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Readers contact me all the time, and I love it. From odd stories about rare DMC threads, to pattern discussions and even some washing advice! But when someone contacted me about someone selling my free cross stitch patterns as kits (and even selling the patterns themselves), it was not a nice day. Now I've tried…
When it comes to the DMC thread companies' history, most of us know that the 90s were a big boon time for the company, with a variety of new threads coming out, one of them being variations or variegated threads. But the history of DMC variation threads is far older than you think... How…
Cross stitch trends are always changing, and the history of cross stitch shows us this. But over the last 12 months in particular, we've seen big shifts in the cross stitch being sold online and in stores, from threads in spools, the closure of US stores, and shifting kit trends. So we've taken over 10,000…
We've covered many of DMC's odd choices in the past, such as US-only threads and thread lot issues, but this one might just take the crown as the biggest mistake of them all; misprinted DMC threads! It appears that multiple shipments of DMC threads have been printed with incorrect numbers, and we've been able…