A Thames sailing barge pattern has been added at the Stitching Cards website. It makes a great birthday card for men. It can also be used for congratulations, thank you and other messages.

A Thames sailing barge was a type of commercial sailing boat common on the River Thames in London in the 19th century. The flat-bottomed barges were perfectly adapted to the Thames Estuary, with its shallow waters and narrow rivers.

The barges also traded much further afield, to the north of England, the South Coast and even to continental European ports. Cargoes varied enormously: bricks, mud, hay, rubbish, sand, coal and grain, for example…

A rooster pattern has been added at the Stitching Cards website. It makes a great birthday card for men. It can also be used for congratulations, thank you and other messages.

The term “rooster”, for a male chicken, originates from the United States, while in the United Kingdom the older term “cockerel” is more widely used. During the daytime, he often sits on a high perch, usually 4 to 5 feet off the ground to serve as a lookout for his flock. He will sound a distinctive alarm call if predators are nearby…

An enchanting witch pattern has been added at the Stitching Cards website. The sexy witch on a broomstick flying across the moon would make a great Halloween card for teenage girls.

This year Halloween falls on Sunday, the 31st of October 2010. Witches have had a long association with Halloween. Legends tell of witches gathering twice a year when the seasons changed, on April 30, the eve of May Day and again on the eve of October 31, All Hallows’ Eve.

It is said that witches would arrive on broomsticks to celebrate at a party hosted by the devil. Superstitions tell of witches casting spells on unsuspecting people, transform themselves into different forms and causing other magical mischief…

This week’s card is called Jackie’s birthdayand was made by Nette. This attractive card was made using the Form-A-Lines Fanciful Cat with a Goldfish Pattern .

The pattern is stitched on white card and coloured with pencils. It is edged with gold peel-off border stickers and mounted on a mesh background.

Cards featured here must have been posted in either the Stitching Cards forum gallery or the Forum-A-Lines forum gallery…

This week’s card is called Fawn and Squirrel in fall and was made by Basteljeanny. This eye catching card was made using the Stitching Cards Fawn and Squirrel pattern.

Basteljeanny said “I like fall and I stitched a lot of cards for my freinds”.

Cards featured here must have been posted in either the Stitching Cards forum gallery or the Forum-A-Lines forum gallery…

This week’s card is called Wedding Hearts and was made by Pam Zimmerman. This beautiful card was made using Form-A-Lines Wedding Hearts Pattern.

Pam Zimmerman said “DMC metallic gold and green thread was used. I used beads for the flowers. Satin paper was used to stitch the pattern mounted on a gold background”.

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 picture was posted in the Stitching Cards forum gallery…

Six new stitching card patterns have been added to the Pinbroidery website. They complete the patterns inspired by the song “The Twelve Days of Christmas”. They feature twelve drummers drumming, eleven pipers piping, ten lords a leaping, nine ladies dancing, eight maids a milking and seven swans a swimming.

Each design has pricking patterns of two sizes: 144 x 144 mm (5.65 x 5.65 inches) and 152 x 104 mm (6 x 4½ inches). The square pricking pattern has words on two edges and the rectangular pattern omits the words.

The patterns are available individually and in a value pack of all six designs…

This week’s card is called Cupcake birthday card and was made by Aud. This stunning card was made using Stitching Cards Cupcake pattern.

Aud said “This is the very recently released pattern and is one of four cards I have made already!”.

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 picture was posted in the Stitching Cards forum gallery.

This week’s card is called Christmas bauble and was made by Eileen. This attractive card was made using Free Forum-A-Lines Christmas bauble pattern.

This was the first card entered in the Form-A-Lines forum September/October card making challenge. The cards should be based on the free bauble pattern and can be customised in any way the card maker chooses.

I asked Eileen about the gold stripes and she said “They were a bit of a mistake that turned out OK. After stitching I stamped the snowmen and Santa onto two strips of white card edged with a gold Krylon pen. I then decided to fill in the rest with red stickles but didn’t like the red, so dumped some fine gold glitter over the lot while it was still wet. It ended up looking like ruffled ribbon”…

A bauble stitching card pattern has been added to the free patterns section of the Form-A-Lines website. The large bauble has an open area where you can add extra decoration of your choice, such as a greeting or a decoupage image.

This bauble pattern is currently being featured in the Form-A-Lines forum gallery card making challenge. Forum membership is required to post pictures. Go to the forum and click the “Join” link to join.

The direct link to the free bauble pattern is www.form-a-lines.com/freepattern05.php

A selection of greeting words have also been added to the free patterns section…