The World of Cross Stitching

Dancing duck

Many of you will have seen the ‘dancing duck’ cross stitch animation on Instagram, and if you haven’t viewed it already, you’ll want to after reading this! We spoke to Stéphane and Juliet, the creators of this unique project, to discover how it came about.

Stéphane is a driver’s license inspector and lives near Paris and Juliet is a recruiter from the south of France. Stéphane tells us how they became friends: “We would have probably never met – and actually have still not yet [in person] – without Instagram and our

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