Title: Tarot Card – XVIII – The Moon Date Completed: December 2021 Design: Lord Libidan Count: 18 Canvas: Black Colours: 8 Pop Culture: Mystery For the next issue of the Xstitch Magazine, I had to come up with a pattern for the theme "mystery". Annoyingly, that also meant what I was going to stitch…
This post was originally in XStitch Magazine Issue 13: Fortune, and has been adapted. I use a gold petite needle when I stitch. It slips through the aida like a hot knife through butter, and whilst the small size does a lot of the work, the nice gold covering just gives it a bit…
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…