Cross Stitch Celebrating Canadian Cities

I love the old of old fashioned travel posters, and translating those kinds of posters into cross stitch is a fun way to commemorate a trip or stitch up your favorite city.

This collection of Canada themed city travel posters from Unique Stitch Crafts would be fun to make in honor of Canada Day or just because you love Canada.

The options are for Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver and Quebec.

Each design includes landmarks of the city, as well as a bit of water in the foreground and a sailboat or two. Which makes me wonder if sailing sailboats is such an iconic activity in Canada, and if it is how I’ve missed that all these years.

In any case, each design is 83 by 112 stitches, which comes out to 6 by 8 inches or 15 by 20.3 cm on 14 count fabric.

The Quebec pattern uses 18 colors, and I assume the others would be similar in the number of colors they include as well. There are whole stitches and back stitches on all of the designs.

Stitch up one for your favorite city or make the set to decorate a whole wall with Canadian goodness.

And if the cities of Canada aren’t your thing, this same designer has other city travel poster style cross stitch patterns including Amsterdam, New York City, Istanbul, Prague, Sydney, Copenhagen, Chicago and Paris to name a few. There are also some for different states and countries like Arizona, Colorado and Alaska, China and Scotland.

There are also some similarly styled projects featuring American national parks like Mammoth Cave, Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon. So there are lots of other options to commemorate your travels in cross stitch, or to stitch up places you live or places you love, so take some time to click through and check out the other patterns, too.

[Photo: Unique Stitch Crafts]

Inkspire Studio Shops offers cross stitch patterns as well as tons of different stitch minders, scissor charms and thread organization tools.

We’ll get to all that, but since we’re mostly here for the patterns, let’s start there.

All of the patterns are in one category (called Inkspire Originals if you’re following along). There are a lot of book-themed projects and more of the designs are bookmarks than anything else. You’ll find trope bookmarks, a Reading Rainbow themed design, flowers and a super cute watercolor set bookmark, to name a few.

And while the book themed projects are by far the most numerous, I wanted to share this super cute pile of vintage Pyrex style bowls. I love the colors on this one and it should be easy to stitch because so much of it is blocks (or bowls) of a single color. This one is only available as a printed pattern, but most of them are digital.

It calls for six colors and comes out 5.6 by 6.9 inches, or 14.2 by 17.5 cm when stitched on 14 count fabric.

In addition to the bookmarks and book themed projects you’ll find a few kitchen projects and some Halloween and Christmas designs as well.

But what this shop is really about is needle minders, and there are tons of them, with all kinds of themes ranging from introverted and snarky to animal themes, food and beverages, retro designs and religious and inspiring needle minders.

If you don’t know about needle minders, these are acrylic with magnets. You stick a magnet to the back of your work, add the needle minder to the front of the work, and then it holds your sewing needle when you’re not stitching. No need for piercing your fabric or losing your needle between stitching sessions.

She also makes charms you can attach to your scissors (or use as a stitch marker if you’re a knitter or crocheter), inventory and project trackers and bags large and small to hold works in progress and other supplies. She’s also got a great collection of vintage cross stitch patterns and kits, so check out all the fun goodies at Inkspired Studio Shops.

[Photo: Inkspire Studio Shops]

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