Book Review – Just CrossStitch Halloween

Boo-tiful round-the-clock stitching delights await you within this hair-raising Halloween-themed special issue from Just CrossStitch!

Enjoy exclusive designs guaranteed to deliver hours of creepy, creative Halloween fun as you stitch 64 original projects such as “Boo & Oh Railroad,” “Halloween Greetings” and “Hanging With My Boo.”
Delight in four jam-packed chapters of spook-tacular cross-stitch treats: The Witching Hours, Mysterious Mornings, Spooky Afternoon Adventures and Fright Night.
Whether your preference is friendly ghosts or ghoulish goblins, lurking within are designs for every stitcher and every skill level showcasing nearly every Halloween subject and style!

Projects include fang-tastic framed pieces, pillows, pincushions, door hangers, glass charms, mug wraps and treat bags, along with 33 ornaments to round out this haunting Halloween collection. Don’t miss out on everything you need to create the perfect bone-chilling cross-stitch Halloween — get your copy today!

Looking for more fun Halloween Cross-stitch patterns and charts? Check out these Halloween themed Cross stitch designs on Etsy.

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20 Snow Globe Cross-Stitch Patterns

That headline pretty much describes the Under the Sea cross stitch pattern from Una Buena Pieza, which is covered with shells, fish and other creatures of the sea. It’s not intended to be an I spy, I don’t think, and most of the same kinds of animals are grouped together, but I think it would be fun for someone who didn’t stitch it to look and see what different things they can find within.

The pattern includes turtles, jellyfish, a whale, shark, ray, all sorts of fish and shells and I’m sure other things that I’m not noticing right now. Dolphins! Coral! Seagulls!

It looks like it would be super fun to stitch and fun to have on the wall during the summer months, or even hang in a kid’s room if you know a young one who loves the beach or ocean animals.

The design is 110 by 220 stitches. It comes out to about 8 by 16 inches, or 20 by 40 cm, when stitched on 14 count fabric. It calls for 19 colors.

This design looks great on light blue fabric as shown, but in the pattern listing on Etsy you’ll also see what it looks like on a darker blue and a white fabric, and they all look pretty good so you can use whatever color you like to suit your decor or your idea of what color the “ocean” should be. There’s even a customer photo that looks like it was done on a sort of tie-dyed green fabricc, which is really fun.

However you stitch it, I think this project would go faster than you imagine because there are so many fun little things to stitch. It will be hard to get bored when you can just move on to a different animal or part of the design.

Check out this pattern from Una Buena Pieza on Etsy.

[Photo: Una Buena Pieza]

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