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Cross Stitch Moustache Ring

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I know it’s silly, but I love that Geico commercial where the three guys do goofy things with their cell phones. The bro-stache line gets me every time.

So, when I saw Sarah Fordham’s MaMagasin shop on etsy, I was delighted with her Mushtache ring, especially since I don’t have a cool cell phone to play with. Now, I too can have a bro-stache on hand at any time.

Check out Sarah’s etsy shop for more delightful stitchy goodness on earrings, necklaces, hair pins and more. I also like her Sieve Boob piece!

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Comments

  1. I love that commercial too! LOL! It makes me laugh out loud every time. I love when the one guy gets his foot stuck in the chair! The ring is so cute! Thanks for sharing!

  2. Having danced around many an office I can relate to guy getting his foot stuff in the chair! I love that commercial too!!!

    Thanks Connie! and Welcome to Craft Gossip!!!

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Cross Stitch Cards for All Occasions

I have never stitched a greeting card, but I kind of like the idea of it. It’s a card and a gift all in one, and hopefully one the recipient will hang onto for years to come. 

This collection of easy and colorful greeting card cross stitch patterns from Susan Bates (via Gathered) are a great place to start if you want to stitch your own greeting cards. 

These text-based designs cover a lot of card-sending events, such as:

  • get well soon
  • happy birthday
  • thank you
  • thinking of you
  • congratulations
  • anniversary
  • new home
  • good luck

The lettering is done in gradients and there are other details like hearts and stars, a house key and a gift, depending on the text. There are full cross stitches and back stitch on all of the cards, and they use 15 colors for the cross stitching and six for the back stitching (and just two colors are used for both, so it’s 19 colors total). 

The designs vary a bit in size but the biggest one is 52 by 67 stitches, which comes out to 3.75 by 4.75 inches or 9.5 by 12 cm when worked on 14 count fabric or 28 count evenweave. The text suggests beads are also used in the patterns but there’s no note of them in the key, so go wild and add some beads if you like. 

Designs are worked on a price of 6 by 8 inch/15 by 20 cm fabric and then mounted to a card with a colorful baking piece of card stock behind it. This is easy to assemble with whatever cardstock greeting cards you have on hand.

You can get the free charts as a PDF from Gathered. 

Have you ever stitched your own greeting cards? I’d love to hear about it, or let me know if these inspire you to try. 

[Photo: Susan Bates via Gathered]