By Julie Jackson One day while I was lurking around on Pinterest, I came across these amazing photos of large-scale cross stitch in public spaces. So you just know I had to find out more and tell you about it! The artist, who is in Germany, goes by the name Miss Cross Stitch. She has […]
And we’re back with our twenty-eighth installment of Your Comments. Here are our favorites from the past week, from Make: Online, our Facebook page, and Twitter.
This story is so close to my heart that it’s taken me a month to figure out how to write about it. It’s the story of Major Alexis Casdagli, a British soldier in WWII who began cross stitching secret subversive messages while in a Nazi prisoner of war camp. It’s the story of his son, […]
By Garth Johnson CRAFT is excited to announce our new monthly columnist, Garth Johnson of Extreme Craft, who will be writing about crafter extraordinaires. Welcome Garth! Isabelle Baril-Ortley knows how to kick it up a notch. When I was drawing up the short list of names for my inaugural Extreme Craft column for CRAFT, Isabelle’s […]
Maker newbie David Lang is writing about his adventures in the DIY world at Make with his column, Zero to Maker: Getting Up to Speed With DIY. Over the next month or so, David Lang, something of a reluctant maker, is immersing himself in maker culture and learning as many DIY skills as he can, […]
The sometimes NSFW creations of Matthew Monthei have been seriously cracking me up for some time now. Anyone who cross stitches and then uses their crotch as a backdrop is pretty awesome in my book. Matthew is a regular contributor to the Subversive Cross Stitch Flickr group, which is where I first saw his work. […]
By Julie Jackson I discovered the work of Claire Brown of Miso Funky a few years ago, when I bought two of her cross stitch pieces (“Sniff Glue, Worship Satan” and “In Case of Emergency, Breakdance”). I have never quite recovered from the hilarity of these, so I thought it was high time to catch […]
