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 ...

“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” ...

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 ...

Williams, the chef behind Brooklyn’s The Food Sermon, debuts with a vibrant and impressively comprehensive collection of more than 350 recipes for Caribbean fare, drawn from 28 Continue reading » My ...