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 ...

"I joined online embroidery communities for inspiration ... "I love textile art and these are just so beautiful," she said. Each cross-stitching pattern was manually transferred on digital grid ...

Yet in Jazmina Barrera’s understated and lovely debut novel, “Cross-Stitch,” translated from the Spanish by Christina MacSweeney, embroidery is revealed to be as quietly brutal as young ...