I've been trying to come up with ways to further explain scale, particularly as it pertains to O'jishi's background.  It isn't easy to explain something that I don't understand 100% myself but I'll try to lay out what conclusions I've come to about scale and painted canvases to help you understand scale as it pertains to needlepoint designs. The background of ...

I subscribe to JUST CROSS STITCH magazine and have for a while. Recently, I received a letter from billing services about subscription renewal. At a glance it looked legit, but when I read more carefully I noticed that the price was nearly double a regular subscription for two years and there was no place to check for just one year's payment. Being suspicious, I checked the contact info ...

Theonetruebix had a theory. As I wrote on b!X's blog, social media mavens, marketers and studio execs should be required to painstakingly crossstitch this bit on samplers: “Social media is more akin to customer service than it is to marketing, and must be treated as a conversation not as a broadcast.” Painful and indelible tattoos might also be in order.

... that some people will find the patterns offensive, so if you are not VERY broadminded, don't go there! This is a quote from the website: For those of you who don’t know what cross stitch is the best place to start is the wiki page. You could try places like crossstitch.com but there’s way too many fluffy bunnies and home sweet homes over there you’ll probably start retching like I did..