Sure, you could spin this heart and arrow pin cushion as a Valentine project, but it’s beautifully designed in a way that doesn’t pin (pun intended) it down to just one holiday. Head over to the Purl Bee for the chart and full tutorial. Related: How-To: Cross-Stitched Hand Warmers How-To: Nesting Doll Pin Cushion
When you’re a needlearts person, you can’t look at a material with holes in it without thinking, “Hey … I could stitch on that!” I’ve seen stitching on window screens, and I’ve stitched on peg boards, so I love seeing this front porch sign in progress over on Stitch-Cook-Grow-Love. Lily took metal mesh and stapled […]
A couple of weeks ago, my daughter and I went camping together. The weekend was unusually cold for Texas (sadly, it already feels like spring here) and we had to do some serious bundling up to stay warm. We’d brought along packs of handwarmers, and while they were handy – pun intended – I felt […]
Fans of Portlandia have a new catch phrase from the second season of the show. I mean, “Put a Bird on it” is so 2011, amiright? Now when you hear folks saying, “We can pickle that!” you’ll know you’ve found true Portlandia friends. But why just say it when you can stitch it? The newest […]
Two of my very favorite things, Star Wars and stitchery, come together over on the blog Han Stitched First. Started by Whatever James, it’s a blog that celebrates Star Wars in all forms of needlework. There is even a Star Wars stitch-a-long for 2012. The above “Han Shot First” cross-stitch was created by Katie Kutthroat […]
The Big Bang Theory is one of my favorite television shows, so I was excited to see a fun roundup of BBT crafts over on Geek Crafts recently. One of my favorites of the bunch was this awesome cross-stitched piece based on the famous Rock-Paper-Scissors-Lizard-Spock game that the Sheldon made up on the show, stitched […]
I love when people find inspiration to stitch on everyday objects that weren’t necessarily intended for stitchery. Camilla of Family Chic transformed an inexpensive IKEA pencil cup with some yarn and a tapestry needle. It’s fun to play with different stitches and design, and would be easy to unthread and change out when you get […]
