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Guess who was featured on Redfin.com's latest article 'How to Display and Decorate Your Home Using Your Threadwork'?We're under under the 9th paragraph, look under 'Look for opportunities to display your art'.  :) …

I have a girlfriend who's birthday is just 12 days after mine...We love to exchange fun kitchey types of gifts for one another. This year she gave me some beautiful salad tongs with pretty little metal pineapple's on top. So this got me thinking on some of the fun summer get together’s we've had in the past, and the got me contemplating about what kind of gift I would give to her for her birthday. Beautiful embroidered place mats came to mind for those backyard barbecues. They will lend a little …

A headband slider is a very simple yet amazingly cute way of customizing that hair retaining device we've all come to know and love!In it's purest form, a headband slider is simply a crafty attachment that literally slides on to your headband, along with enough friction to help keep it in place.In the following tutorial we are expanding that definition by including that wonderful craft we all have grown a passion for... embroidery! For this example, we are going to use a machine embroidered desi …

Hand embroidery today is more popular than ever! With the ability to download a digital file of a pattern, you can print it out and then start stitching in no time at all! This only makes creative hand projects such as ours that much more easy and fun!For some though, the idea of transferring an embroidered pattern might seem a bit problematic or difficult. Thankfully there are a number of easy techniques listed below that work quite well, and don’t require any elaborate tools on your part.CHOIC …

Summer is a busy time of year for us, as it seems there is always a birthday coming up. I am always looking for cute ways to personalize my gifts. And I really love gift tags. They have always been so much to fun to add to a package. And it seems like the design ideas for them are endless. These little gift tags are no exception. They are a quick in-the-hoop project that you can personalize to fit your color tastes and with three different designs, they are sure to add variety. We chose a plain …