Meet the Mr X Stitch Team!

Jamie “Mr X” Chalmers – Founder

Learn about the man behind the myth here.

Chelsea Bloxsom – Plush Love & A Sandwich

Chelsea Bloxsom is the woman behind Love & a Sandwich. She is most known for making monsters out of faux fur, but has recently gotten into making embroidered and appliqued fan art on embroidery hoops! Her work can be found updated almost daily here!

CocoaEyes – Too Cute Tuesdays

CocoaEyes is also known as O (short for Olisa Corcoran) and loves to embroider, sketch and experiment with all kinds of arts. Mostly, she stitches. Find out more about her on her blog.

Hawthorne & Heaney – Sequintial Art

Hawthorne & Heaney push the boundaries of embroidery by offering embroidery sponsorships for young designers, giving them the freedom to create without the worry of budget, season by season. We believe supporting them is supporting the progress of technique and new ideas in fashion embroidery.

Jacinta Lodge – A Stitchalicious In Time

Jacinta Lodge is the embroiderer behind Stitchalicious, selling graffiti cross stitch patterns via her etsy shop StitchaliciousDesign and releasing a free pattern every Tuesday on twitter. Her embroidered artworks have been shown in exhibitions in Germany, the UK and Canada and published in The Anticraft and Indie Craft. Jacinta is Australian, but lives in Berlin, Germany, where she does roller derby and listens to her husband hark on and on about VW buses.

Joetta Maue – Future Heirlooms

Joetta Maue is a full time artist primarily using photography and fibers. Her most recent work is a series of embroideries and images exploring intimacy. Joetta exhibits her work throughout the United States and internationally, and authors the art and craft blog Little Yellowbird as well as regularly contributing to the online journal Hello Craft. Joetta lives in Brooklyn, NY, with her husband, two cats, a goldfish and awesome baby boy, Tesla.

Lord Libidan - Sprite Stitch Best Bits

Lord Libidan is a rising star in the cross stitch world, most recently focusing on video games. He now blogs for Sprite Stitch, the most popular video game craft blog. He hand picks the best from the ever active community at the Sprite Stitch Forums.

Luke Haynes – Quilty Pleasures

LUKE Haynes is a trained Architect using his skills mostly for good. His work can be seen at his site and the associated blog. He is a full time Quilter and sometimes blogger. His work is showing across the country and soon the world.

Moxie – Felter Skelter

Felter Skelter is written by Moxie, who is an artist, fiber pusher and genuine human being. We’re all in the same boat, kid.

Penny Nickels – Needle Exchange

Penny Nickels is a printmaker that started playing with needles with tremendous effect. She and her husband, Johnny Murder, have been described as The Bonnie and Clyde of Contemporary Embroidery and you can discover the power of her creativity at her blog.

Urban Threads - Gear Threads

Gear Threads is brought to you from the offbeat gals at Urban Threads. Created by illustrator Niamh O’Connor, Urban Threads is revolutionizing machine embroidery one edgy, elegant, innovative, and/or offbeat design at a time. Discover the future of digital stitchery at www.urbanthreads.com.

Freddie Fraggles – Mr X’s Sidekick

Katherine Fitton, more usually known as Freddie, is around to apply the orange duck tape whenever Mr X needs something fixing! You won’t see Freddie’s needlework featured much here, if at all, but behind the scenes she is busy organising Phat Quarter swaps, Mr X’s other website, rollinnews.com and whatever else the boss throws at her.

Arlee Barr – ARTeries

Arlee Barr is a Canadian artist, working primarily with textiles. She describes herself as curious, eccentric and just a little opinionated. Surrealist in thought, Fauvist at heart, Arlee likes the eclectic, explorative and absurd. Sprinkled around the interwebs, she can be found hanging around her fantastic blog.

Beefranck – the Queen of Ironic Stitchery

Bridget Franckowiak, also known as Beefranck, has designed some fabulously funny, seriously strange cross stitches since she began stitching in 2008. She originally joined Mr X Stitch to curate the aptly named Beefranck’s Emporium and has since been called upon to keep a balance between the adorable and the potentially offensive material on the site.

Beefranck is the co-host of Emergency Pants, arguably the funniest podcast on the planet and is becoming something like a phenomenon on tumblr.

Curegreed – Curegreed’s Adventures…

Rosa Martyn, aka Curegreed was a degree student on the Fine Hand Embroidery course at the Royal School of Needlework. If you want to see her other work, her personal blog, My Little Stitches, is a great place to start.

Johloh – Sprite Stitch Best Bits

Johloh is an avid crafter, classic gaming junkie, and most recently a blogger. He founded Sprite Stitch, a popular video game craft blog. The best place to get a hold of him is over on the ever active Sprite Stitch Forums.

TheMistressT – Domestitchery

TheMistressT is a scumbler and plastrix by day and a craft dabbler by night. Her mottoes include any excuse for a costume and there’s no such thing as too much carpincho”.