It's fun to watch the tabloids catch up with the crafty stuff we've been raving about for ages. Here's a little piece in London's Evening Standard called "Fingers cross-stitched, you might just have found your new creative side" (oh dear) that takes a gander at some fabulous x-stitch talents.
Nice to see the brilliant Mr X Stitch in there, as well as favourites Urban Cross Stitch and Inge Jacobsen's stunning Stitched Magazine Covers. Cross stitch win!
This marvellous bit of tentacled terror in stitching is the hand-embroidered work of Shane York.
Sadly Shane doesn't have an online presence but you can check out more of her makes over on Sew Lovely Embroidery's blog. Stunning stitched stuff.
Ever wondered what if those black and white QR codes could possibly be useful for more than just scanning and sending you to a website? Here's your chance to find out with the tech-crafty QR-3D project.
The project, run by the jane of all crafts Sally Fort, encourages designers, crafters, makers, tinkerers, artists, coders and interested dabblers to use textile to create QR codes to send viewers to interesting places online.
It's a fascinating idea and anyone can take part. Check out the gallery if you're not sure where to start.
Get crafting your code and see where it takes people.
[Image RayR00 on QR-3D Flickr group]
A group of forty South Tyneside crafty artists, aptly named The Materialistics, have created awesome textile renditions of famous works of art.
From Munch's The Scream, Hokusai's Wave, and Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring to Warhol's Marilyn the pieces have been created using knitting, cross stitch and embroidery to amazing effect.
You can see more of the impressive pieces over at The Guardian's craft section.
Up for a crafty challenge? Embroidering on eggs sounds impossible but this how to on Embroidered Eggs from TerraSavvy proves it can be done and is easier than you think.
The tutorial includes advice on which eggs have the thickest shells for less egg-based breakage. Eggshellent craft.
If you knit you tend to be proud of it and want to tell the world. Here's a rather lovely way to do so with Sumptuosity's collection of embroidered knitting badges.
From Knit Happens to the classic I Love Knitting they're all there in fabulous thread and fibre form.
Check out the rest of their hand-embellished gifts too. They're rather lovely.
A picture paints a thousand words and there are some pictures that utterly deserve to be immortalised in thread. Turning your picture into something you can sew can be a little confusing but help is, as always, at hand.
Cut Out and Keep's post on how to Transfer Any Image For Embroidery shows you exactly what needs to be done with easy-to-follow images and a secret weapon to help you along.
The potential for embroidering all kinds of madness is now yours. Go forth and stitch stuff.
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