In 2003, Julie Jackson stopped by a craft store to buy a really ornate cross-stitch sampler — the kind with a guide to stitching the alphabet so it could be personalized as a wedding gift — as a kind ...

A few weeks ago, my friend Lux Alptraum (who runs the fantastically NSFW porn blog Fleshbot) asked me if I could teach her how to do cross-stitch embroidery. Sure, I said. Needlepoint was actually one ...

Indulge your Benedict Cumberbatch fantasies and make cross-stitch patterns of the hunky Hamlet If you missed out on tickets to see Benedict Cumberbatch playing Hamlet, don’t despair. A new book, ...

This weekend, a local museum is inviting community members for a hands-on workshop exploring cross-stitch as a practice of ...