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

The Dover Pocketbook Collection book Cross Stitch Flowers is a collection of floral designs by Gerda Bengtosson, reflecting the handworks of the Danish embroidery tradition. Haandarbejdets Fremme, known elsewhere as Danish Design, was a movement begun in 1928 to preserve and promote embroidery in the country.

The book includes 26 charts and a section on materials and basic instructions. The patterns are shown in a color chart on one page and include a thread palette and section for notes on the opposite page. The general descriptions of colors are used, such as dull blue green or earth color, rather than giving a DMC number or the code from a different thread company. This does allow you more wiggle room to use what you have but you may not necessarily end up with the same look the designer was going for.

That doesn’t really matter, though, and there are no photos of the finished stitched designs, just the charts, so it’s easy to go your own way and choose whatever colors you like. (There’s also space in the palette or in the notes section where you could write down the colors you use in case you want to duplicate the design in the future.)

The charts are large and have dark lines every 10 stitches or rows doe ease in reading. They look hand colored, and they only use full stitches so they should be relatively easy to stitch even though some of them are big. It would have been nice for the patterns to say approximately how big the finished design would be on different sizes of fabric so you know what you’re getting into without having to do the math yourself.

The patterns show a variety of flowers, from common plants like daisies and dandelions to snow gentian, plantain and Iceland poppy, to name a few. Most designs have around 8-10 different colors.

I feel like a lot of stitchers would want to see stitched versions of projects before they start stitching, but if you’re OK with just looking at the chart to decide what you want to stitch, this is a nice collection of floral patterns to stitch and a bare-bones book that allows you to focus on the charts without a lot of frills.

About the book: 64 pages, paperback, 26 patterns. Published 2025 by Dover Publications. Suggested retail price $9.99.

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