Just a few of the Blogs I check out from time to time:
- Anna's This and That
- Beadlework - needlework and crochet
- Christmas Ornament SAL
- Coral's A Stitchers Life
- Elisabeth's Les loisirs de Behoteguy
- Focus on Finishing - tutorials
- Free Historic Old Patterns & Alphabets
- Little House Ornaments SAL
- Mary Kathryn's Stitching Room
- Mary Louise's Stitchey Stuff
- Milly's Stitching Obsession
- Mylene's Blog
- Nikki's Crossed Stitches
- Northern Needles - by Yukon Viv - cross stitch and amazing gorgeous quilts
- PINWHEEL PONDERS - tutorials for the finish challenged
- Prairie Schooler ABC Stitching Bee
- Teresa Wentzler's Needlework Blog
- The World's Largest Collection of Smalls
- The World's Largest Collection of Smalls Too
- Totally Tutorials - a wide variety of sewing and craft tutorials
- CyberStitchers - "Use this tool to convert multiple floss codes from Bucilla, Dimensions, J & P Coats, Anchor, Sullivans, Candamar, and DMC to any of the others." Handy when you've got a kit and don't like the included floss
- Needlepointers - Four pages of links to all sorts of conversion charts, including DMC, Anchor, Weeks, GAST, Crescent Colors, various silks and wool. If CyberStitchers doesn't have what you need, check here next
Biscornu Links:
Photos
- JASUworld - a variety of different types
- 15-sided - finish looks like a puffy star, also here and here
- Lotus Blossom - variation of 15-sided
- Biscornu Basics - see other links on this site for very informative information and tutorials on other needle work types and designs, including a needlework stitch directory with instructions
- Star Shape Biscornu - easy to understand picture only tutorial; slide-show - pause at any time
- Basic 8-sided Biscornu - fairly large one with Halloween design - list of links to free charts
- Basic 8-sided Biscornu - similar to others
- Biscornu with fabric backing - instructions and photos in .pdf format
- The Gift of Stitching - excellent online digital magazine
- Just Cross Stitch - Ornament Preview and Halloween issues, special Christmas Ornaments issue
- Cross Stitch & Needlework (a BH&G publication)
- Herrschners - back issues of Cross Stitch & Needlework and Stitcher's World
Some of My Boards and Groups:
My Photo Sites: Miscellaneous:
- Finely Finished - a cross stitch finishing service
- Pattern Maker - The Cross Stitch Design Program I use
- PCStitch - Cross stitch Design Program
- DaFont
- EcoFonts - requires registration
- FontSpace
- FontSpring - sites that sell font families have very high quality free sample fonts as well
- Font Squirrel - free fonts for websites and commercial use
- SearchFreeFonts
- Urban Fonts