Jack The Jester Cross-Stitch By By Romona King Of Northbrook Designs

I thought you might all like to know that Romona King of Northbrook Designs has created a wonderful free cross-stitch design for a court jester on her Northbrook Stitches blog.  Have fun with her cross-stitch. 

Jack The Jester

© 2012 by Romona King of Northbrook Designs

If you'd like to download Romona's cross-stitch design please click on the picture above or CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD

Here's what Romona had to say about her cross-stitch design:

Jack the Jester is a doll that I made, and  is the first of a what I hope will be a series of Jester patterns. Included in this design is a picture of the actual Jester face and the completed piece, the stitching chart, the floss colours chart based on DMC colours. The floss chart also includes the floss usage chart which gives you the actual number of stitches made, and the amount of thread you need. I have also added a colour graph for your convenience. 

Please respect Romona's Terms of Use - This design is offered freely, please respect the designers work and give credit where due. You may use the design to create projects to sell but not for mass production. 

Copyright © 2012 - All Rights Reserved — Written By Romona King of Northbrook Designs. Romona is a crafter, doll maker, painter, needlework artist, and mixed media artist. You can visit her Northbrook Designs blog online at http://northbrookdesigns.blogspot.com/ and her Northbrook Stitches blog at http://www.northbrookstitches.blogspot.com/. You can also visit her Northbrook Designs shop at http://www.northbrookdesigns.com/.

A Free Tutorial For Finishing Ornaments By Romona King Of Northbrook Designs

I am always looking for ways to finish my cross-stitch ornaments and creations.  If you are, too then you'll be pleased to know that Romona King of Northbrook Designs has created another wonderful FREE .pdf tutorial on her Northbrook Stitches blog showing you how to finish all her wonderful cross-stitch designs.

A Tutorial for Finishing Ornaments

© 2012 by Romona King of Northbrook Designs

If you'd like to download Romona's tutorial please click on the picture above or CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD

Here's what Romona had to say about her tutorial:  These instructions are generic for any ornaments made from my free cross stitch designs. All you need to do is change the shape of the ornament to suit your needs. My ornament shapes are usually oval, but whatever shape you prefer, you can easily adapt for yours..

Please respect Romona's Terms of Use - This tutorial is offered freely for  your enjoyment.  Please respect the designers work and give credit where due. Thank you, Romona.

Copyright © 2012 - All Rights Reserved — Written By Romona King of Northbrook Designs. Romona is a crafter, doll maker, painter, needlework artist, and mixed media artist. You can visit her Northbrook Designs blog online at http://northbrookdesigns.blogspot.com/ and her Northbrook Stitches blog at http://www.northbrookstitches.blogspot.com/. You can also visit her Northbrook Designs shop at http://www.northbrookdesigns.com/.

18th Century Scissor Shoe Fobs Cross-Stitch Free Tutorial By Romona King Of Northbrook Designs

I just LOVE cross-stitch and LOVE shoes so you can imagine how delighted I was to see that Romona King of Northbrook Designs had created 3 wonderful free cross-stitch designs on her Northbrook Stitches blog for creating 18th century scissor shoe fobs.  I am definitely going to be creating some of these.

18th Century Scissor Shoe Fobs

© 2012 by Romona King of Northbrook Designs

If you'd like to download Romona's cross-stitch designs and tutorial please click on the picture above or CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD

Here's what Romona had to say about her cross-stitch designs and tutorial:  Shoe Fobs came about as a result of my friend Colleen asking if I would like to be a guest blogger on her site. Because I had just recently gone back in time a little to return to my needlework days, she wondered if I could come up with something to celebrate her Historical theme for March 2012. I decided these were simple and quick to do and in keeping with my Marie Antoinette obsession. I have tried to use as few colours as possible because I tend to get carried away with details, so I have restrained myself for these fobs.

These are very small, they fit onto a 1 1/4 th  metal button cover. I have written a tutorial below to show you how to put these little charmers together. They make wonderful decoration and identifiers for your scissors and we all know how special our scissors are to us. They are fast to do and you can make them to fit larger or smaller button covers by simply changing your fabric count therefore making them for your different sizes of scissors.

