I’m sorry I’ve been a bit slack on sharing all my handmade christmas stories with you all. So just to drag it out even more, I’m going to do it in pieces.
This pillow was a present for Tara made by my partner’s stepmum, otherwise known as Pen Pen. It’s beautifully stitched and it must have [...]
Lately the saying ‘one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter’ has been coming to mind a fair bit. Ignoring the gender stupidity of that statement, I finally got motivated to make something in that vein. Actually I made this a little while ago but haven’t gotten around to posting this until now.
So [...]
OK here’s a pattern for you die-hard bogans. It’s a wee bit of work but if you start with black fabric it would dramatically reduce the amount of work to do and it will look very, very cool.
This came from obsolete on the craftster forums and I think it is so way cool. It [...]
This is the one you’ve all been waiting for! Yip, it’s the next cross stitch kit!
A cross stitch I made of a quote from Bitterstitch.com. I’m considering if I should add something more, like a border or something, but I’m not sure. I’m pretty restless at the moment, so we’ll see if I’ll ever do it or just move on to some of the projects I have in mind…
Hello everyone
I hope those of you who allow christmas into your lives had a wonderful day. I hope those of you who don’t also had a wonderful day celebrating the end of all that annoying music for another year.
We had a super day with lots of great presents including some super handmade presents which [...]
Finally after much fussin around and technological crises and a short swim in the toilet, I finally have a cross stitch kit online!
I’ve got three ready for sale and they made their very successful debut at the Melbourne Craft Mafia Market.
So the first one online is the Water Saving Cross Stitch Kit. When it’s [...]
It’s the latest piece of gold from Cross Yr Stitches. Don’t ya just love it! It’s a Pat Robertson quote. And looks quite beautiful as a cross stitch if you ask me. Not sure how big it is but it would look pretty cool on a jacket I reckon.
Goodness, it keeps [...]
Why did it take me so long to get around to this?
Here’s my favourites from the recent Craftster feminist swap. You can see them all here. You can see my contribution here.
But on to my favourites!
When I design my cross stitches I love to look in old sampler books for inspiration, and I want to share a veritable treasure of samplers I found a while ago: Antique pattern library. Loads and loads of beautiful old patterns, scanned and made into PDF files, free to download! And there’s not only patterns [...]
I know she’s ‘claiming’ not to have anything to do with it. But a big well done to Julie from Subversive Cross Stitch for getting Anne Coulter to promote your work. That’s fucking ace!!!
Howdy everyone, I’ve been a busy bee with elections, a visiting parent and various other excuses. And I’ve been helping organise this market! And it’s gonna be ACE!
For crafty types who don’t dig rose-scented doilies.
Celebrating all that is irreverent, kitchy, delightfully offensive & made lovingly by hand.
Come & indulge in some free wholesome [...]
My latest finished work, one that I’ve been wanting to make for a while: a quotation of the Finland-Swedish poet Edith Södergran. It says “It does not behoove me to make myself smaller than I am.”
(Cross stitch and back stitch, size about 20 x 14 cm.)
And I mean the cross stitch revolution of course. I don’t know what it is about this week but I seem to have stumbled on some cool stuff, and it’s still only Tuesday!
Firstly, this great blog Agoraphobia has this AMAZING cross stitch. Definitely gets a RCS medal of honour!
Goodness time flies when you’re having fun. I moved into this site, thus becoming part of the goonanism mob in August. Today we hit 10,000 unique visitors! Hoorar!
This had quite a lot to do with the appearance of the super easy baby hat tutorial on the Sew, Mama, Sew! Handmade Holidays feature (hi everyone from [...]
I LOVE the local holiday bazaar at the Senior Center. They have no idea of what a craft goldmine they’re sitting on, and I wish someone would do a book about this kind of stuff. I always make a beeline for the booth at the back, where they have these little cross stitch [...]
Here’s a fun one. I made a wee birthday present for a very very dear friend of ours who happens to work for a certain ornathalogical (is that how you spell it?) type organisation.
I sewed the edges up a wee bit wonky, but it adds to the handmade feel of it (that’s my justification).
I [...]
I found cross stitch patterns for this and a couple others of Banksy’s images at Fuldesign.se. I love street art, so these are of course two of my favorite things combined!
/Cross stitch ninja
As previously mentioned I’ve been bitten by the cross stitching on fences bug. So on the way home from Newcastle, I made a wee present for my friend. This is just outside her house so when she goes to work every morning she gets all excited!
And up close…
I like this cause a) it’s [...]
Ever since I started cross stitching I always look at the world searching for square grids. Anything with a square grid can be a cross stitch canvas if you try hard enough.
So of course fences are the obvious ones. Fences have long been canvases, anything from your standard teenage boy territorial tagging through [...]
"I don't regard myself as an artist. I am a craftsman. Fuck art." - Clifford Harper
