This post was originally in XStitch Magazine Issue 17: Adventure, and has been adapted. Here I sit, with a blank screen in front of me, tea in my hand, about to write this piece. What many people don’t know about me is that I’m an obsessive tea drinker. I’ve tried over 2000 teas in the…
Title: Futurama Slurm Can Date Completed: December 2023 Design: Lord Libidan Count: 14 Canvas: Plastic Colors: 9 Pop Culture: Futurama It's been a while since I've been able to show off some of my own cross stitch pieces. I've been working on a few secret projects, and some patterns for the Xstitch Magazine, but…
Whenever I think of Christmas and cross stitch; Scandinavian designs come to mind. In fact, I’ve supplied patterns to numerous magazines like Xstitch and Lakeside Needle Crafts Winter Cross Stitch Book on the very same style. But we don’t hear all that much from Scandinavian stitching. Where did the style come from, why is it…
For the longest time, I've been sure in my opinion that the Canary Micro Snip scissors were the best cross stitch scissors you could get. You can grab them with any hand, you can snip threads easily, no one can use them for other (non-cross stitch) uses, and you can even take them with you…