Please respect Romona's Terms of Use - This design is offered freely, please respect the designers work and give credit where due. You may use the design to create projects to sell but not for mass production.

Copyright © 2012 - All Rights Reserved — Written By Romona King of Northbrook Designs. Romona is a crafter, doll maker, painter, needlework artist, and mixed media artist. You can visit her Northbrook Designs blog online at http://northbrookdesigns.blogspot.com/ and her Northbrook Stitches blog at http://www.northbrookstitches.blogspot.com/. You can also visit her Northbrook Designs shop at http://www.northbrookdesigns.com/.

Bethany Cross-Stitch Free Design By Romona King Of Northbrook Designs

If you LOVE cross-stitch like I do you'll be happy to know that Romona King has a wonderful free cross-stitch design on her Northbrook Stitches blog based upon her beautiful Bethany doll.  Enjoy!  I know that I will.

Bethany

© 2012 by Romona King of Northbrook Designs

If you'd like to download Romona's cross-stitch design please click on the picture above or CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD

Here's what Romona had to say about her cross-stitch design:  These instructions are generic for any ornaments made from my free cross stitch designs. All you need to do is change the shape of the ornament to suit your needs. My ornament shapes are usually oval, but whatever shape you prefer, you can easily adapt for yours.

Please respect Romona's Terms of Use - This design is offered freely, please respect the designers work and give credit where due. You may use the design to create projects to sell but not for mass production.

Copyright © 2012 - All Rights Reserved — Written By Romona King of Northbrook Designs. Romona is a crafter, doll maker, painter, needlework artist, and mixed media artist. You can visit her Northbrook Designs blog online at http://northbrookdesigns.blogspot.com/ and her Northbrook Stitches blog at http://www.northbrookstitches.blogspot.com/. You can also visit her Northbrook Designs shop at http://www.northbrookdesigns.com/.

Coffee Filter Album - Free Tutorial by Romona King of Northbrook Designs

I thought you might all like to know that Romona King of Northbrook Designs has created another wonderful  tutorial on her Northbrook Designs blog showing you how to create a coffee filter album.

Coffee Filter Album
© 2011 by Romona King of Northbrook Designs

If you'd like to download Romona's tutorial please click on the picture above or CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD

Here's what Romona had to say about her tutorial:

This tutorial is yours to get inspired with. Please use it to create your own creative album and all I ask is that you tell others where you got this to give me credit for my efforts.

My thanks to Meeri who first showed me what a coffee filter album is.

Before starting, you may just want to read this on your computer rather than print it. Throughout the tutorial I used a lot of colour illustrations from my own album and that will take a fair bit of ink to print.

To make these albums, you don’t need to been overly artistic or have a big set of skills, but what you do need is the desire to open up your creative mind and let your muse help you. A lot of time we get caught up in thinking we can’t make something like another person or do it as well or any number of thoughts. Remember, everyone starts at the beginning as well and just did what we all have to do to improve our abilities. Practice, experiment, and repeat many times.

Enjoy the process of making your album and try not to get too hung up on details. Let go of the rules you think exist about what is supposed to match with what, IE: does this lace look right, what about these pictures or colours. Forget that, just relax and play. That’s what kids do, don’t take yourself too seriously. The only thing to decide on before you start is, do you want this album to have a theme. If so you will have to collect your papers etc. based on that theme.

Please respect Romona's Terms of Use - Feel free to share this tutorial, but please remember to give me credit for the information contained here.

Copyright © 2011 - All Rights Reserved — Written By Romona King of Northbrook Designs. Romona is a crafter, doll maker, painter, needlework artist, and mixed media artist. You can visit her Northbrook Designs blog online at http://northbrookdesigns.blogspot.com/. You can also visit her Northbrook Designs shop at http://www.northbrookdesigns.com/.

Handmade With Love - Gift Ideas For The Holidays - Ideas #46, #47, #48, #49 and #50

If you support handmade and love to give gifts from the heart then you're going to love our "Handmade With Love - Gift Ideas For The Holidays" series of posts.

The handmade ideas are taken from all the wonderful free Christmas articles, e-patterns, tutorials, graphics, stitcheries, craft projects and more that The Best Free Craft Articles blog contributors have to offer.

