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Whilst being a cross stitch designer isn’t something I would necessarily be interested in, I’ve got a lot of illustrator friends who do tattoos or the odd commissioned artwork who see some of the patterns I’m working on, and start to get a bit curious. Unfortunately I’m not very good at meeting that...

I can't actually remember how old I was now, but for me the notion to try it out was thanks in part to a friend. They actually bought me a kit with all the trimmings, so to speak, and walked me through the process since up until then I'd only done a bit of textiles at school, and that was more in th...

For myself, I'm not sure I would've taken the plunge to find more about the hobby, get some cross stitch kits and the stuff I need if someone hadn't shown me the basics of it first. I think it is a little bit of a help nowadays that, and I think the article mentioned this, the internet has kind of b...

Was scrolling along and I came across this article: ' 5 Reasons NOT To Pass Up Cross Stitch '. It basically lists a couple of the more typical people one would be surprised to see with cross stitch kits (men, very young etc.) and reasons one wouldn't try it out. Though I'm not sure how much those st...

Motion sickness is the reason I'd probably not want to try it. I can barely get through a few pages of a book for needing to put it down and stare out the front window to try and make the sickness go away (which doesn't often work). But imagining I COULD cross stitch without getting queasy, or if I'...

I always tend to bookmark stuff like this for such an occasion! :whoop: Weirdest ways I've seen finished cross stitch used... As brail: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_yTEpoJ9_KNM/S69c7JOJiKI/AAAAAAAAEFQ/Yq_tewECjbo/s400/schinders.jpg QR codes... http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2012/085/4/2/space_invade...

Thanks for all the replies everyone. It's really eye-opening to see how weird the problem has gotten (particularly that nonsense of being not-really-interviewed Amanda G, very bizarre... :shock: ). I had a feeling Pinterest was going to pop up. I've seen and had a lot of charts shared with me and wh...

Hi All. This may be a strange topic, but being on a forum again and around people who know their cross stitching, I'm interested in finding out more about copyright and particularly piracy when it comes to cross stitching. Someone in one of the groups I'm part of said that one of their favourite des...

Hallo new poster here; love idea of this topic! Reading through the confessions that have been posted so far, I feel like the fact that don't lick my thread...like at all...qualifies as a confession now. It's not that I find it weird or icky, it's just when I used to do it when I was learning to sew...