Stitch People was started in 2012 as a service-business, designing and hand-stitching customized cross-stitched family portraits. Images of completed portraits began to start cropping up around Pinterest with captions like "Totally want to figure out how to do this!" Thus, phase 2 of Stitch People began. In 2014, Stitch People self-published and released it's first book "Do-It-Yourself Stitch People." We've since sold over 12,000 copies of that book, and have expanded our pattern collections to include "Stitch People Farm Animals," "Stitch People Occupations and Hobbies," "Stitch People United States Armed Forces," and dozens of digital patterns available for purchase and download online. Stitch People is responsible for the popular, and growing cross-stitched family portrait movement that has begun to take the internet by storm!