Here's ideas #46, #47, #48, #49 and #50:


Idea #46 - purse size mini wrap padfolio makes an excellent holiday gift?



Purse Sized Mini Padfolio - Mini Wrapfolio
Copyright © 2008-2009 - All Rights Reserved - Written By SueBleiweiss

Idea #47 - A magnetic wrist pincushion is an excellent gift for a seamstress, crafter, quilter, needleworker - anyone who uses sewing pins.

Magnetic Wrist Pincushion© 2011 by Romona King of Northbrook Designs

Idea #48 - Who can resist a patchwork quilt stitched with love?

Orphan Blocks Quilt
Copyright © 2008-2010 - All Rights Reserved - Written by Sylvia of Pieces From My Scrapbag

Idea #49 - Who could resist a beautiful ribbon doll design?



Ribbon Doll Tutorial
Copyright © 2009- All Rights Reserved - Written By Maureen Greeson of Maureen's Vintage Acquisitions.

Idea #50 - A granny square throw makes a wonderful gift and family heirloom.



Granny Square Throw
Copyright © 2009 - All Rights Reserved - Written by Carina Envoldsen-Harris of Carina's Craftblog blog.


Please respect each artist or crafters Terms Of Use for their free article.

I hope you are inspired to create handmade gifts of your own for the holidays.

Stay tuned for Ideas  #51, #52, #53, #54 and #55.

Vintage Embroidery Designs Free E-Book by Maureen Greeson of Maureen's Vintage Acquisitions

If you LOVE vintage embroidery designs and want to try embroidering some then you'll be happy to see that Maureen Greeson has a wonderful e-book on her Maureen's Vintage Acquisitions blog containing some beautiful embroidery designs.  One of them is shown below.

Vintage Embroidery Designs Booklet

Copyright © 2010 - All Rights Reserved - Written By Maureen Greeson of Maureen's Vintage Acquisitions.

Here's what Maureen had to say about her tutorial:  This 13 page copy of a vintage embroidery design catalog has been on my computer for so long I can't remember where I got it.  Being that it's in the public domain, I thought I'd share it with you.  There are designs here that will work well on crazy quilting projects as well as other items.  Enlarge or reduce as you like.  Aren't computers grand!!  If you happen to work one up, I would love to share it with everyone.  Don't hesitate to send a scan for me. Here is an example of the designs you'll find in the booklet. Be patient, it is a large file.

Please respect Maureen's TERMS OF USE:  I am more than happy to share my ideas, tutorials and e-patterns with you. You can use them to make projects for yourself, friends or family. Do not use my ideas, tutorials or e-patterns to mass-produce items for sale. If you post your work online, please credit me (Maureen Greeson) with the design and link to my Maureen's Vintage Acquisitions website @ http://www.maureensvintageacquisitions.com/.

Copyright © 2009-2010 - All Rights Reserved - Maureen Greeson of Maureen's Vintage Acquisitions. Maureen is a creative embroiderer, porcelain doll maker, and crazy quilter extraordinaire.

Please visit her Maureen's Vintage Acquisitions website @ http://www.maureensvintageacquisitions.com/ and her Maureen's Vintage Acquisitions blog @ http://www.maureensvintageacquisitions.blogspot.com//. Also, if you'd like to see some of Maureen's amazing creations please visit her Portfolio of Crazy Quilting Projects website.

Ribbon Doll Free Tutorial and E-Pattern by Maureen Greeson of Maureen's Vintage Acquisitions

If you don't know by now I just LOVE Victorian dolls and anything Victorian.  So, I was  thrilled to see that Maureen Greeson had a wonderful how-to on her Maureen's Vintage Acquisitions blog showing you how to make a beautiful ribbon doll. I am definitely going to make one. 

Ribbon Doll Tutorial

Copyright © 2009- All Rights Reserved - Written By Maureen Greeson of Maureen's Vintage Acquisitions.

Here's what Maureen had to say about her tutorial:  She's finished and I hope you will take advantage of the free instructions I am providing (see link below.) These include a full size pattern that you can print. For those of you who want the doll available to you in kit form, please visit my website (see link below.)

