Cross stitch on knitting

Have you ever tried to cross stitch on anything other that Aida or Linen? I know a lot of us have used waste cloth to stitch on clothing and such but what about stitching on crochet. I was i…

Learn how to knit duplicate stitch with our step-by-step duplicate stitch tutorial and get a chart for every letter of the alphabet.

Seriously, it's so cool.

Duplicate stitch is a form of embroidery worked on a stockinette fabric. It gets its name because the path of the embroidery yarn exactly follows--duplicates--the path of the underlying knitting. Today's post, first of a series, shows the how-to, as well as a few little tricks to overcome some common problems. Duplicate stitch, part 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS Background Issues How-to starting by self anchoring step by step Direction of work Row-wise Column-wise chaining embroidered chain stitch…

Learn how to knit duplicate stitch with our step-by-step duplicate stitch tutorial and get a chart for every letter of the alphabet.

26 ways to display your finished cross stitch. Try covered buttons, lampshades, bookmarks, frames, bracelets, mason jars and more!

Do you know that feeling when you realise that the project you’ve just finished is too plain, or worse yet, dull and boring? When the design that you imagined to be “fashionably minimalistic” turned out “artless”? I had that feeling when I finished a pair of socks a few weeks ago. Ugh! When something like […]

Choose the best cross stitch needle size for your next project using our simple needle size guide to help you choose the correct needle for your fabric.

Cat Kelly's knitting cake! Inspired by this design: This was the finished cake: I baked two sponge cakes and sandwiched them together with butter cream icing and strawberry jam. Then I carefully carved a little off each side to make the cake oval shaped. I was going to invest in an oval shaped cake tin but the chopping method worked just as well! I covered the cake in blue sugarpaste to start. I then mixed up a big batch of butter cream icing, divided it into two and coloured one green and…

Literary cross stitch and embroidery patterns that will make you drop everything and get your craft on.