Older rooms don’t need grand renovations to feel alive again. They need stories. A tiny square of colour on the armchair, a stitched word above the kettle, a border of flowers that whispers: someone ...

Call it subversive stitchery. Alternative embroidery. Today’s home samplers include everything from Kanye West tweets to tattoo designs. Jamie Chalmers, a burly, bearded fellow who lives in Bedford, ...

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Cross-stitching is a pastime that many people find satisfying and beneficial for its calming and imaginative attributes, and the end result can noticeably improve any room’s aesthetic. Nevertheless, ...

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 ...