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cross stitch books (source: crossstitchguild.com)

The Best Cross Stitch Books For Beginners & Advanced Cross Stitchers

With so many cross stitch books out there, I've read my way through a library just to give you a rundown of the best cross stitch books, categorized by difficulty. Best Books For Beginners The Mr X Stitch Guide to Cross Stitch Difficulty: X to XX By Jamie Chalmers Perfect for the beginner, it doesn't…

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Read more about the article Why is it called FROGGING anyway?
Frogging is also a term used in knitting for the same issue! (source: google images)

Why is it called FROGGING anyway?

A few weeks back we looked into the word railroading and found out where the name originally came from, and on our social media platforms, people started talking about other weird cross stitch words. One of these was frogging or simply 'to frog'. However, a small argument started about where the term came from, and…

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Read more about the article How Cross Stitch Helps Real World People With Real World Problems
Epic Pokemon Perler by mininete by mininete (Nete Hangel) (source: dailydot.com)

How Cross Stitch Helps Real World People With Real World Problems

Today we're going to talk about something slightly different. For two reasons. Firstly, we talking about how craft can help people, how it can enable the worst situations in life to seem a little more acceptable. And we're not talking cross stitch. Well, we kind of are, you see the thing that made me interested…

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