Get embroidering

The best place to learn how to cross stitch is by asking someone you know, so try your gran or your Great Aunt Sally/Gert/Lettice.

However if your gran is more into the X factor than Xing, check out these people who’ll get your inspired and show you how.

Sublime Stitching - step by step guides
The stitching cow - How to video from down under
Subversive Cross Stitch - Buy kits to stitch naughty notes, plus animated how tos
Craftser - Ideas, articles and whats going on in your city
Embroidery as Art - Ideas to get you thinking outside the embroidery hoop
Feeling stitchy - More embroidery inspiration
Radical cross stitch - Cross Stitch gets political
Sprite Stitch - Crafty recreations of video games.
Craft Ideas from the home of all things crafty
Mr X Stitch - posts about people who are pushing boundaries of the threadiverse
Urban Threads - Download machine and hand embroidery designs
The Make Lounge - Workshops and a lovely shop
Manbroidery - Nothing girly about these stitchers