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These days the choices for framing your beautiful cross stitch artwork are limitless! Here are some ideas below, which work especially well with small or sampler pieces.

Picture albums often have a small opening on the cover, allowing you to place a picture there. Instead of a picture, slip in your cross stitching masterpiece and pass your photo album around with pride!

Hoop frames are also great to use and come in a variety of shapes (circle, oval, heart, etc). They are easy to decorate by trimming with lace, which adds a personal touch. You can often buy hoop frames with no glass, allowing you to add decorations directly onto the cross stitched piece. One example would be to take a wedding announcement and glue dried or silk flowers to the aida cloth. Add one hoop frame, trimmed with lace, and you have a treasured piece to remember for all times.

Shadow boxes are a great alternative to traditional picture frames. A shadow box is like a picture frame, but has about one inch of space between the glass and the frame. It allows you to put in that something extra, such as mementos or collectibles. It also helps to enhance your cross stitch artwork – for example, if you have cross stitched a scene at the beach, put some seashells or small pieces of stone at the bottom of the shadow box. Even non-cross stitchers will admire your work!

Picture frames still make a great framing option. Plus, it has the added benefit of protecting your hard work from the elements in your house, such as dust and pet hair. Umbra has a great selection of frames – both traditional and unique designs. A unique frame can also save you the work of having to put a mat around a piece. CanÂ’t find a frame you like? Then buy a plain picture frame and decorate it with scrap booking embellishments. These embellishments can be rubbed on, self adhesive, glued on, etc. Want to save a little money? Then glue beads or other decorations onto the frame.

Small or sample patterns are great to sew directly onto a pillow, napkin, tablecloth or as a Christmas decoration. Another great idea for sample patterns is to use them to make drawstring pouches. The beauty of drawstring pouches, is that they can be any size or shape that you need them to be. They make great gifts that are beautiful as well as practical.

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Sublime Stitching $13.01 Elizabeth Taylor, Carrie Fisher, Tracey Ullman, and Laura Dern all own her work. Now, in her much-anticipated first book, embroidery pioneer Jenny Hart brings her sublime designs to everyone. Expanding on the offerings of her Stitch-It Kit, Sublime Stitching offers all the instructions, tips, and hip patterns needed to create hundreds of stylish projects. Perfect for stitchers of all experience levels, this charmingly photographed book includes simple directions and inspiring project ideas for stitching up jeans, handbags, neckties, baby bibs, and more. Best of all are the entirely original, ready-to-use iron-on patterns bound in the back. Jenny has included all sorts of delightful designs from cheeky margaritas and maracas to classic teapots and cupcakes. These patterns are easy to remove after using, and a cinch to store in the handy pockets on the inside covers. Believe it or not, each pattern can be used up to nine times. Now that’s sublime.

Doodle-Stitching $10.58 Sharing the unique style of "doodle-stitching," this embroidery primer is packed with beginning projects made from both patterns and the crafter?s imagination. Projects include All-Seasons Ornaments, Songbird Wristlet, Bohemian Tunic, Flower Shop Skirt, and Sweet Dreams Baby Pillow. With easy-to-follow instructions and full-color photographs.

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Designing, Cutting and Grading Boot and Shoe Patterns, and Complete Manual for the Stitching Room, by an Expert of Thirty Years $20 Publisher: Boston, Press of Superintendent and foreman Publication date: 1899 Subjects: Boots and shoes industry Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.

Sublime Stitching Craft Pad $9.85 A brand-new must-have for the crafter, this handy pad contains 30 pages filled with iron-on embroidery patterns by stitch maven Jenny Hart, author of Sublime Stitching and the Stitch-it Kit. Jenny Hart is an artist, designer, and the founder of Sublime Stitching. She lives in Austin, Texas.

100 Cross Stitch Patterns $15.21 An ideal introduction to the art and craft of cross-stitch, this book presents a bounty of the most popular types of motifs loved by stitchers in an easy-to-use, spiral-bound, split-page format. The majority of the book is the over 100 mix-and-match patterns, organized by type: borders, flowers, alphabets and other simple motifs. These can be endlessly combined to create exactly the effect you want, simply by flipping through the pages! Whether you want to work large or small, create homewares, embellish clothes, or produce works of art, all the patterns easily mix and match. The patterns are presented in chart forms, each with a color key for ease of reference and a finished, worked example to show how the patterns should look when complete. In addition, an introduction to this easy-to-master craft covers all of the tools and equipment needed and demonstrates basic cross stitch techniques from starting to stitch through embellishments to finishing off.

Stitching Beaded Jewelry $13.36 The Absolute Beginners Guide: Stitching Beaded Jewelry is the introduction to bead stitching. This book helps beginners to have a successful start in stitching by answering questions like What are the must-have supplies and tools? and How do I set up my workspace? The projects introduce basic stitches starting with the easiest, such as cross-weave and right-angle weave, and moving into other more challenging techniques. Your confidence and skill set will grow as you work through the book, one project at a time.

Not Your Mama’s Stitching $9.93 A one-of-a-kind contemporary guide to trendy stitching We take stitching where it’ s never been and offer up projects that are absolutely hip and will leave friends and coworkers green with envy. Designs range from the ridiculously simple to the sublimely complex for adorning homes, clothes, and accessories. This is the only resource where readers can learn a variety of stitching crafts that are enjoying a huge resurgence, including embroidery, crewel, punchneedle embroidery, and cross-stitch. Created for savvy crafters who want to skip tedious explanations and get right to cool projects, this book features a fun two-color design, easy-to-follow instructions, variations for customizing items, and a 16-page four-color section with photos of all the projects. Kate Shoup Welsh (Indianapolis, IN), a devoted beader and stitcher, has written or cowritten several books, including Not Your Mama’ s Beading (0-471-97380-7). She has also cowritten and starred in a movie and worked as a sports editor.

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Sublime Stitching Journal (Paperback) $9.93 Sprinkled with embroidery patterns, this journal`s mix of blank, lined, and grid pages give crafters and artists a variety of ways to plan projects and document thoughts.

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Avery Hill ‘Swedish Weaving Patterns for Monk’s Cloth’ Book $15.19 *Cross stitching and needlework is made easy with this book *Craft book by Avery Hill contains 33 patterns for monk's cloth *Book features patterns and designs for Swedish weaving or Huck embroidery *All patterns can be stitched on monk's cloth, Huck toweling, Aida cloth or any other even weave fabric *Each pattern has detailed instructions and a color photograph for each pattern *Also included are helpful hints such as fabric preparation, terms, stitching techniques, color and designs *With these patterns you can make items such as, throw blankets, baby blankets, table runners and place mats *Softcover book with 64 pages

Irish Crochet And How To Make It – Easy Instructions And Patterns For Beginners & Experienced Crocheters Alike! $1.92 To learn the art of Irish Crochet, look no further than this book. Everything you need to know, expert guidance, and easy to follow instructions are found within these pages. …

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