Cards featured here must have been posted in either the Stitching Cards forum gallery or the Forum-A-Lines forum gallery. The card should be based on a Stitching Cards pattern or a Form-A-Lines pattern.

This week’s card is “beaded butterfly” made by Lady Di…

Recently a Stitching Cards customer contacted me to say that she had been told by her post office that International Reply Coupons (IRCs) were no longer available. This is a typical response from post office staff who do not know what IRCs are, or do not want the bother of ordering them…

This Christmas bauble pattern is easy to stitch as most of the work comprises of stem stitch. The downloadable pattern includes instructions for stem stitch…

Cards featured here must have been posted in either the Stitching Cards forum gallery or the Forum-A-Lines forum gallery. The card should be based on a Stitching Cards pattern or a Form-A-Lines pattern.

This week’s card is “pink beaded flower card” made by jojo.mary…

Handmade Christmas cards can be traced back to fifteenth century Germany where cards with religious pictures were exchanged as Christmas gifts. The custom of sending Christmas cards by post started in Victorian England with the advent of the penny post…

Stitched leaves often employ a fan style stitch where most of the thread goes from points on the rim of the leaf into a single hole where it joins the stem. This can easily be converted to a loop stitch using the same holes but having much less thread on the back of the card…

As you know 50% of the work is stitched from the back of your card and 50% is stitched from the front. The stitching diagram shows you the view of the front of the card. When you turn the card over to work from the back you get a reverse image of the pattern. If you are working on a circle or line it is easy to see which hole to use next. However, if you are working on an area with random dots it becomes more of a challenge…

Cards featured here must have been posted in either the Stitching Cards forum gallery or the Forum-A-Lines forum gallery. The card should be based on a Stitching Cards pattern or a Form-A-Lines pattern.

This week’s card is “Mary and baby” made by Belfast crafter…

There are several stitching fonts available from the Stitching Cards web site. When one of these is installed on your computer you can use any of your word processing programs to type words of your choice ready to stitch…

I design my stitching patterns to fit on a standard size double-fold card. These type of cards may not be available locally to you, particularly if you live outside of the UK. There are other options and the results can enhance the design in a creative way…