How-To: Hidden Message Cross Stitch

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Flickr user clarastygn divulged the diabolically simply way that a “hidden” message was put into this work called “(Hidden) In plain sight.”

This is done with the same thread, the “hidden” message is just cross stitch[ed] in different directions than all the other stitches and is revealed depending on light/where your eyes are.

[via Needlework]

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