Crafting calms the nervous system and is a powerful form of attention management. Instead of passively cycling through ...

Don’t put up with bad karma in your house. Download this free pattern, stitch the message and tell the meanies and grumps where to go. Get the instructions and pattern. Don’t put up with bad karma in ...

In 2003, Julie Jackson stopped by a craft store to buy a really ornate cross-stitch sampler — the kind with a guide to stitching the alphabet so it could be personalized as a wedding gift — as a kind ...

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Cross-stitch addicts who have visited the Country Cupboard at 14314 Beacon Ave. in Orland Park never forget the shop. Even after moving as far away as California, New York or Florida, they still call ...

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To cross-stitch your dodo, you need to make a small cross of embroidery thread to match every coloured square on the pattern: Choose a square roughly in the middle of the dodo pattern and sew a cross ...

giant squid-coloured embroidery thread (we used DMC thread and the colours you need are on the pattern, but you can also choose your own colours) cross-stitch fabric (we used Aida 14 count fabric) an ...

A small group of cross-stitchers jumped at the chance Tuesday afternoon to create a design that left them in stitches. The cross-stitchers gathered Tuesday at the library for "crass stitch" classes.