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.

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 variation of cross stitch embroidery. It is a very charming italian embroidery and simple to do, with this kind of embroidery 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.

The name is derived from the Italian town of Assisi where the modern form of the craft originated. The old Assisi Embroideries of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries are worked on white or slightly cream-tinted linen. A faded blue linen thread is used for the cross stitch background and the outline is in a rust-brown thread.

Stitches are the same but  the principle of design is reversed, as it is the background which is embroidered with crosses and the pattern left plain and in outline, like an intaglio.

This tretment imparts great dignity to the work, and the designs, which are usually heraldic in character, look effective on banners, ecclesiastical or secular, besides forming handsome borders for tea-cloths, bags, etc.

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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. Continue reading…