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Book Review – Just CrossStitch

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Freshen your stitching basket with the joy of spring! This latest issue of Just CrossStitch is absolutely bursting with 20+ springtastic floral designs that are guaranteed to brighten your days with vibrant sunniness and warmth.

  • Stitch the spring sunshine into your home with every pull of your needle and floss. You’ll love Elizabeth Spurlock’s welcoming Folk Hello design, which features bright colors to create a heartfelt and bold statement.
  • The best things come in small packages. Showcase hues from every color of the rainbow as you stitch the delightfully diminutive Meadow Pincushions. This pair of pincushions use three strands of floss over one Aida square to provide a palette of rich, deep colors.
  • Celebrate Easter with elegant eggs and whimsical bunnies. The Ornate Easter Egg features stunning jewel tones that are reminiscent of a richly gem-encrusted Faberge egg, while Daisy, a charming yet playful Easter bunny, wishes you a hippity-hoppity Easter with kloster blocks, beads, herringbone stitches and eyelets.

You can download this magazine here.

Looking for more Easter themed Cross Stitch Patterns and Charts? Check these out on Etsy.

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Mini Pumpkins and Jack o’Lanterns to Cross Stitch

I just can’t resist sharing a few more Halloween cross stitch patterns when they are as cute and quick to stitch as these!

This boo cross stitch from Luzatolye was the first little Halloween cross stitch pattern to catch my eye. I love the pumpkin Os! At just 23 by 8 stitches and using four colors, you can stitch it up in no time. On 14 count fabric it measures 1.6 by.5 inches, or about 4 by 1.27 cm. 

Another cutie from the same designer is this jack o’lantern with a witch hat. Another four-color project, this one is 14 by 18 stitches, which is an inch by just a little more than an inch, or around 3 cm square, worked on 14 count fabric. 

If you like your minis a little bit bigger, this jack o’lantern with leaves is from White Protea Art and measures 47 by 28 stitches. That comes out to 3.4 by 2 inches, or 8.5 by 5.1 cm, when stitches on 14 count fabric. It uses nine colors. 

Or there’s also this little cutie from that same designer. I love the little leaf on top of the pumpkin. At 33 by 36 stitches, it comes out to 2.4 by 2.6 inches, or 6 by 6.5 cm, when stitched on 14 count fabric. I think it uses around eight colors. 

Template Love Create also has two mini jack o’lantern cross stitch patterns that I like (I swear I didn’t plan to do two from each of the same designers, it’s just the whimsy of an Etsy search!). There’s one that is more round and one that’s oblong, which I like because it’s different from most of the pumpkin patterns you see. The pattern listings say both are six colors (though they look like four to me) and 28 by 28 stitches, but I don’t think that can be true. Either way they both fit in a 3 inch hoop and would be a super cute little addition to your Halloween decor.