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Book Review: Cross Stitch Celebrations: Graduation

March 31, 2025 by Sarah White

Through the years I have shared a lot of cross stitch patterns for a lot of different occasions, but one thing I haven’t shared a lot of is cross stitch patterns related to graduation. Which is weird, because it’s a big deal, just the kind of thing you might want to commemorate in stitching.

While I’m on the hunt for some more graduation cross stitch patterns to share, check out Cross Stitch Celebrations: Graduation by Mollie Johanson. This book includes more than 35 project with a learning or graduation theme, perfect for making gifts for a graduate or a favorite teacher. 

The book includes a quick overview of supplies and instructions for getting started cross stitching, how to read a pattern and how to finish a project. Since there’s a lot that’s customizable in these designs, there are also notes about planning your design and choosing the best fabric for your project. It also includes ideas for how to make the projects extra special for the graduate, from simple things like changing the graduate’s skin and hair color or the color of the gown to adding their name and class of year, using school colors or adding the school name or area of study.

It’s organized into sections with main design elements, borders and mini motifs you can mix and match to make your project. The main elements include a graduation cap and scroll, a graduate in cap and gown (with options for standing, sitting in a wheelchair or tossing their hat), a stack of books, an open laptop and a medal.

Border options are sparkle confetti, ribbons, scrollwork, books, tassels and a ribbon. The mini motifs are things like apples, music notes, a globe, a plant, a painter’s palette and a stethoscope, to name a few, that can be added in based on the graduate’s interests or major. There are also three alphabets with letters and numbers and a set of extra large numbers you can use to add personalization to your designs.

If you need a little more guidance when it comes to what kind of project you want to make, there are also projects in the back of the book including a scroll wall hanging, a mortarboard decoration, a pennant and a greeting card. There are other ideas for gifting cross stitch that aren’t shown as full tutorials but give you ideas including a framed piece of art, a piece to decorate a journal and a bookmark.

If you want to make something special for a graduate in your life, this book has a lot of options and includes encouragement for making the designs your own and altering the person to make it look more like your graduate. This is a fun book that will get a lot of use if you’re in that stage of life where people are graduating around you.

About the book: 96 pages, paperback, 35+ patterns. Published 2023 by Walter Foster Publishing. Suggested retail price $19.99.

 

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Cross Stitch Patterns Fit for a Pool Party

I don’t know why it still surprises me that there are cross stitch patterns available for almost anything you can think of. I wasn’t looking for pool themed cross stitch patterns, but in scrolling around Etsy looking more generally for summer cross stitch patterns, I found a lot of pool patterns so I figured I should share them.

I love the colors in these designs, almost as cool as sliding into the pool on a hot day.

The first one I found was Pool Party by Milky Stitch. It features someone lounging in the pool, someone lounging next to the pool, and some fun accessories you might need for a day at the pool. It uses 20 colors and was designed for 11 count fabric, which means it comes out to 12.2 by 8.2 inches, or 31 by 21 cm.

Pastel Pool from Stitch Me Good Designs looks like it would fit right in with Pool Party on a gallery wall. This one uses seven colors and 14 count fabric and fits in a 7-inch hoop. 

Speaking of gallery walls, if you want a room full of summer sun and pool themed cross stitch, check out this trifecta of pool designs from Craft Bundle Lab. There’s a women floating in a pool with a large hat, a float in a pool and several floats and pool toys in another pool with a fun checkerboard bottom. Each design uses 12 colors and they are about 14.6 inches/37 cm square worked on 14-count fabric.

This designs from Cross Stitchers United shows three people floating in a pool in different ways. This one has cross stitched water, or you can stitch it on blue fabric and save yourself some time. As shown it uses nine colors and is 94 by 94 stitches, which is 6.7 inches or 17 cm square on 14-count fabric.

The Swimmers in a Pool cross stitch pattern from Thread Nova Studios is delightful. It’s stitched with everyone wearing red suits, but you could change up some of them — or even just one of them — to change the look of the project. This one uses 14 colors and is 200 by 200 stitches. That’s about 14.3 inches/36.3 cm on 14 count fabric, though the pattern includes sizing for other stitch counts, too.

And finally the pool pattern from The Lady at Home just makes you wish you could jump right into it. The pool with floats looks super inviting, and it is stitched on 14-count fabric with a finished size of 5 by 7 inches/12.7 by 17.8 cm.

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