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…
When it comes to cross stitch, it's rare to get bogged down in fancy words that only a graphic designer would know. But there is one notable exception; dithering. A rarely spoken about tool of every cross stitcher, dithering is a technique that can elevate any cross stitch to true master status. But despite that,…
A point comes in every cross stitchers journey when they wonder about making a heritage piece. A piece that stands the test of time and is either handed down across generations or something that could be housed in a museum 100 years from now! But how do you actually go about stitching a heritage…