There are a lot of advantages to using a needle minder, from saving you losing needles and keeping things tiny to just adding a bit of interest to your stitching space. But do you really need to buy a needle minder? We don't think so. In fact, you can make a whole variety of needle…
Cross stitch needles have two different eyes. And we don't just mean those double eyed cross stitch needles either, one side of the cross stitch needle is slightly more open than the other. Let us explain. How They're Made We're not going to go into a lot of detail here, but we will talk about…
Considering we use them so much, cross stitch needles or tapestry needles to give them their rightful name, are staples for our craft. Therefore, when I spoke about the best types of cross stitch needles in a previous post, I thought I had all of them covered. For a while, I thought there were no…
We like needles here, and as a result its probably no surprise that we've come across gold plated needles before. In fact, we even mentioned them in our post about choosing the perfect cross stitch needle for you. However, a lot of people are skeptical of gold plated needles. There's a good reason for this;…