Cross-stitching is ridiculously twee.
It’s old fashioned and fiddly and completely, totally addictive.
Because nothing is as relaxing as colour blocking in a big section of your most recent project on the sofa in front of the TV of an evening.
If you spend your free time searching the carpet for dropped needles, counting stitches and splitting skeins of thread to make yet another bookmark or coaster that you really don’t need, you should realise you’re hooked.
Here’s 21 things you only know if you cross-stitch.
1. The anticipation and buzz you get when you stretch your 14-count Aida across a frame to start a fresh stitch…
2. …Which only turns to annoyance when you remember the state your threads are in.
And once again you… Read the full story