Needlework crafts

Here are five tools that I believe every stitcher needs and I think you're gonna want to have all of them!! Of course there are oodlles of other tools that you'll want to add to your toolbox but this is a terrific place to start!! Needlework | Needlework for Beginners | Needlepoint Canvases | Needlepoint Tips | Stitches | Stitcher Tools

Thanks to university libraries and dedicated individuals in the United States and around the world, it is possible to find hundreds of free, out-of-copyright needlework and embroidery books and pat…

Little by little I've mentioned in my posts some mistakes that you might be making as a hand embroidery beginner and warned you from some other things that you can do as a rookie. But all of it is scattered around the blog, so I thought it is a high time I make a compilation and gather all of that in one place. So here we go! The list of the most common mistakes as a hand embroidery beginner: 1. Not taking your fabric out of the hoop after stitching session So, let's say, you have an…

Learn how to paint canvas for your needlepoint projects, including how to pick colors and the tools to use—according to an expert.

In this post, I share a few ideas for what you might choose to do with your ORTs.

Natalie Ciccoricco on Instagram

Do you ever make a decision to do something and then wonder, What the heck was I thinking?!? I do that with embroidery projects all the time (if you hadn’t noticed). More to the point, I do it with embroidery deadlines. After all, it’s one thing to say, on a day like January 12th, For ...

Having someone finish your ornaments can get EXPENSIVE. If you’re like me and would prefer to spend your money on stash, it’s best if you learn how to do your own finishing. I’v…

The last two weeks, I’ve been doing a bit of finish work – that is, making the needlework projects that I’ve been working on into specific, finished things. While I was working away, I realized how much I rely on the little tools I’m going to tell you about today, to make finishing much, much ...

1. Because I have always done it this way. Not the most glamorous answer, but a truthful one. 2. They make it easy to take inventory of what floss I already have and what I am running low on. Keep in mind that I own a minimum of 1 floss skein of every single DMC color. And many of my most commonly used colors, I h