Hi stitchy friends, by now you've probably stitched the March 'A year of Christmas Stitching' free design and are thinking about how to finish it. We've got some simple-to-make finishing ideas that will make your stitching look spectacular! If you haven't got the chart for this design you can grab the free pdf download here. These are just a few ideas/suggestions of things you can make...you can copy what we've made or do your own thing! Remember to share your stitching ideas

Hello stitchy friends! We have our third free chart for this year's 'A Year of Christmas Stitching' series. This series is such fun to work on...plus we have our Christmas stitching well under way already! It feels good to be organized - don't you agree? So with our further ado, here's this month's design.... This simple, quick-to stitch design gives you a stunning ornament finish! Of course, you don't have to make an ornament, you can make anything you want with it! Its a cl

Happy New Year stitchy friends! We hope your holiday season was wonderful, full of love, and stitchy goodies! Here at Tangled Threads And Things HQ, which you know is my living room or sometimes the kitchen table :) we've been busy drinking hot chocolate (Eirinn) and tea (Rhona) whilst eating the most over-priced tin of shortbread ever (but what's Christmas with out a tin of good old shortie?!!!) But, since this is beginning to sound a bit like a food blog, I'll get right bac

Hello dear stitchy friends! Can you believe that it's December already? And that means that this is the last design in our 'A Year of Christmas Stitching' 2021 series of free charts. This year has just flown by, but since we have been stitching all through the year, hopefully there will be no last minute panic stitching for anyone :) December's free chart is the quintessential Christmas foliage....holly! This design is perfect for making so many different things, but since w

Hello stitchy friends! Can you believe that we are almost at the end of our 'A Year of Christmas Stitching'? This year has flown by, but with stitching every month for Christmas we are all certainly well under way with our Christmas stitching. I'm feeling a lot more relaxed about my Christmas stitching this year, not only because I have a big chunk of it done, but also because for the bits I still have to do, I don't have to go searching for charts, as I can easily stitch th

There are certain sayings or phrases that remind you of someone. The one that I have used for the October's 'A Year of Christmas Stitching' design reminds me of my Dad. Every time I complained about having cold hands he would always say this to me.... According to him, having cold hands was a sign that you had a good heart! Most of our 'A Year of Christmas Stitching' designs have been quick-to-stitch designs, but this one is super quick! You can literally have this stitched i

Nothing says Christmas quite like a Nutcracker...except maybe mince pies...or tinsel, but I digress! Nutcrackers are definitely Christmassy (is that even a real word?!!) So for the September design in our 'A Year of Christmas Stitching' series we have a Nutcracker.... Isn't he stunning? So let me tell you about the design. It's a simple stitch...full cross stitch only (no half stitches) back stitch details and some french knots. I designed this to be a big, bold, bright card

Happy August! And the first of the month means.....a new free Christmas chart :) We have another great chart to add to your collection of free Christmas charts - it's another design that really won't take long to stitch so you can even whip up a few of these before the next chart is released! I had lots of fun stitching up this design...in fact I stitched it more than once and enjoyed every minute of stitching them. I'm not usually one for stitching the same design multiple t

Happy mid July stitchers! How's the Christmas stitching coming along? I hope you're up to date with your 'A Year of Christmas Stitching' as I have another little design to share with you to thank you for being an email subscriber :) Don't put away the threads you used for the main July chart as this freebie uses the same threads.....got to make life easy for ourselves! There's French knots in this design....if you hate them, that's ok, just leave them out completely or subst

Oh my goodness.....it's officially summer (at least it is here, maybe not where you are!) Here's to long summer days and lots of Christmas stitching :) This month's free design is a celtic style design that can be used in multiple ways...don't you just love a versatile design like that? Do you want to make a card? This design is great for that! Would you rather make an ornament? You can use this design to make one! Fancy making something a bit different? How about a biscornu

It's been a funny old start to June, the weather has been a bit hit or miss but thankfully the Christmas stitching is progressing nicely, and that's what matters! :) We continue with the June theme of Penguins....I simply adore penguins! :) Isn't he cute with his bauble hat - or maybe like the last penguin he may be a she! Anyway, I like to give you what I call 'multi use designs' - designs that can be used for lots of different things (cards, ornaments etc) and can be given

I'm reliably informed (thanks to Google!) that there are only 238 days to Christmas! :) If you have been stitching along with us from the start of the year, you're well under way with your Christmas stitching....and if you've just joined us you can still access all the previous charts and you'll soon be caught up with us. Today we'll add another design to your collection. So... Santa needs to know if you've been naughty or nice, and if you've been naughty he'll leave you a l

Hello dear stitchers! I hope you enjoyed the Celtic Noel design. I absolutely love Celtic knots - I guess being Scottish it's in my DNA! So I just had to keep the Celtic knot theme going. Here's the email subscribers' extra design: The free chart can be found at the bottom of this page. It uses the same colors of threads that were in the main February chart, so you don't have to go faffing about looking for different threads to make this ornament... unless you want to, of cou