I’ve spoken about products that catch my eye in the past, and one of our all time most popular posts is our Christmas gift guide but it’s rare I get to combine the two! This week, with the run up to Christmas beginning, I bring you the Caterpillar Cross Stitch advent calendar. Before we start;…
This post was originally in XStitch Magazine Issue 19: Yay, and has been adapted. If you've read any of my Libidan lectures before, you can probably tell a few simple things about me; I love cross stitch, I love tea, and I love Japan. Therefore, when a colleague gave me a reading suggestion recently, it…
The DMC Light Effects threads had so much promise, but 30 years after their introduction, they still aren't living up to their potential. The 90s for the DMC thread company were a wild time. They managed to open a series of factories across the world, and they went full throttle to launch new threads.…
This post was originally in XStitch Magazine Issue 18: Mixtape 4, and has been adapted. On the surface, cross stitch really doesn’t have much to do with ink. Threads are dyed, fabric is dyed, and whilst there are some modern pens that some use to grid, these are chemicals rather than inks. Sure, some print…