Use the needle and embroidery floss to fill in the letters and pictures. The stitching itself is very easy—just make little crosses with the thread. Here's how it changed my body.

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He found a computer program, STOIK, that turns photographs into cross-stitch patterns. The program allowed him to input how big he wanted it and what kind of floss he wanted to use. “It’s my ...