‘I do it avidly, in the evening, watching television,’ the Countess of Hopetoun tells me. ‘At home, although not in the summer, watching the television,’ agrees Romilly, Lady McAlpine. They are ...

Beth Gantz is poking holes in a preconceived notion about a crafty leisure activity. Gantz owns Stitches Etc., on Dover Center Road in Bay Village, a supplier of needlepoint, and cross-stitch ...

To cross-stitch your nudibranch, you need to make a small cross of embroidery thread to match every coloured square on the pattern. Choose a square roughly in the middle of the nudibranch pattern and ...