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 ...

Celebrating 10 years since the original publication of “Subversive Cross Stitch,” sassy sewing queen Julie Jackson is back with an anniversary edition, available Feb. 17, that includes 17 new patterns ...

Most people would be offended to see a gift they’d handmade pop up at a yard sale. But Julie Jackson was thrilled when she saw a familiar, framed cross-stitch appear at Stephen Colbert’s televised ...

“Nasty women” will find much to cross-stitch in Rohr’s sharp-needled pattern book of designs for “craftivist” feminists. After a childhood of traditional cross-stitching, Rohr began her “subversive” ...

Boasting the cliche “bless this house” or the obscure “not all those who wander are lost,” cross-stitch has adorned every type of fabric-based decor from kitchen towels to pillows. Characterized by ...