Here are links to some of my favorite stitching shops, resources, blogs, etc. If you have any other links you feel should be added, please drop me an email by clicking on the envelope icon below my photo in the sidebar on the right.
Shops I Use:
- Needlepoints, Ltd. (my LNS)
- Needlecraft Corner (my favorite ONS)
- Anita’s Little Stitches (great source for beading threads and needles & mesh bags)
- The Attic (awesome newsletter!)
- Elegant Stitch
- Shakespeare’s Peddler
- Stitching Bits & Bobs (great source for mesh project bags)
Hand-Dyed/Painted Fabrics:
- Country Stitch (NZ)
- Crafty Kitten (UK)
- DoveStitch (USA)
- Enchanting Lair (CAN)
- FaeryFire Fabrics (USA)
- Picture This Plus (USA)
- Polstitches (UK)
- Sassy’s Fabbys (USA)
- Silkweaver (USA)
- Sparklies (UK)
- Sunny*Dyes (USA)
Resources:
- Cross Stitch Calculator
- Cross Stitch Design Viewer
- Conversion Charts
- Stitch Dictionary
- Printable Sheets
- Rensel Framing (Jill Rensel’s blog – stunning framing!)
Tutorial Links:
- Finishing Tutorials
- Annette’s Finishing Lessons
- The Twisted Stitcher Tutorials
- Pin Tuck Pillow Tutorial
- Pin Tuck Pillow Calculator
- Christmas Ornament Tutorials (see links in the right-hand sidebar)
- Dyeing Your Own Fabric
Group Blogs/Stitch-a-Longs:
- 2012 TUSAL (Totally Useless Stitch-A-Long)
- 2012 WIPocalypse
- Freebie Gallery
- Stitch a Mirabilia
- Little House Needleworks Ornament SAL
Blogs (listed alphabetically): (special shout-out to my fellow Melissa bloggers!)
- And That’s All I Have to Say about That (Cheryl)
- Annette’s Acre (Annette)
- Black Belt Stitching Wizard (Dani)
- Carolina Stitcher (Faye)
- Coffee Cup Thoughts (Christine)
- The Cross Stitch Corner (Laura)
- Deep Inside Missy (Melissa)
- Doodle-Head Stitches (Melissa)
- Eat Stitch Love (Melissa)
- Erin Expounds (Erin)
- A Fairy Princess Dreams and Stitches (Juls)
- Feather Stitching (Anne)
- FogCity Dweller (Valerie)
- Gathering Place (Darla)
- GoldenAngelsWorks (Dawn)
- It’s Daffycat (Sharon)
- It’s Geek to Me (Heather)
- Jill’s Blog (Jill)
- Just Another Flamingo on the Lawn (Sara)
- Just Another Stitching Blog (Michele)
- Just Carol (Carol)
- Just So You Know (Stasha)
- Karoline’s Corner (Karoline)
- Kathy’s Sit and Stitch (Kathy)
- Life on Gracie View Lane (Cathy)
- Mainely Stitching (Barbara)
- Me, My Bubble and My Stitching (Kalu)
- Measi’s Musings (Melissa)
- Medieval Needle (Melanie)
- Melissa’s Needle Work Blog (Melissa)
- The Mirabilia Stitcher (Tracey)
- Mtrl Girl’s Material World (Christine)
- Musings From a Three Bedroom Ranch (Melissa)
- My Life in Stitches (Melissa)
- Nicole’s Needlework (Nicole)
- No Sampler Left Behind (Cathy)
- Notes from Blue Hen Hollow (Siobhan)
- The Needle’s Promise (Katrina)
- Purple Peacock (Jill)
- Random Ramblings (Joyce)
- Snippets and Stash (Staci)
- Stephanie’s Stitches (Stephanie)
- Stitch Bitch (Anna)
- Stitch Gay Ann Stash (Ann)
- Stitches of Life (Lelia)
- Stitchin’ Addiction (Kirstin)
- Stitching and Other Pleasures (Alison)
- Stitching and Sharing (Karen)
- Stitching Under the Sea (Leslie)
- Suzanne’s Shambles (Suzanne)
- Tale of a Shooting Star (Jenna)
- This is who I am (Terri)
- The Twisted Stitcher (Vonna)
- Thutmosis’s Thoughts (Dana)
- View from an Alternate Dementia (Belinda)
- WhizGidget Wonders (Ann)
- With My Needle (Ann)
- With Needle and Thread (Cathy)
Designer’s Blogs:
- Blackbird Designs (Alma Allen)
- Bush Blog (Shepherd’s Bush)
- Chessie and Me (Linda Lautenschlager)
- Country Cottage Needleworks (Nikki Leeman)
- Crescent Colors (Sharon Crescent)
- GloryBeeStitch (Nancy Boyarsky)
- iStitch (Carol R.)
- Little House Needleworks Blog (Diane Williams)
- Lizzie*Kate Blog (Linda Ebright)
- Needleprint
- Ink Circles: Pens and Needles (Tracy Horner)
- Plain & Fancy Merchant (Sandra Sullivan of Homespun Elegance)
- Plum Street Samplers (Paulette Stewart)
- Samplings from a Blue Ribbon Girl (Belinda Karls-Nace of Blue Ribbon Designs)
- SamSarah Stitchin’ Blog (Patti Connor)
- Shakespeare’s Peddler (Theresa Venette)
- Ship’s Manor (Eric Shipley)
- The Sampler Girl (Tanya Anderson)
- Tree of Life Samplings (Jan Alexander)
- TW’s Needlework Blog (Teresa Wentzler)
- With My Needle (Ellen Chester)
- With Thy Needle & Thread (Brenda Gervais)
