Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. A botanical alphabet blooms on this colorful cross-stitch sampler bordered in green. As early as the fifteenth century ...

This slight debut compendium from Maillard brings together hundreds of cross-stitch patterns she collected from old manuals. The majority of the designs are for alphabets, since the patterns are ...

Centuries ago, kids spent hours doing a hobby that taught them precision and patience. The strange part isn't that they did ...

Designer Greenoff (Everything: Cross Stitch) encourages readers to create their own “masterpieces” by combining the dozens of patterns she offers in this beautiful volume. First, she briefly covers ...

The first person to realize that the tiny holes in a fabric’s weave were the perfect guide for stitching precise little Xs might have trouble recognizing what is now known as counted cross-stitch. The ...