These are the 2025 ThreadworX new floss colors, now available in my shop! From left to right, the new additions are 10240 Madame Blueberry, 10358 Chocolate Plum, 10487 Evergreen, 10720 Orange Jubilee , 11158 Lucky Bird, and 11584 Majestic Magenta. First are the deep shades of blueberry in 10240 Madame Blueberry. Then there are the …
These are the 2024 ThreadworX new floss colors, now available in my shop! From left to right, the new additions are 10248 Concord Grapes, 10356 Orange Starfish, 10357 Toffee Brown, 10415 Cajun Spice, 11008 Hawaiian Orchid, and 11085 Vivid Yellow. Up first are the lovely deep shades of royal blues in 10248 Concord Grapes. The …
This Siena geometric cross stitch pattern is now available in my Etsy shop! This pattern is based on a detail on an illuminated musical manuscript. The Duomo in Siena, Italy contains the Piccolomini Library, best known for it’s stunning frescoes depicting scenes from the life of Pope Pius II. Just under the frescoes are illuminated …
These Fuck Cancer cross stitch patterns are now available in my Etsy shop! First up is the French version:“Merde Au Cancer” is actually more of a scatalogical phrase, but that’s the more common equivalent sentiment in many languages. As I don’t know much French, I did a little research on the web and found a Reddit …
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My current project is editing ThreadworX floss sample photos like this beauty here: This is ThreadworX 10585, called Green River and for good reason. It’s a lovely mix of forest, dark grass, and emerald greens. The floss in its skein looks like this: and it’s beautiful! However, floss in a tidy skein doesn’t always represent …
This Fuck Cancer Cross Stitch Pattern in Hebrew is now available in my Etsy shop! A good friend went through pancreatic cancer treatment (successfully!), and while there are a lot of other really nice “fuck cancer” patterns, I wanted something more subtle as our friends have lots of very young grandchildren. My friend is of …
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Whoop! I’m celebrating 1000 patterns sold! My first pattern sale was in December 2011, and it was this fun Rock and Roll pattern and the kick-butt gothic alphabet to customize the name. Last month I celebrated 100,000 skeins of thread sold, and in that post I remarked how getting to that number was unimaginable when …
Whoop! I’m celebrating 100,000 skeins sold! I hit this amazing number in February 2024, and getting here was unimaginable when I started selling floss in 2013. My very first floss sale was in July of 2013 and it was one skein each of DMC 4000, 4066, 4068, and 4129. I had originally envisioned Ancora Crafts …
Here are the six ThreadworX new floss colors released in 2023: From left to right, the colors are 10215 Powder Blue, 10355 Harvest Brown, 10474 Green Moss, 11055 Sunrise, 11218 Red Night, and 11553 Victorian Plum. Up first is a gorgeous mix of light to medium sky blues – 10215 Powder Blue. The closest DMC …
My Mid-Century Modern cross stitch sampler pattern is now available in my Etsy shop! I designed this project as a way to show off the color combinations in some of the ThreadworX Collections I’ve created. These Collections are (with a few exceptions) groups of 10 colors that I’ve put together, available in 20-yard skeins and …