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This post was originally written for a cross stitch magazine and has been adapted. Cross stitch has come a long way since its ancient beginnings in the sixth century BC. The traditional craft has seen remarkable development through the ages, and digital cross stitch patterns changed how we practice it today. Traditional methods kept their…
Have you ever been mid-project, totally in the zone, only to realise you’re missing that one thread? You swore you had it, maybe even bought it twice… but it’s nowhere to be found. That’s exactly what used to happen to me—until I completed my journey to owning every DMC thread. But for most stitchers, a…
Cross stitch has changed massively over the decades, and as new technologies come out, patterns in particular, change a great deal. But with recent inventions like AI, and the rise of pattern only stores like Etsy, cross stitch patterns are evolving more than ever. But what does the future hold? We go through the history…
This week we hand over to Kerri from Sew Perfectly Designed who digs into the world of cross stitch journaling, and how we actively seek to record our world. The act of recording events such as daily temperature, visited locations, or books read in cross stitch in the style of a sampler. The history of…