CrossStitcher Magazine

As the name suggests, Cross Stitcher magazine is magazine for cross stitchers. It is available in many newsagents and in many supermarket magazine isles. Per issue, it costs £3.99 and for a subscription paid for by direct debit is £9.98 every three months. The majority of the pages within the magazine are taken up by a number of projects, the design of which include many subjects. The designs include things from Disney, floral designs, seasonal designs (i.e. christmas, valentines day etc), and projects that are ideal for a childs bedroom. All the different designs can be made into a range of different things like cards, bags, cushions and pictures for the ...  Read the complete review

I was taught to cross stitch when I was about 6 years old and as much as I enjoyed it, it is not something which became a regular hobby until now. I was in the newsagents looking for a magazine to read whilst I was doing some babysitting and I saw the craft magazines, the cross stitching ones particularly caught my eye though because they all had wonderful free gifts on them. That night whilst babysitting I began stitchin one of the cover kits and since then I have been an avid cross stitcher. In the bundle of magazines I bought that day, was Cross Stitcher magazine, since that day I have purchased every issue. An issue of Cross Stitcher ...  Read the complete review

Cross Stitcher is a monthly magazine published by Future Publishing. At the time of writing the current price is £3.75 and contains on average around 100 pages and 55 cross stitch designs. It focuses on the hobby of - yep you guessed it - cross stitching! The magazine contains colourful and modern designs from various cross stitch designers. All charts in the magazine are "Cross Stitcher Quality Assured" which means that they have been checked for errors and make the most use out of accents such as fractional stitches, backstitch and french knots (compared to other magazines where the designs look "blocky" because of the use of whole ...  Read the complete review

As an avid cross stitcher, I love the various magazines that are available, and only wish I had the funds available to buy them all, however in order to keep on the right side of the bank manager, I have to limit myself. I have subscribed to Cross Stitcher for the last 7 years or so, and can safely say that it is the best cross stitching magazine by miles. If you, like me, cannot afford to buy them all, then I would seriously recommend making this one the one you buy or subscribe to. What makes it so good? Well, there are the usual things to start with. Each issue has a wealth of projects, some small, some big, and all with clear instructions and pictures. ...  Read the complete review

I have been an on-and-off reader of cross stitcher and many other cross stitch mags for 5 years and a subscriber to cross stitcher for one year. I love the variety of projects that it offers. The 'Over to You' section containing readers contributions is always really interesting. You can see what other people have been stitching and you can request charts that are hard to find, and sell stitching items that you no longer need. As someone who doesn't get the time to stitch as much as I'd like (Isn't that most of us?) I really like dreaming about completing 'the big stitch'. There is one in every issue and it's always something different, it's the largest ...  Read the complete review