Make-it-yourselfers get special joy out of gift-giving.

While holiday shoppers swarm the stores, some Vermonters know they're giving gifts more valuable than anything bought at a mall. Read Full Story

Fancywork: Learn new needlecrafts with Embroiderers Guild.

Mix needles, beads, embroidery floss and some fairly complicated charts with a group of women who enjoy putting their hands to work and you have a meeting of the Embroiderers' Guild of America Inc.  Read Full Story

Crafts fair features Latin American art.

Creating a project to unite the arts and crafts of Central and South America with a traditional church craft sale was a big undertaking.   But then again, so is the ministry that the sale is raising funds for:   helping meet the needs of recent immigrants in the Springfield area. Read Full Story

A stitch in time - a very long time.

An embroidery of the Huntingdon 800 logo, painstakingly sewn over 400 hours, has been presented to Huntingdon Town Council.   The cross-stitch was created by two members of Stitches Cross-Stitch Club, Mary Morehen and Sue Hayhoe.  Read Full Story

Get informed on the happenings in the cross stitch calendar.  This month read about the EGA, TNNA and INRG.

Hello all,

This month has been crazy for me.  My computer was getting a look through and an upgrade.  I wasn't able to do anything, not even check my emails.   I was going crazy for a moment.  Now everything is back to normal and I've designed two nice charts to share with everyone.  Hope you like it and enjoy it.   On our last poll (what is the best format for charts?) a lot of you like the .pdf better than .pat or any other one.  I don't blame you, is easier and you don't need to have a cross stitch software viewer.  However, I will include both formats (since I already have the .pat format) I'll just add the option to download the patterns with either .pdf or .pat. 

Next year will be different for Beyond Stitch.com.  Please reply to this email and tell me what would you like to see here.  It could be anything or even any other craft.  In the poll forum some of you asked me for plastic canvas.  I'll try my best add this too.  So far I've added a lot of site links with free plastic canvas patterns; and even knitting and crochet in the Beyond Stitch Board.  

   
Enjoy these two new patterns this month.  To check out more free patterns visit our categories page.  Get patterns

The goal of this particular poll is because I want to get freebie links of the choice with the most votes.  I'll added in the links page and in our new forum.

What is the ideal time for you to do your stitching projects?

In the mornings        In the evenings
In the afternoons      Late at night
Other

Vote here.