W hat’s immediately striking about a Magnus & Quill embroidery design is the rich texture and abundance of undulating threads. You are urged to lean in, to reach out and touch. That same irresistible curiosity is what set Canadian designer Chantel Christine on her stitching path a few years ago. “It was the thread that sucked me in,” she confesses with a smile. “I was at the craft store and kind of on a whim was like ‘look at all this pretty floss!’ I picked a handful of colours. Of course, when you go embroidery floss shopping you don’t just get one. So I had a fistful and I’m like ‘I don’t even know what to
