A few years ago it was all about knitting. 'Stitch and bitch' groups were cropping up all over the US and the UK, Rachel Matthews and her Cast Off clan were knitting on London's tubes and getting ...

I mainly use DMC embroidery floss. For DMC No. 5 and No. 8 and for linen thread, I embroider with a single strand.

Call this the home-ec decade — when knitting became cool, you had to know embroidery wouldn’t be far behind. True, you don’t read much yet about celebrities gathering for stitch-fests, but you might, ...

Knitting, embroidery and handmade creations made stitch by stitch carry something no machine ever could. Some pieces here took months of quiet evenings to finish. Others started as a simple idea — a ...

With his bald head and tattooed triceps, Jamie Chalmers is an unlikely advocate for the delicate art of cross-stitch, but the 42-year-old is a self-styled kingpin of contemporary embroidery. Mr X ...

Penang-based retired teacher Choong Lay Khuan turns to patchwork to keep busy during the pandemic. Photo: The Star/Chan Boon Kai PETALING JAYA: Since the start of the pandemic and numerous movement ...