Needleworkers have been cross stitching for centuries. While the simple “X” stitch hasn’t changed, what we “X” ON and what we “X” WITH has changed over time. Today’s threads include wool, cotton, silk, metallic, twine, bamboo, rayon, polyester, real metal, holographic, glow-in-the-dark, reflective, wired and more. We cross stitch on…
The Funk Files – Meet Lisa Carroll
Every year, Hand & Lock organizes a competition for the prestigious Prize for Embroidery to promote the use of hand embroidery and to discover emerging embroidery talent. The 2018 brief invited entrants to “celebrate culture, gender and individual heritage in the global atmosphere of transformation.” They were asked to make…
Are you a Cross Stitcher?
Our continuing assessment of themes in the mainstream cross stitch publication market turns its attention to CrossStitcher Magazine, one of the longest running titles, published by Future Publishing and then Dennis Publications. For each issue we focused on the main image offered in each issue, and categorised that design within broad…