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In the old days there was nothing and often solo Cross Stitchers wandered for months wondering if they were the only ones of deviantART that stitched. Then one day the founders met each other and from there it seemed Stitchers were popping up all over the place and they thought, wouldn't it be wonderful if there was a community? So, from that thought, Stitching Pirates was born and we look forward to providing you with the best community possible. Don't be afraid to ask questions, provide feedback! Without the people a community just wouldn't be what it is.

Why Stitching Pirates?

The name Stitching Pirates grew from the key pirate concepts that X always marks the spot and maps lead to something wonderful. The same applies to Cross Stitch and plus pirates are just awesome. Yargh!

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Welcome to Stitching Pirates the Cross Stitching Juggernaut.

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:ahoy: Ahoy mates! (Edit below!)

Me first self-run contest comes to a close today! We've had thirteen entries to the contest; fantastic work me hearties! I'll have the winner tonight or at the very most tomorrow afternoon (yer captain has quite a bit of homework to finish this holiday weekend). Amazing work, all of ye, and thank ye all for your participation and support!

An hour later and I've made me choice. :ahoy:
Congratulations, ~KatelynJayne, for yer winning Pac-Man entry! Yarrr! [link] I'll be sending ye a message with the details for yer prize.

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I feel like ye mates deserve a bit more explanation and praise for all yer hard work. :) It was not an easy choice, I recruited best mate =AdidaTiki and me first mate TJ into helping me decide the finals. I judged not just in effort, but bookmark finishing, artist description, and originality. All entries were fantastic, but yer mate ~KatelynJayne took the cake her no-pattern double-sided full-stitch bookmark. :) Her description was excited and it was a mutual decision between us three pirates to give her the prize. I hope ye all enjoyed me first contest!

I also went out of my way to see if there are pattern converters online ye mates could use. I'm adding one link fer ye to use at yer leisure: [link] this is the only free service I could find, the other links I found would convert but then ask ye to pay for the final pattern, were broken links, or otherwise not quite as well performing. This free version does a simplified version of what my program does, so I don't think it lessens the prize, but fer all ye hearties who'd like to take a try at it, do feel free! I'll be adding it to our link journal.

:ahoy: Thanks mates! [/End edit!]

Yer lovely pieces:
Monogram Book Mark [link] by ~Scienceandart
Monkey Bookmark [link] by ~cheekylittleprincess
Faye Valentine bookmark [link] by ~avatarswish
A Reader - Bookmark [link] by *jijikit
Panda Bookmark [link] by ~Devi-Tiger
Seahorse Bookmark [link] by *bittykitty
Golden Books [link] by *immortallies
Jacobean Bookmark - Cross stich [link] by ~MandiJ
contest entry bookmark [link] by ~Kay-Mika
Celtic Knot Bookmark [link] by *Joce-in-Stitches
Seal mermaid bookmark [link] by *digikijo
Pac-Man Bookmark [link] by ~KatelynJayne
Waves Bookmark [link] by *jijikit

:bulletyellow: The first (and only) place prize is a pattern conversion by meself. If ye be curious as to what that's like, you can see our last contest's prize here: [link] It also included the color list and a colorized symbol pattern, which I sent via email.

Perhaps next contest we could get more prizes together, for now I hope this is sufficient. :)

:ahoy: Until next time mates, fair winds!
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~reebba May 11, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
Hi, sorry I left the group but I'm gonna focus just on toons on this account. I'll probably create a new account just for cross-stitch, when I do that, I'll ask again to join. Thanks for everything :D

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*pinkythepink 5 days ago  Hobbyist Artisan Crafter
No worries! :ahoy: Happy to have had ye around mate, and do hope to see ye again!

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Hey all! So I'm working on my cross stitching and finally finishing something that might be frame worthy. Except I have no idea how to frame! How do you all frame a finished cross stitch project?

Thanks for any tips you can share!

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*pinkythepink Apr 30, 2012  Hobbyist Artisan Crafter
:ahoy: Ahoy, mate!

I personally am terrible when it comes to properly framing cross-stitch pieces. I've been slowly learning the correct ways to do things, but as I'm mostly self taught it's been quite the process! So I can tell ye, by all means, don't simply cut around the border unless ye've done it on plastic canvas. No no no... 'tis a very bad idea to do so, unless ye've properly stopped it from fraying at that point the threads will come right out.

A quick google search brought up this quick guide for tips on framing: [link]

Many kits, especially Dimensions or Janlynn, will often comes with framing direction in with the pattern. If ye have any of those ye could follow those instructions as well. :)

:ahoy: Fair winds and fun stitching!

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Mood: Joy ~BabiChuld Apr 29, 2012  New member Hobbyist Artisan Crafter
Thank you for adding my Fairy/horse to the gallery, much appreciated!

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