Needlework and Cross Stitch Designs by Cathy Habermann
Cranberry Christmas – Finishing Template Thank you for stitching this new Holiday Classic! I’ve provided a template (see link below) below which is the exact size that was used in the pictured finishes. You just need to grab some foamcore, cardboard, batting, ribbon & all of those extra little bits
Needle’s Dance Late last summer, 3 designers put their collaborative heads together (quite a feat since we live in 3 separate time zones!) to create a class for the 2019 Nashville Needlework Market: Stand Out With Exclusives Through much discussion, we realized that all 3 of us had participated in
Love is Kind Here we are at another wedding Anniversary. I based this year’s complimentary design on what is, I assume, a popular wedding verse from 1 Corinthians: ‘Love is Patient, Love is Kind…’. It was one of the verses that Bill & I chose for our ceremony 31 years
2013…a pretty big year for me! My ‘baby’ was graduating High School and heading off to a new chapter. We were looking at our empty nest. I was building a new business in an already 15 year career in the needlework industry. Cross Stitch & Needlework magazine came along &
I speak English. Just English. (Here’s where my mom interjects that I did take Spanish in HS…umm – yes…38+ year’s ago!) Anyway – back to the English. Fortunately for me, I teach mostly finishing at workshops and retreats – you know, lots of ‘hands on’ practical stuff with pictures in
Note: I wrote this post a week ago and realized this morning that in the craze and emotion of moving, I had not published it! Enjoy..c HA! – I almost named this design Blue Crocus…but I decided it sounded too much like an 80’s hair band! This past weekend,
‘Oh Say Can You Sea’ kicks off one of my new ‘collections’. Each design in the series is offered as both a drum (I’ve called it the ‘short stack drum’ to refer to it’s height) and the small pillow (this one is named the ‘flap jack pillow’ because I just
It really seems as if everyone has gone farm crazy…& who knows how it all started…sort of a chicken & egg type of thing – (see what I did there?) As I was finishing my Fresh Eggs Farm for the front cover of this first Chalk on the Farm chart,
I looked back on last year’s post & was hit by the photo of Bill & I standing on the lot we had just purchased…if we were to try & stand in that same spot today, I think we would be in the garage! Exciting times coming in this New
Every day as a cross-stitch designer brings with it a different to-do list! Fortunately I live for to-do lists! Sometimes it’s packing & shipping, finishing & charting, or photographing & bookkeeping. You might notice that one thing isn’t mentioned…designing! Designing is happening all of the time! You know those FB
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