Happy Easter!

Happy Easter, everybody! May your day be blessed with all you enjoy (including a bit of stitching!). Here are a few freebies to help:

• Free Patterns Online has several cute cross stitch charts.
• If you like beading, you might want to make an Easter basket from About.com.
• Sandy Riggs has an adorable Easter Bunny with Basket

Of course, you can also visit my links from last year, too.

Enjoy!

Holiday Freebies

Not much to report on the stitching front today. I'm still ripping out and replacing acorns, but got a late start tonight since I was baking for the "winter feast" at work tomorrow.

Since I don't have progress to share, I thought I'd pass this along, instead. A few designers have started to come out with their holiday freebies:

• Mirabilia's 2007 Cherub
• Rosewood Manor's first ever "Christmas Gift": The Sugar Plum Tree
• Victoria Sampler has three new holiday freebies in their "VS Club". (You may have to sign up (free!) to get access to these.)

That's all I know of so far. Thanks to Nora, Karen, and Thea for these great designs! If anybody knows of other designers who have released new holiday freebies, please let us know by leaving a comment. I'll be sure to add the links to this post.

It's Turkey Day!

Happy Thanksgiving to all my fellow American stitchers! I hope your day is filled with family, good food, and a lot of fun!

I've found a few Thanksgiving freebies, and would like to share:

• a turkey from Carrie's Creations
• a November banner from Erica Michaels and Rainbow Gallery (pdf)
• Be Thankful from Erica Michaels and Rainbow Gallery (pdf)
• a pilgrim man and woman from Joan Green and Rainbow Gallery (pdf). These are designed for plastic canvas, but could be done in cross stitch or on canvas.
• Autumn Leaves from Nancy Spruance Designs
• Happy Thanksgiving design from About.com

Enjoy, and have a safe, happy holiday! Count your blessings!

Happy Birthday, USA!

To all my fellow Americans, Happy Fourth of July! (To those of you in other areas of the world, you can have a happy fourth as well, but it just doesn't mean the same thing! :-) )

To celebrate, here are some sites with patriotic freebies:

• Richard Seekins designs: Flag and American Shield
• Whispered by the Wind: "Stars and Stripes" and "Freedom" on the freebies page
• Rainbow Gallery: The needlepoint and cross stitch freebies pages have several patriotic designs!
• Waxing Moon Designs: For something different, stitch the Patriotic Snowman on the Waxing Moon freebies page.
• From Enchanted Fabrics and Helga Mandl: July 4th freebie (PDF file)
• Dutch Treat Designs: A Red, White, and Blue Doily from the company that makes great tabletopper designs!

If you've found some other freebies and would like to share where they can be found, please leave a comment!

Enjoy the designs, and have fun grilling, watching fireworks and parades, or just stitching - however you want to celebrate the day!

Happy Easter!

I wish all of you a very happy and blessed Easter! The Easter Bunny stopped by to point out a few freebie patterns:

• from Nancy Spruance Designs: Bunnies Border
• from Waxing Moon Designs: Checkerboard Bunny
  
• from Whispered by the Wind: spring designs on the freebies page
• from The Caron Collection & Donna Yuen: Spring in the Garden
  
• from Rainbow Gallery: scroll through the cross stitch freebies page (for several spring and Easter designs) and check out the last item on the needlepoint freebies page

Enjoy!