Because cross stitch is great, but sometimes it’s SO frickin’ slow to do.
Luckily, this book by Jacqui Pearce (the lady behind Pearl and Earl and a shed load of other things) is published tomorrow.
Category Archives: Cross stitch
Cross stitching you totes want to do.
For more new designs from Urban Cross Stitch, take a look at their website.
This is something to investigate in your lunch break.
The full story is here.
Filed under Craft on the interweb, Cross stitch, Embroidery
Look what Mr X Stitch has been up to.
Cross stitched spam. Go see some more here.
Craft + beer = awesome.
From July 1 through to August the Blue Moon Brewing company are hosting a series of events called Artfully Crafted, that include cross stitch, screen printing and more. Find your nearest event here.
(Excellent work by a brand, don’t you think?)
‘Evil Rose West gives inmates cross-stitching lessons in her jail cell.’
Wow, this is one hell of a story in the Mirror, about Rose West giving craft lessons. My favourite line from the piece?
‘They are all good with needles, which is not necessarily a pleasant thought considering their crimes.’
It’s official: cross stitch is the next big craft.
So says the Evening Standard in their Monday supplement, Trends. All illustrated with a nice big picture of a cross-stitched Vogue.
The one with the knitted Andy Warhol and the embroidered Lady Gaga.
I have spent most of today at the Stitch and Craft show. Here are my favourite pictures of the day:
1. Snippets from the Foundling Museum’s ‘Threads of Feeling’ exhibition.
2&3. Two pieces from the uber- brilliant exhibition of famous knitted artworks, by Newcastle-based knitters The Materialistics.
4. Yarn. Lovely, colourful yarn.
5. Loani Prior’s Carmen Miranda-inspired tea cozy.
6&9. Gaga and other stuff, stitched, and the new-to-2011 Mr X Stitch stand. Nothing to buy, just stuff to look at.
