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A subset of embroidery, cross-stitch is a wonderfully addicting kind of needlework that creates a design on fabric by way of tiny little X’s with embroidery floss or other fibers. Common fabric choices are aida, ‘evenweave’, or linen. It has become immensely popular for those fabrics to be coffee/tea dyed for a vintage look or colorful and mottled. Designs styles are anything from antique samplers, primitive, fantasy, to subversive.
Helpful Links:
- Cross Stitch Calculator (Yarn Tree)
- Floss Palette Generator (Stitch Palettes)
- Skin Tone Chart (Lord Libidan)
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Designers
- 1897 Schoolhouse Samplers
- A. Fox Originals
- Abby Rose Designs
- Alessandra Adelaide
- All Through The Night
- Alma Lynne Designs
- Amaryllis Artworks
- Amy Bruecken Designs
- Annalee Waite Designs
- Annie Beez Folk Art
- Artful Offerings
- ArtMishka
- ArtVentures
- Astor Place
- AuryTim
- Autumn Lane Stitchery
- Avlea Mediterranean Folk
- Barbara Ana Designs
- Bella Fillipina
- Bendy Stitchy Designs
- Bent Creek
- Birds of a Feather
- Black Branch Needlework
- Blackberry Lane Designs
- Blackberry Rabbit
- Blackbird Designs
- Blue Ribbon Designs
- Bobbie G Designs
- Brenda Riddle
- Brittercup Designs
- Brooke’s Books Publishing
- Burdhouse Stitchery
- Butternut Road
- By the Bay Needleart
- ByGone Stitches
- Calico Crossroads
- Cardan Antiques and Needlework
- Carolina House Designs
- Carousel Charts
- Carriage House Samplings
- Caterpillar Cross Stitch
- Cat and Mouse Designs
- Chatelaine
- Cherished Stitches
- Cherry Lane Designs
- Chessie and Me
- City Stitcher
- Clarissa Thorne
- CM Designs
- Cottage Garden Samplings
- Country Cottage Needleworks
- Courtney Collection
- Cross Eyed Cricket
- Cross Stitch Antiques
- Cross Stitching Art
- Cross-Point Designs
- Crossed Wing Collection
- Cuore E Batticuore
- CW Designs
- Dames of the Needle
- Darling and Whimsy Designs
- Death by Thread
- Designing Women
- Designs by Gloria and Pat
- Designs by Lisa
- Dragon Dreams
- Dutch Treat Designs
- EJV Designs
- Elizabeth’s Designs
- Ellen Maurer-Stroh
- Erica Michaels
- Faby Reilly Designs
- Fairy Wool in the Wood
- Faithwurks
- Fallbrook House Needleplay
- Filigram
- Fire Wing Designs
- Fox and Rabbit Designs
- Foxwood Crossings
- Freda’s Fancy Stitching
- Frog Cottage
- From the Heart
- Frony Ritter Designs
- Frosted Pumpkin Stitchery
- Gentle Pursuit Designs
- Gigi R
- Gina Coleman (Sirithre)
- Ginger and Spice
- Glendon Place
- Golden Circle Designs
- Graph-It-Art
- Handblessings
- Hands Across the Sea Samplers
- Hands on Design
- Hands to Work
- Heart in Hand Needleart
- Heartstring Samplery
- Hello From Liz Matthews
- Heritage Crafts
- Hinzeit
- Homespun Elegance
- Imaginarium (Maxine Gadd)
- Imaginating
- In a Gentle Fashion
- Ink Circles
- Jardin Prive
- JBW Designs
- Jeanette Crews Designs
- Jeannette Douglas
- Jim Shore
- Joan Elliott
- Just Another Button Company
- Just Nan
- Just Stitching Along
- Kathy Barrick
- Kays Frames and Designs
- Keslyn’s
- Kit and Bixby
- Kitty and Me
- Kooler Design Studio
