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On the Web
- Cross Stitch Madness - Offers finishing services for cross stitch. Also Harry Potter personalized cross stitch pictures made to order. Photo-to-stitch conversions.
- The Cross-Stitch-Directory - Resource site with links to cross stitch related sites and free charts on the web.
- Cross-Stitch Magazine Database - Resource for locating cross-stitch designs from US, UK, Australian cross-stitch magazines.
- Cross Stitch Charts - Offers cross stitch designs.
- Happystitchers Cross Stitch Site - Gallery of my cross stitch projects, advise on photocharting, conversion charts (DMC/Anchor, Anchor/DMC), etc
- Katie's Cross Stitch - A personal cross stitch site with photographs, stitch tips and charity fundraising ideas.
- Layden With Stitches - Convert your photos to cross-stitch designs. Elaine Layden shows you her techniques for photo to cross stitch conversion.
- Bonnie's Cross Stitch Zone - A Canadian site specializing in counted cross stitch supplies including fabrics, threads, accessories, kits and ready to stitch blanks.
- Oriental Cross Stitch and Embroidery - Offers cross stitch designs, kits, free patterns and finished work.
- Cross Stitch Art - Features patterns for counted stitching, including Asian, Art Nouveau and Art Deco.
Wikipedia Articles
- Cross-stitch - Cross-stitch is a popular form of counted-thread embroidery in which X-shaped stitches are used to form a picture. Other stitches are also commonly used in cross-stitch, among them ¼, ½, and ¾ stitches and backstitches.
- Cross stitches - Cross stitches in embroidery, needlepoint, and other forms of needlework include a number of related stitches in which the thread is sewn in an x or + shape. Cross stitch has been called "probably the most widely used stitch of all" Gillow, John, and Bryan Sentance: World Textiles, Bulfinch Press/Little, Brown, 1999, ISBN 0-8212-2621-5, p.
- Teresa Wentzler - Teresa Wentzler, American artist and counted cross-stitch designer known especially for her fantasy-inspired designs. She self-publishes her current work through her Montoursville, Pennsylvania-based TW Designworks business (launched in late 1998), however many of her earlier cross-stitch designs are available through Leisure Arts, Inc.
- Mathematics and fiber arts - Mathematical ideas have been used as inspiration for a number of fiber arts including quilt making, knitting, cross-stitch, crochet, embroidery and weaving. A wide range of mathematical concepts have been used as inspiration including topology, graph theory, number theory and algebra.
- Outlander (novel) - Outlander (published in the UK as Cross Stitch), is the first in a series of novels (currently 6) by Diana Gabaldon.