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Two Travel Poster Inspired Cross Stitch Patterns From 2025 That Focus On Items Other Than Destinations

Cross Stitch Trends 2024–2025: What Etsy’s Best-Sellers Reveal

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…

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Read more about the article Mini Cross Stitch Designs: Creating Impactful Miniature Art
Selection of Mini Cross Stitch Patterns based on artworks (Source: Etsy)

Mini Cross Stitch Designs: Creating Impactful Miniature Art

Whilst we've been blogging about cross stitch for over 10 years now, we're mostly known for our epic Pokemon cross stitch, and for a long time, people have flocked to epic or large cross stitch projects that take 100s of hours to stitch. But recently, we've seen the opposite end of the scale: mini cross…

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Read more about the article PSA: Misprinted DMC Threads Found In The Wild
DMC 746 next to a misprinted 746 (Source: Reddit /r/CrossStitch)

PSA: Misprinted DMC Threads Found In The Wild

  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…

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Read more about the article Cyberpunk 2077 Keychain Cross Stitch by Lord Libidan
Cyberpunk 2077 Keychain Cross Stitch by Lord Libidan

Cyberpunk 2077 Keychain Cross Stitch by Lord Libidan

Title: Cyberpunk 2077 Keychain Date Completed: May 2025 Design: Lord Libidan Count: 18 Canvas: Hand Dyed Yellow Colours: 2 Video Game: Cyberpunk 2077 When it comes to aida, I love bright and vibrant colors. In the past I've printed directly onto aida similar to how DMC have their own range of printed aida, but there…

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