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You've heard the horror stories, everyone has, and you wish upon wish that it just won't happen to you as you grab a handful of threads from the store. You hope and pray they there aren't any of those dreaded dye lot issues... But is that actually an issue? Today, we look into the…
Since I started stitching I've only really used two brands of aida. A no-name brand that came free with a magazine (and was TERRIBLE quality) and a well-known brand. However thanks to my local sewing store being shut, I picked up someone else's aida. The problem was the aida was completely different. In the past,…
When I first started with cross stitch, Etsy was around, but it just didn't have anything in the way of cross stitch on it. However, in the last years, there has been an increasing number of people and brands selling cross stitch patterns on Etsy, alongside tools and threads. But is it a force for…
If you look to buy DMC threads, you'll often find that the price will vary. This isn't just an inter-country thing either, the prices of threads vary massively depending on where you live in the world. On Facebook recently someone asked why this was, and I jumped in with an answer. It turns out, that…