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 ...

Ms. Rohr, 36, learned cross-stitch from her mother as a child ... Centuries ago, girls used needlework to practice the alphabet. Pioneer women in the United States documented their history ...

Free-motion quilting, preloaded alphabets, and hundreds of stitches—today’s sewing machines do more than stitch in a straight ... you do amazing things with a needle and thread.

The artist of this piece, and dozens of other needle ... stitch were Victorian-era samplers: strips of linen where crafters could practice their basic stitches, often containing the alphabet ...

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Elizabeth Redleaf is in the business of keeping hands — and minds — busy at her new needlepoint store in Sag Harbor. The Splendid Stitch is a "full-service shop that provides everything you ...