It's probably no surprise to regular readers, but I'm a fan of needle minders. I've spoken about the weird world of needle minders before, but there's something you might not know: I don't put needle minders on my work. OK, OK, I love them, and I use them, but I keep it next to me…
My niece LOVES to pick up my cross stitch. It doesn't matter if it's half-completed or not, she wants her hands on it. So I thought to myself; maybe there is cross stitch out there, specifically made to be played with. Today, we run down the best cross stitch toys. Thread Maniac's Mazes OK, so…
In this quarters XStitch Magazine I wrote about the Silk Road, and how an often-ignored part of Asian history had a vital impact on the origins of cross stitch. In the piece I often talk about silk, hence the Silk Road name, and talk about how it threads migrated along the route, eventually ending in…
It's really important to us that we use non-copyrighted images for our cross stitch pattern spotlight, so when we were given the task of finding a killer Futurama pattern, we thought we'd have a struggle on our hands. However, in our search we found some really great patterns, with no copyright, but still, clearly Futurama.…