There are a few helpful cross stitch tips that I didn’t learn right away. Not big things. Not anything complicated. Just small, quiet details… the kind that don’t seem important until you realize how much easier they make everything. Some of them I learned over time. Some of them I learned the hard way. Here are 5 little things about cross-stitch that make a big difference. 🧵 1. Longer Thread Is Not Better I used to tell myself I was being efficient by making my thread really long so I wouldn’t have to stop and rethread so often. It sounds like a good plan… and for about one or two…
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My Cross Stitch Hobby: The Stitch That Never Left
My cross stitch hobby is something I talk about often now, but the truth is my love of stitching started long before cross stitch ever entered the picture. I’ve been stitching for most of my life. Not cross stitch at first — just stitching in general. I learned how to sew by machine when I was seven years old. By eight, I had moved on to embroidery. At that age, a needle and thread felt like magic to me. You could start with a plain piece of fabric and somehow turn it into something beautiful. When I was growing up, I had two career goals. I was either going to…
