Make your own cross stitch design

I found great web for cross stitching: PictureCraftWork. Place where you can make your own design from your photo.

Blog on cross stitching

I found great blog on cross stitch. A lot of pictures, charts, mostly in nice combination of red and white. List of freebies is here.
Some of those designs could be used for knitting too.
Btw. blog is written in French, but I donot think, that we need to understand language for this type of embroidery.

New website on cross stitching

Several days ago I made new web. Designs for cross stitch embroidery. I like to play with colours on grid paper or excel sheet and some of my ideas you can see on my new website Free cross stitch pattern

Crocheted heart - instruction

If you want/need pattern for crocheted heart, please look here.

Egyptian knitting and crocheting

I love to browse internet and to look what knit, sew, crochet... people in other parts of earth.
REcently I found interesting web of group of Egyptian designers with knitted and crocheted things. You can buy them or you can only browse and admire creativity of designers.

Cross stitched patchwork

Cross stitched patchwork
Originally uploaded by imichalova1

Patchwork design converted to embroidery.
Chart for embroidery you can find here: www.free-cross-stitch.howto.cz/1-20/11.HTM

Tif January - detail

Tif January - detail
Originally uploaded by imichalova1

Finaly I took picture of TIF January.
Colours are not precisely same as on Sharon´s colour scheme, because I wanted to use silk and I didnot found exact colours in my fabrics. Lines are created by knitting yarn sewn on fabric with machine.

Valentine hearts

I browse internet to find some heart motifs and I found:
Sample heart in cross stitch
Hearts in blue colour
Small cross stitch motifs, among them quilted heart.
Heart in two colours
Hearts with letters on this web.

Carneval inspiration

I just found this article in my reader: http://pingmag.jp/2008/02/07/carnival-costume-galore-in-sao-paulo/
I think you must be pretty good in sewing to make something like this :-)