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Who said cross stitch was boring? (Picture: G.L. Booker/Kansas City Star/MCT/Getty) If you need a new hobby look no further because cross stitch is what all the cool kids are doing. Over time cross ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some days, crafting just makes sense. Not only do you (hopefully) make a beautiful final product to put on display, but the ...

She spends hours hunched over a piece of cloth, her thin, bony hands sewing with precision through its tiny patterned holes. Her strained eyes, squinting and blinking, remain focused. And this she ...

“X” marks the spot, or so the saying goes. For Pat Athanas, of Hyde Park, the phrase could be a life motto. As a lifelong cross-stitcher, Athanas has been “marking the spot” for as long as she can ...

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 ...

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