Issue 17 of XStitch Magazine is packed with Adventure! We’ll take you from your front door to the farthest reaches of space and everywhere in between!

Climbing Goat Designs - Love Surfing
Climbing Goat Designs – Love Surfing
Doodlecraft Designs - Can You Master Mancala
Doodlecraft Designs – Mancala
FiddlesticksAU - A Most Important Lesson
FiddlesticksAU – X Never Marks The Spot
Kate Spiridonova - Travelling Companion
Kate Spiridonova – Travelling Companion

No matter if you like the great outdoors or you’re a staycation fan, there’s something in this issue that will set you forth on a stitching saga!

Lord Libidan - Visit Mars
Lord Libidan – Visit Mars
Marina Bolmini - Kerouac Calling
Marina Bolmini – Kerouac Calling
Mr X Stitch - Get Thee Hence
Mr X Stitch – Get Thee Hence
Peacock & Fig - Adventure for Introverts
Peacock & Fig – Adventure for Introverts

We welcome Russian designer Kate Spiridonova to the XStitch family and while our Designer Discourse this issue is with none other than Julie “Subversive Cross Stitch” Jackson! In total we’ve got 15 original patterns from seven countries including Tiny Modernist from Canada and FiddlesticksAU from Australia!

We’ve got lots of helpful travel information in the mag as well, including Kirsty “ExtremeXStitch” Torrance’s top tips for stitching on planes and the most stylish way to pimp your passport, and we’ve got an excellent couple of manbroiderers to showcase as well!

PyroDogPins - Into The Woods
PyroDogPins – Into The Woods
SewModStitches - Adventure Awaits
SewModStitches – Adventure Awaits
Stitchsperation - Let's Get Lost
Stitchsperation – Let’s Get Lost
Tiny Modernist - Go Your Own Way
Tiny Modernist – Go Your Own Way

This issue has charts in two formats – Colour Blocks & Symbols and Symbols only – to make it easier for you to follow them, and because it’s an interactive PDF you can click between sections in the mag, and click on links to the designers and to our collaborative YouTube playlist!

Cross Stitch might be a relaxing pastime but with this issue we’re ramping up the excitement, so don’t delay, get your copy today!

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