a free cross stitch pattern with a red poppy; you can use the pattern to decorate your kitchen linen.

Aemilia Ars is an exquisite needlelace, it was created during the period of Renaissance in Italy. Between the end of the XIX and early XX century, was born a prestigious school of applied art that promoted the upgrading Crafts .

Aemilia Ars Workshop founded in Bologna in 1898 by the Alfonso Rubbiani (1848ò1913) ,  artist, architect, restorer, designer, poet and lawyer in order to recover, distribute and market the arts in Emilia. This initiative was supported by Count Francesco Cavazza, other nobles and in particular by the Countess Lina Cavazza, noblewoman that from her personal collection was made available antique lace for the study and revival of the now lost techniques.

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