Intrigued by embroidery? Start making your own beautiful ... the thread from your cotton reel. To sew running stitch all you need to do is weave the needle up and down the fabric it will look ...

most embroidery designs use a small number of basic ones. It’s not about how many stitches you know, it’s about what you do ...

To cross-stitch your nudibranch, 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 nudibranch pattern and ...

giant squid-coloured embroidery thread (we used DMC thread and the colours you need are on the pattern, but you can also choose your own colours) cross-stitch fabric (we used Aida 14 count fabric) an ...