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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…
This post was originally in XStitch Magazine Issue 23: Myths & Legends (2022), and has been adapted for the blog. Opinions may now be outdated. When it comes to cross stitch and myths; there aren’t any. In fact, there really aren’t many legends either. There are some questions that still persist through the years that…
With the recent closures of JoAnn's in America, cross stitch forums and social media have been awash with images of stripped shelves and thread hauls. However, there has been one constant in these images; DMC thread packs. I've personally mostly stayed away from these, but are they a good thing for a cross stitcher to buy,…