Please respect Maureen's TERMS OF USE:  I am more than happy to share my ideas, tutorials and e-patterns with you. You can use them to make projects for yourself, friends or family. Do not use my ideas, tutorials or e-patterns to mass-produce items for sale. If you post your work online, please credit me (Maureen Greeson) with the design and link to my Maureen's Vintage Acquisitions website @ http://www.maureensvintageacquisitions.com/.

Copyright © 2009-2010 - All Rights Reserved - Maureen Greeson of Maureen's Vintage Acquisitions. Maureen is a creative embroiderer, porcelain doll maker, and crazy quilter extraordinaire.

Please visit her Maureen's Vintage Acquisitions website @ http://www.maureensvintageacquisitions.com/ and her Maureen's Vintage Acquisitions blog @ http://www.maureensvintageacquisitions.blogspot.com//. Also, if you'd like to see some of Maureen's amazing creations please visit her Portfolio of Crazy Quilting Projects website.

Feather Fan and Victorian Fan Free E-Patterns by Maureen Greeson of Maureen's Vintage Acquisitions

Have you ever wondered how to make the beautiful creative embroidery fans that you see on many crazy quilters creations?  If you have then you'll be happy to know that Maureen Greeson has a wonderful how-to on her Maureen's Vintage Acquisitions blog showing you how to make a feather fan and a Victorian fan. 

Feather Fan

Copyright © 2010- All Rights Reserved - Written By Maureen Greeson of Maureen's Vintage Acquisitions.

Victorian Fan

Copyright © 2010- All Rights Reserved - Written By Maureen Greeson of Maureen's Vintage Acquisitions.

Please respect Maureen's TERMS OF USE:  I am more than happy to share my ideas, tutorials and e-patterns with you. You can use them to make projects for yourself, friends or family. Do not use my ideas, tutorials or e-patterns to mass-produce items for sale. If you post your work online, please credit me (Maureen Greeson) with the design and link to my Maureen's Vintage Acquisitions website @ http://www.maureensvintageacquisitions.com/.

Copyright © 2009-2010 - All Rights Reserved - Maureen Greeson of Maureen's Vintage Acquisitions. Maureen is a creative embroiderer, porcelain doll maker, and crazy quilter extraordinaire.

Please visit her Maureen's Vintage Acquisitions website @ http://www.maureensvintageacquisitions.com/ and her Maureen's Vintage Acquisitions blog @ http://www.maureensvintageacquisitions.blogspot.com//. Also, if you'd like to see some of Maureen's amazing creations please visit her Portfolio of Crazy Quilting Projects website.

Antique Bonnet Pin Cushion Free Tutorial by Maureen Greeson of Maureen's Vintage Acquisitions

If you LOVE creative embroidery, Victorian styles, and pin cushions like I do then you'll be happy to know that Maureen Greeson has a wonderful tutorial on her Maureen's Vintage Acquisitions blog showing you how to make an antique bonnet pin cushion.  Enjoy!

Antique Bonnet Pin Cushion

Copyright © 20010- All Rights Reserved - Written By Maureen Greeson of Maureen's Vintage Acquisitions.

Please respect Maureen's TERMS OF USE:  I am more than happy to share my ideas, tutorials and e-patterns with you. You can use them to make projects for yourself, friends or family. Do not use my ideas, tutorials or e-patterns to mass-produce items for sale. If you post your work online, please credit me (Maureen Greeson) with the design and link to my Maureen's Vintage Acquisitions website @ http://www.maureensvintageacquisitions.com/.


Copyright © 2009-2010 - All Rights Reserved - Maureen Greeson of Maureen's Vintage Acquisitions. Maureen is a creative embroiderer, porcelain doll maker, and crazy quilter extraordinaire.

Please visit her Maureen's Vintage Acquisitions website @ http://www.maureensvintageacquisitions.com/ and her Maureen's Vintage Acquisitions blog @ http://www.maureensvintageacquisitions.blogspot.com//. Also, if you'd like to see some of Maureen's amazing creations please visit her Portfolio of Crazy Quilting Projects website.