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 ...

If you know exactly what you're doing with the pattern, grab your needle and thread and start celebrating Matt Smith's reign as the Doctor via the medium of cross stitch. The picture above is a ...

To cross-stitch your dodo, you need to make a small cross of embroidery thread to match every coloured square on the pattern: Choose a square roughly in the middle of the dodo pattern and sew a cross ...

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 ...