Examples from literature

• Marking can be anything from a simple cross-stitch initial to an elaborately worked monogram. 
• She began to work in cross-stitch upon a wreath of tulips and roses. 
• She could do plain sewing and overcast, cross-stitch and hem-stitch. 
• The rug, done in cross-stitch, black ground and design colours, was discovered in a forgotten corner of a shop, its condition so dingy from the dust of ages that only an expert would have recognised its possibilities.