Multicrafter extraordinaire!

Creating crafty videos, patterns and general internet waffle for your enjoyment.

Let's make all the things, together!

Check out my shop or some snazzy videos!

Michelle, a pale-skinned white woman with glasses and long dark hair, holding up an embroidery hoop and smiling mischievously at the camera

About Me

Hello, I'm Michelle May

Michelle is standing in front of two white Ikea bookcases full of colourful and inspiring craft supplies like embroidery floss, yarn and fabric. She's wearing a mustard yellow crocheted cardigan and looking very proud of the whole setup!

a.k.a. The Giddy Stitcher because I love to do all of the crafts, but especially the stitchy ones!

I've been crafty all my life, and learned to knit and crochet in 2013 followed by cross stitch in 2015. But which craft truly has my heart? ALL OF THEM.

In 2021 I took the plunge and started a YouTube channel covering all things fibre crafts from the perspective of an autistic "square peg", and have built an engaged community of other neurodivergent folks, social outcasts and generally anyone who enjoys that sort of company!

So what can you expect from me?

Crafty videos on mostly cross stitch, knitting & crochet
Cross stitch patterns (including Ko-Fi member-exclusive freebies!)
A Discord server full of socially awkward crafting nerds
General chronically-online craftposting all over the internet

VIDEOS

Crafty Nonsense

Cross stitch tools & supplies - What's worth your money?

Crochet for beginners // Everything you need to know about crochet

I tried every free cross stitch pattern converter so you don't have to!

Knitting socks - everything you need to know!

Q-Snap Tutorial // Everything You Need To Know

Is macrame hard? Trying a macrame kit to find out!

Making a DIY floss drops storage system!

How to sew a cross stitch grime guard (in under 10 mins!)

Find all of my videos on:
YouTube or PeerTube

Shop

Nifty Patterns

View all of my patterns on Ko-Fi

Gallery

Cool Makes

A knitted crescent shawl in variegated purple and blue yarn, worn scarf-style by a tailors dummy.

A cross-stitched Halloween biscornu in white, grey and orange on black fabric. It has a repeating pattern of pumpkins, ghosts and bats.

A pair of knitted socks in wildly variegated, very bright blue and green yarn that obscures the stitch pattern but it very fun.

Closeup on the collar of a home sewn shirt, made of red fabric with a pattern of Christmassy dogs.

Angled closeup of a cross stitch project that says 'Keep making cool stuff'

An adorably cute, chonky little needle felted ghost with a happy smile. His name is Sebastian.

A purple velvet dress on a tailors dummy. It's knee length, with long flouncy sleeves and a boat neck.

A cross stitch project with a cute cartoony frog character surrounded by the text 'embrace frog, frog is friend'.

A crocheted lace crop top in all black, made from repeating hexagonal lace motifs joined together.

A Eurovision-themed cross stitch project in a hoop, standing on a bookshelf. It says 'NO RULES!' and features a pair of cutoff denim shorts on an old fashioned button like the ones you'd find in Windows 95.

CONTACT ME

Get in Touch

Professional enquiries are welcome at enquiries [at] thegiddystitcher.com.

If you'd just like to chat, request a video, ask a question about a project I've been working on, anything at all you're welcome to email as above, connect with me on socials as below, or join our lovely Discord community where I hang out most days!