A couple of years back me and a few friends starting having a fairly regular meet ups to have some snacks, drinks and do some crafting. At crafternoon number one, I learned something about cross stitch... that you don't use all 6 strands of embroidery silk (who knew!!). I'd not done any cross stitch since I was little but I had taken one of my drawings and used an online tool to convert it to a cross stitch pattern. 
Crafternooning