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Relive your favorite memories of summer with eye-catching quilt-inspired designs, sunny scenes and patriotic patterns, all bursting with fresh colors! Whether you’re at the beach or in your favorite chair, these 26 patterns will keep you stitching all summer long.

  • Celebrate the Fourth of July with Cape Cod Fireworks. A colorful harbor scene captures the spirit of the holiday with fireworks blasting over sailboats and families enjoying the view. This American design features a variety of stitches and beaded accents.
  • Embark on a new stitching adventure with House for a Wife, a Huswif. Tour a stately Elizabethan home with a blooming trellis, fluffy sheep and a vibrant peacock in the first of a new three-part series. Each pattern features unique designs, specialty stitches and textures to make an elegant huswif.
  • Take a peek at the upcoming Christmas Ornaments issue. Get a jump-start on your holiday stitching with nine new, unique ornaments—a sampling of the exciting 70+ ornament collection we have planned for you.
    Plus, you won’t want to miss our “The Sampler Sleuth” feature! This month uncovers the striking statements immortalized in beautiful messages without ink, pen or quill that we can still read centuries later.

 

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Looking for 4th of July decorations? Check these supplies out. 

We also have 100’s of 4th of July Patriotic crafts and 4th of July recipes too.

Looking for more Patriotic Cross Stitch patterns for Memorial day or the 4th of July? Check these charts out on Etsy.

 

Next Pattern:

Have you read?

A Cross Stitch I Spy at the Beach

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]