- Kustom Krafts
- Kyoko Maruoka Gera
- La D Da
- Lavender and Lace
- Les Petites Croix De Lucie
- Lesley Teare
- Lila’s Studio
- Lilipoints
- Lilli Violette
- Lindsay Lane Designs
- Lindy Stitches
- Little Dove Designs
- Little House Needleworks
- Little Stitch Girl
- Lizzie Kate
- Lone Elm Lane
- Long Dog Samplers
- Lori Holt
- Lucy Beam Love in Stitches LuHu Stitches
- Luv 4 Cross Stitch
- Lynne Nicoletti
- Madame Chantilly
- Madame La Fee
- Mani di Donna
- MarNic Designs
- Meridian Designs for Cross Stitch
- Michael Powell
- Michelle Ink Needlework Designs
- Midnight Stitching
- Milady’s Needle
- Mill Hill
- Mirabilia
- Misty Hill Studio
- Moira Blackburn Samplers
- Monasterium Designs
- Mountain Aire Designs
- MTV Designs
- My Big Toe Designs
- Nancy Spruance Designs
- Needle Bling Designs
- Needle’s Notion
- Needlemade Designs
- NeedleWork Press
- New York Dreamer
- Nikyscreations
- Nimue
- Nora Corbett
- Northern Expressions Needlework
- Notforgotten Farm
- October House Fiber Arts
- Papillion Creations
- Paradise Stitchery
- Peacock and Fig
- Pegasus Originals
- Pepperberry Designs
- Permin
- Perrette Samouiloff
- Petal Pusher
- Pickle Barrel Designs
- Pine Mountain Designs
- Pineberry Lane
- Pinn Stitch
- Plum Street Samplers
- Poppy Kreations
- Prairie Schooler
- Praiseworthy Stitches
- Primitive Needle
- Primitive Needleworks
- Primrose Needleworks
- Priscilla’s Pocket
- Puckerbrush
- Puntini Puntini
- Queenstown Sampler Designs
- Raise the Roof Designs
- Reflets De Soie
- Rico Designs
- Riverdrift House
- Romy in Austria
- Romy’s Creations
- Ronnie Rowe Designs
- Rosewood Manor
- Rosie and Me Creations
- Rovaris
- Sam Hawkins
- Sampler Cove
- Samplers Not Forgotten
- Samsarah Designs Studio
- Sara
- Satsuma Street
- Scarlett House
- Scattered Seeds Samplers
- ScissorTail Designs
- Seaside Designs
- Seba Designs
- Serenita Di Campagna
- Serenity Stitches
- Shakespeare’s Peddler
- Shannon Christine Designs
- Shepherd’s Bush
- Ship’s Manor
- Silver Creek Samplers
- Silver Lining
- Sister Lou Stitches
- Sisters and Best Friends
- Stacy Nash Primitives
- Stickideen von der Wiehenburg
- Stitch in Time Designs
- Stitch N Needs
- Stitch People
- Stitcharoo Gifts
- Stitcherhood
- Stitching Parlor
- Stitching Studio
- Stitching with the Housewives
- Stitchworks
- Stoney Creek
- Subversive Cross Stitch
- Sue Hillis
- Summer House Stitche Workes
- Susanamm
- Sweetheart Tree
- TechScribes
- Tellin Emblem
- Tempting Tangles
- Teresa Kogut
- The Bee Cottage
- The Blue Flower
- The Constant Stitcher
- The Drawn Thread
- The Nebby Needle
- The Pinkeep
- Theron Traditions
- Thistles
- Threadwork Primitives
- Tidewater Originals
- Tiny Modernist
- Told in a Garden
- Tralala
- Tree of Life Samplings
- Treetrunk Designs
- Trellis and Thyme
- Trilogy
- Twin Peak Primitives
- Twisted Threads
- Ursula Michael Design
- Val’s Stuff
- VeeandCo
- Vickery Collection
- Victoria Sampler
- Victorian Rose Needlearts
- Vintage NeedleArts
- Waxing Moon Designs
- Whispered by the Wind
- White Willow Stitching
- With My Needle
- With Thy Needle and Thread
- Workbasket
- Works by ABC
- Xs and Ohs