Sylvia of Syku66 Blog has realized an Easter project to decore her home. The Easter Eggs has been realized in cross stitch on linen fabric. The free chart with the orange rabbit is available on her blog.

On the Kaligrilles Blog there is a free cross stitch pattern of a bamboo, an evergreen plant to decore you home. The chart is very easy to do, you can use canvas fabric and give much life to a monochromatic color.

The free pattern of this Easter chicken is available on the Abbygaelle Blog. You can use the Easter chart to decorate your tablecloth.

There are lots of ways to develop your own interior home decor style, in sew4home Blog there is a very interesting tutorial to create an organza flower pillow.

In the Slipcoveryourlife Blog there is a very little free cross stitch pattern with an Orange Moped.

Julia from the Blog 33stitches has created a tutorial to do a colored patchwork ironing board cover.

In the Abyquilt Blog there is a very interesting tutorial to create a quilting pincushion with small squares of fabric.

In Maureens Vintage Acquisitions Blog there is a free hand embroidery design of a peach branch. In the Blog you will find others floral embroidery designs.

Maureen share with you a free wisteria pattern, you can use the design available on her blog. Chain stitch, lazy daisy, and French knots with some beads added, are the only embroidery stitches you’ll need.

On Fairyland Dreams Designs Blog there is an advanced craft tutorial to create paper peppermint twists. The instructions and images will help you to create these christmas decorations.

On Weefolkart Blog there is a tutorial to do christmas balls with colored felt. The craft project is very easy to do, your children can help you to do these christmas ornaments.

In the urbanthreads blog there is a very particular cell phone case. You can try to do it reading the tutorial of this Cell Phone Corset.

Santa Claus is the mythical figure who, in many Western cultures, brings gifts to the homes of the good children during the late evening and overnight hours of Christmas Eve, December or on his Feast Day, December 6 (Saint Nicholas Day).

Here you can find a Santa Claus free cross stitch pattern.  The chart didn’t have a legend with a description of the colors so you can choose the colors you like.

Download Santa Claus Pattern

On Hugsnkisses Blog You can Download the tutorial and the free embroidery pattern to make the Charming Bed Pocket by Cori Blunt.

This romantic rose is available on the Cross Me Not Blog. You can click save picture and print the cross stitch chart.

Tatting is a particular handcrafting technique. This kind of lace is constructed by a series of knots and loops.

In the Crazy Mom Tats Blog it is possible to learn how to use one of her favorite craft tools to simplify the Magic Thread Trick.

Assisi Embroidery is a very charming Italian Embroidery, it’is simple to do and you can create decorative works.

Assisi stitching was named after St. Clare of Assisi, sister of St. Francis, Patron Saint of Needleworkers. It is worked mainly in cross-stitch and it reprenset a form of counted-thread embroidery based on an ancient Italian tradition where the background is filled with embroidery stitches and the main  motifs are left void i.e unstitched.

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Knotted Stitch or French Knot is used for the centres of such flowers as the daisy or wild rose, and sometimes for the anthers of others. It isn’t very easy to be precise on the number of threads in the needle to work a French Knot. It depends on the effect you require and for that you will need to practise the stitch on a spare piece of canvas. I feel it is better to have a small number of strands in the needle and work more loops, for an airier effect.

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