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Introducing Juliet of Very Cross Stitching -- I saw her work on Instagram and had to share it with you. Come back to the link at the end of this article to see as we add more of her work on our site! ----------- Hello there! My name is Juliet and I am the girl behind Very Cross Stitching! I live in the North-West of the UK, famous for the Industrial Revolution and the Suffragette movement amongst other things. Northerners are down to earth folk who don’t take themselves too seriously and I think this is reflected in some of my...

I'm blown away by Victoria's work, of NeedlePopCrafts. We're so lucky to be able to offer her Barbara Kruger piece as a Special Deluxe kit, with 8 skeins of DMC floss! For each kit sold, $7.00 will be donated to The Brigid Alliance. Here's her story: My mom taught me how to cross stitch in middle school, but I didn’t really become serious about it as a hobby until recently (mostly to offset the existential dread of terminally online millennial-hood). Last year I fell in love with that trend of miniaturizing classic paintings and wanted to see if I could design my own versions...

Meet the creator of the Octopus pattern you love! And many more patterns available in our PDF shop (so check back!). I found the octopus on Instagram and, when it made me laugh out loud, I knew I wanted to share it with you and she was game! Here's her story: Hey!  My name is Chrissy and I am the stitcher/creator behind stitchcraftByFwass!   Fwass is the resurrection of an old nickname, it's as funny to say as it is to spell.  I live in the Great White North otherwise known as Canada, on an Island in the West coast of British...

Rosalie and Douglas Gale are the inventors of Shower Art - clever waterproof art you can hang in your shower with a suction cup. They've been making Shower Art since 2008 and have become the very best Shower Art makers in the whole Pacific NW, probably even the world. This dynamic duo owns two retail stores in Seattle: Ugly Baby in the historic Pike Place Market and Monster in the Ballard neighborhood. Both stores sell the work of independent artists – Ugly Baby has a special focus on D.I.Y. craft kits  & enamel pins (aside from the full Ugly Baby line) and Monster features the work of...