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]

As a knitter, I love a good sheep motif, so let’s take a look at some cute sheep cross stitch patterns.

If you want to stitch a little sheep, this mini square from Good Dog Needleworks is a nice choice. It uses just three colors and measures 32 by 32 stitches. That’s 2.2 inches or about 5.5 cm square if you stitch it on 14 count fabric.

I also love these two little sheep, which you can stitch together or in individual hoops and shown. The designs are form Threadbound Art and use six colors. They are slightly different in size, with one being 21 by 17 stitches and the other 21 by 20. They fit in four inch frames if you work them on 14 count fabric.

You can stitch a sweet sheep bookmark with this design from Kits by SA Stitch. This is not for the person who doesn’t like back stitch, because there’s a lot of that here, but it is really cute. It measures 30 by 91 stitches and uses 10 colors. That will make your bookmark about 2.4 by 6.5 inches, or 6 by 16.5 cm on 14 count fabric.

Stitch a pretty scene of sheep in a meadow with this design from Motok Nytok. It uses 21 colors and the design is 99 by 73 stitches. On 14 count fabric that makes it about 7.07 by 5.21 inches, or 17.96 by 13.24 cm.

This yarn full of cross stitch sheep has a bit of a knitting twist because the sheep all look like they have sweaters on. The design is from Soda Stitch Design and it measures 179 by 216 stitches. The full design uses 27 colors. On 14 count fabric it will work out to 12.78 by 15.42 inches, or 32.48 by 39.19 cm.

Another great one with a knitting theme is this one where the wool is coming off the sheep and straight onto the needles. This one is from Happy Cross Stitchers and uses 12 colors. The pattern is 137 by 137 stitches, which comes out to 9.7 inches or 24.86 cm square on 14 count fabric. This would be a fun one to stitch for the knitter in your life (even if that is you).

Or you can stitch the field of sheep of a knitter’s dreams with the Happy Sheep chart from Charts and Stuff. These per-colored sheep can be stitched as shown or worked in any colors you like. The eyes are French knots but you can just stitch them in white if you’d rather.

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