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I'm blown away by Victoria's work, of NeedlePopCrafts. We're so lucky to be able to offer her Barbara Kruger piece as a Special Deluxe kit, with 8 skeins of DMC floss! For each kit sold, $7.00 will be donated to The Brigid Alliance. Here's her story: My mom taught me how to cross stitch in middle school, but I didn’t really become serious about it as a hobby until recently (mostly to offset the existential dread of terminally online millennial-hood). Last year I fell in love with that trend of miniaturizing classic paintings and wanted to see if I could design my own versions...

Meet the creator of the Octopus pattern you love! And many more patterns available in our PDF shop (so check back!). I found the octopus on Instagram and, when it made me laugh out loud, I knew I wanted to share it with you and she was game! Here's her story: Hey!  My name is Chrissy and I am the stitcher/creator behind stitchcraftByFwass!   Fwass is the resurrection of an old nickname, it's as funny to say as it is to spell.  I live in the Great White North otherwise known as Canada, on an Island in the West coast of British...

Rosalie and Douglas Gale are the inventors of Shower Art - clever waterproof art you can hang in your shower with a suction cup. They've been making Shower Art since 2008 and have become the very best Shower Art makers in the whole Pacific NW, probably even the world. This dynamic duo owns two retail stores in Seattle: Ugly Baby in the historic Pike Place Market and Monster in the Ballard neighborhood. Both stores sell the work of independent artists – Ugly Baby has a special focus on D.I.Y. craft kits  & enamel pins (aside from the full Ugly Baby line) and Monster features the work of...

Part sewing studio, part fabric and yarn shop, gather here, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts is a one-of-a-kind stitch lounge, created to cater to all fiber craft goals. We're big fans of this magical place and asked owner and founder Virginia B. Johnson to tell us more behind creating one of the best craft stores in the country. Tell us about the origins of gather here--when did you open and why?  gather here opened on February 19, 2011. In 2010 I wrote a business plan for a "stitch lounge" inspired by the places I had visited over the years. Whenever I went...