One of our most popular posts is our list of Flosstubers. Since we first published it the flosstube community has continued to bloom and even been picked up by the cross stitch crazy magazine. However, the history of flosstube and video cross stitching (including Twitch) has had a turbulent past, with both highs and lows.…
One of our most popular posts is our review of cross stitch pattern software however recently I was asked about kit creation! This isn't something I've ever done before (being so keen on making my own patterns), but it did make me think a little further about why you would want one of these, and…
I thought pretty much everyone by now would have heard of the notorious "US only DMC threads", however people do regularly ask about them on cross stitch forums and Facebook groups. However, alongside these questions come the obligatory rumors. Theories ranging from US factories, to EU laws, to other failed experiments like the linen DMC…
This post was originally in XStitch Magazine Issue 12: Noir, and has been adapted. With a theme like noir, it should be no surprise that I want to talk about black. Black is a color that to a cross stitcher could mean the backstitching outline, it could mean the shadow of a figure, or…
