Needleworking Department
Have you ever wanted to learn different types of needlework?
This is the place to learn techniques for crafts such as blackwork, candlewicking, hardanger, redwork and ribbon embroidery, to name a few.
We provide free project ideas, free patterns and free samples on various needlework crafts. In addition, the department offers links to the top cross stitch sites on the Internet as well as cross stitch calculators and floss conversion charts.
Order supplies for your new craft through our online shopping center.
Recent Videos and Tutorials
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Learn how to make a "Love You" key ring with plastic canvas. This is a nice gift idea for Valentine's Day, Mother or Father's Day or as a stocking stuffer.
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How to make a Christmas wreath ornament with plastic canvas
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How to make an Easter basket with plastic canvas for an American Girl doll or 18" doll.
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Learn how to stitch the feather stitch. A hand-embroidery decorative stitch which creates a vine or branch looking line. For both cross stitch or embroidery.
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Learn how to make heart ornaments from felt. This is a fun, cute and simple project even kid's can do.
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How to End Yarn When Working With Plasstic Canvas
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How to make a plastic canvas patchwork keychain or zipper pull
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With this tutorial learn how to hand embroider the woven circle stitch. This is a beautiful, decorative stitch that can be made on any type of fabric.
Book and Magazine Recommendations
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Bernadette BaldelliStitches, techniques and 13 modern blackwork embroidery projects.
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Cloth Paper Scissors covers many types of fiber arts and collage work, including rubber stamping, embroidery and book art.
New Stuff
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Celebrate winter with 7 glistening snowflakes made using white yarn, silver metallic cord and 5- or 7-count plastic canvas.
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Affiliates Link to Annie's
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This cross stitch calculator will come in handy if you wish to find out the finished design size on a certain fabric. Counted embroidery techniques such as cross stitch and blackwork are worked from a chart.
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Needlework Tips & Techniques
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Calculate the correct size of your cross stitch fabric for your project right here on the page. They also have a handy smartphone app version available.
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Stitching the Night Away
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How to make the eyelet embroidery stitch.
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French Knots
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This page has all kinds of printable graph paper with options to print different densities of boxes and many different types: multi-color, circle grid, accented grid, dots, boxes, cross grid, hex box and more.
This page even includes many patterns like hexagonal, knitting grid, triangle, brick, Celtic knot, circles, diamonds, tumbling blocks and more. All are also customizable to your needs!
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Incompetech
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Customize the graph paper to different size paper, different grid spacing per inch, different grid color and more.
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Incompetech
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Kreinik has diagrams for doing three different Rhodes stitch - Rhodes Diamond, Rhodes Octagon, Rhodes Heart.
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Kreinik
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The Rhodes stitch adds texture and a 3-dimensional effect to your needlework. Learn how to make the Rhodes stitch.
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Needlework Tips and Techniques
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Written directions with simple drawing showing how to make the whipped backstitch which is typically worked in contrasting floss colors.
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Annie's Attic
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Drawing and written directions to make the zig zag chain stitch. The chains in this stitch do not do not follow each other in a straight line like the chain stitch, but alternate to give a zig zag pattern.
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Your Choice Needlework