We want to be your cross stitch heroes, and our latest issue proves our commitment to this. Ever had a cross stitch magazine that has two halves?

Oh yes! Issue 5 is Heroes and Villains and we’ve got two front covers from Otterly In XStitches and Leah Emery, and that’s just the start of the awesomeness!

  • Otterly In XStitches - Super, Girl
    Otterly In XStitches – Super, Girl
  • Mathysphere - Tiny Heroes
    Mathysphere – Tiny Heroes
  • Ellen Schinderman - Excelsior
    Ellen Schinderman – Excelsior
  • Tom Katsumi - Bayard Rustin
    Tom Katsumi – Bayard Rustin

Many of our fifteen designers responded to the theme by making patterns of their heroes, like Ellen Schinderman‘s homage to Stan Lee or Tom Katsumi‘s beautiful blackwork portrait of activist Bayard Rustin!

Yet some of the designers chose to explore their dark sides, like Peacock & Fig or PyroDogPins whose humorous design is perfect for the comic book geek in your life!

Once again, we’ve three other newcomers in this issue! Stitchsperation invites you to dominate you day, DemonMonkeyCrafts gives you the chance to stitch the classic Frankenstein’s monster design and The Witchy Stitcher denies the devil!

We have an amazing artist profile featuring Tanja Boukal and so much more good reading – it is the stuff of legend!

Get Issue 5 in digital format, for immediate download as an interactive PDF. And if you decide to go fully digital with us, there are many more issues to enjoy including our legendary Mixtape issues which have no theme, just kickass cross stitch designs!

And don’t forget our collaborative YouTube playlist, chosen by the magazine contributors –  they’re stitching heroes with excellent taste!

If you want to be the one of the first to get new issues, be sure to subscribe to our digital edition so that you can get another XStitch experience every quarter! And don’t forget that we’ve got an email newsletter that you can sign up to – there might even be a discount code attached to that if you’re lucky!

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