120 Celebration Cross Stitch Cards


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This text contains over 120 cross stitch greetings card and tag designs to mark any occasion. Ideas and instructions are provided for mounting your work into cards, and even for decorating the card mount to ensure a special and polished finish.




Quick to Stitch Cross Stitch Cards


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Hand-Stitched Greeting Cards for all Occasions*Create 120 colorful cards for family and friends*Quick, easy and lots of fun to stitch!Four leading cross stitch designers--Claire Crompton, Joan Elliot, Joanne Sanderson and Lesley Teare--have compiled a lively array of 120 cards and tags that can be stitched for any occasion, from welcoming a new baby to celebrating a silver wedding anniversary. An inspirational mix of styles ensures designs to suit everyone, from traditional to quirky, and everything in between. Each of the 40 occasions offers a choice of designs--quick, quicker or quickest--depending how much time the reader has. Every design features clear, easy-to-follow instructions, and a handy quick-start section will help readers create mini-masterpieces in no time flat!




Cross-Stitch Like a Queen


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Get stitching with this first-of-its-kind collection of creative and colorful patterns inspired by drag queens, pride, and the LGBTQ+ community! Cross-Stitch Like a Queen is a celebration of drag and queer culture, perfect for queens, kings, and everybody in between. Crafty queens and drag enthusiasts alike will love this book with twenty-five illustrated designs ranging from sexy pumps to iconic quotes. Plus, with an alphabet template and extra design elements, you can make your own custom cross-stitch patterns and personalized quotes. Patterns include: Nails, wig, and lipstick Crown and gown Disco ball “Not today, Satan" “Don't get bitter, just get better" Pride flag And much more! This is not your grandma’s embroidery book! Perfect for fans of RuPaul’s Drag Race, members of the LGBTQ+ community, and allies, this craft book is a celebration of the mantra “love is love.” Go forth and stitch!




Celebration Cross Stitch


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Cross Stitch Celebrations: Graduation


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With Cross Stitch Celebrations: Graduation, learn to create personalized graduation announcements, congratulations, and additional keepsakes for education-related accomplishments. Whether you are an absolute beginner in cross stitch or a seasoned pro, Cross Stitch Celebrations: Graduation shows you how to create highly giftable personalized keepsakes for the accomplished students in your life. This step-by-step guide includes all of the basic instruction you need to learn the art of cross stitch. Following a brief introduction to tools and materials and an overview of basic cross stitch techniques, you will be treated to: 30+ charming patterns A range of mix-and-match fonts, border designs, color schemes, and education-themed motifs Techniques on how to compose a DIY design Tips for framing and displaying finished projects The more than 30 patterns include a variety of border designs, alphabets, and color schemes to choose from and combine to make a truly special gift for any educational accomplishment. Just some of the things you can cross stitch are a wall hanging, mortarboard, pennant, and greeting card, complete with a message and themed motifs, such as a trophy, music notes, paint palette, beaker, stethoscope, and more. Whether it is for a graduation, winning a spelling bee, or the first day of kindergarten, you can create the perfect personalized gift for every student in your life. Whether you are new to cross stitch or already skilled in the craft, the Cross Stitch Celebrations series teaches you how to create personalized pieces that celebrate life’s major milestones. Including all of the basics you need to start stitching, and with the ability to mix and match the fonts, border designs, color schemes, and motifs featured inside each book, the possibilities are endless!




Celebrations in Cross-Stitch


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Provides patterns and instructions for special projects for Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day, Passover, Easter, Mother's and Father's Days, and weddings.




Cross Stitch Greeting Cards


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New babies and birthdays; weddings and anniversaries; graduations, bon voyages, and holidays of every type: don't these special moments deserve greeting cards that are personalized works of art? With your cross-stitch skills and these patterns, it's easy to make cards that friends and family will treasure forever. Celebrate births with a Toy Sampler or whimsical Stork and Baby. Mark important birthdays, from the first to the 90th. Give best wishes for engagements, new jobs or homes, or a speedy recovery. Other cards cheer in the New Year, Christmas, Easter, and Valentine's Day, and there are bouquets of floral patterns. Plus: borders, details, and alphabets for designing your own, and instructions on stitching and mounting the cards. 112 pages (all in color), 9 x 9 1/2.




Cross Stitch Cards 100


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Presents a collection of 100 cross stitch card designs to celebrate various occasions, from christenings and Christmas to Mother's Day and moving home. This work features chapters that showcase eight stitched themed cards, each with stitching instructions, a range of inspirational embellishment ideas and colour charts.




Cross Stitch Greeting Cards


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Never before have so many loved and respected cross stitch designers, including Sue Cook, Sam Hawkins and Helen Philipps, worked together to bring readers such a unique and imaginative collection of charming and original card designs. This collection of more than 130 cross stitch greetings to celebrate all of life's special occasions features: * 50 different occasions in six themed chapters * Contributions from 10 of the world's best-loved cross stitch designers * Designs for circular, square, rectangular and shaped card mounts, as well as gift tag and place name cards Furthermore, each designer brings to the collection his or her own special skill, and with 50 different occasions covered, including birthdays, weddings, Hanukkah, Easter, Mother's & Father's Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and more, this book is sure to become a favorite.




Creepy Cross-Stitch


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CROSS-STITCH GOES WITCHY WITH DARK AND ELEGANT DESIGNS From spooky skulls to ghoulish graveyards, Lindsay Swearingen of Tusk and Cardinal gives cross-stitch a dark yet whimsical update. Curious creatures like phantom felines, legendary fixtures from folklore like Baba Yaga and all manner of haunted houses make the perfect subjects for these needlework masterpieces. Fun and easy to learn, cross-stitch is an art form that truly anybody can master. Lindsay gives you a crash course in the basics to ensure you have all the materials and techniques you need to start off on the right foot. Then, dive into her incredible patterns and stitch yourself some oddities that range from quirky to downright eerie. Anyone with an appreciation for the macabre will swoon for patterns like Lovers’ Graves, which features twin headstones and a heart-shaped weeping willow. Meanwhile, the ghosts, ghouls and ghastly bats of Trick or Treat and Haunted Wings are perfect pieces to hang on your wall to keep the spirit of Halloween in your home year-round. With moody tones, muted hues and spooky subjects, this collection of bewitching patterns makes it easy to add a little subversive charm to your cross-stitch repertoire.