Free floral hand embroidery pattern Choose Kindness It’s A Lively Hope Stitching Club day! Today I’m sharing a beautiful floral design, with a phrase I’ve been repeating to my kids (and myself) a lot lately. Choose Kindness. This is a common refrain in our home. My kids are strong-willed and short tempered (wonder where they […]
How to do hand embroidery Chain Stitch video tutorial. Hey there! Today I’m dropping in with a quick explanation of how to do Chain Stitch in your hand embroidery projects. Chain Stitch creates a stunning, raised effect and is perfect for drawing your eye to certain words in a lettering piece. In the piece shown, I used Split Stitch for […]
Hello there! Today we’re continuing on in my series of hand embroidery stitch tutorials. I’ll show you how to do Split Stitch in the video below. I use split stitch often in my embroidery pieces. It’s a great way to get a nice smooth line, so I use it often for lettering, for outlines and for detail […]
Simple, easy beginner knitting project. A colorful afghan made from all your stash yarn. This blanket is a fun, simple pattern to use up all your leftover yarn bits. If you’re anything like me, you have a lot of yarn odd and ends hanging around. (Like, a lot) They could be left over from different projects, or gifts from people […]
Easy and useful crochet project! These crochet pot holders (or hot pads) are a quick and easy crochet project that will come in so handy for years to come! They are double thickness, so they stand up to heat and to wear and tear really well. We use these multiple times a day in our home and love them. The […]
I am participating in The 100 Day Project again this year. The basic idea of the project is that you choose one creative thing to do every day for 100 consecutive days. This time around I’ll be working on embroidery for 100 days. I have so many ideas for patterns (many of them from my sketchbooks) and I’m excited to […]
I’m super excited to share this free hand embroidery pattern with you today! (Get it?! HAND? I crack myself up.) Supplies: 8″ embroidery hoop (or size of your choice) Black Pearl Cotton Embroidery Needle Linen Fabric Pattern (download for free by click ADD TO CART below) Instructions: Transfer the pattern onto your fabric. I use a light box (similar to this one, except […]
Do you have an artist or maker in your life? You’d like to buy them a gift, but don’t really know what they’d like? Here’s a list of my tried and true suggestions. These are things I use day in and day out and I absolutely love them. I wouldn’t recommend them, otherwise. Membership to an instructive Class/ Website: My […]
Remember the beautiful Sky Blanket that I began in January this year? Somehow I completely dropped the ball on that project. I wasn’t working on it every day, just listing on a page in my bullet journal what the weather was like each day, and then when I was in between projects I’d pick it up and play catch-up. When […]
I’m not sure if it’s because Spring has finally arrived (we’re ignoring the snowstorm that occurred at the end of last week) or if something is in the air, but I’ve got a serious case of Startitis. The definition, for those who don’t know: Startitis– the condition of wanting to start all sorts of projects, but not before finishing others. It’s […]