Designer Spotlight: Artmishka Cross Stitch

Artmishka Cross Stitch is an Etsy shop based in Italy with lots of whimsical and colorful designs and an emphasis on animals, flowers and landscapes. Let’s take a closer look!

The animal section is by far the largest, and it includes everything from realistic birds to cartoony cats, a set of little chick ornaments for Easter and a blackwork butterfly, to name a few. There are little animals in clothes and scarves, and this sweet folk art style owl in modern colors.

This one (and lots of them, really, I think) was designed as nursery decor, and it calls for 10 colors, which you can of course change up to suit your decor, nursery or otherwise. The design is 95 by 95 stitches, which comes out to about 7 inches or 18 cm square on 14 count fabric or 28 count evenweave stitched over two strands.

Another large category is flowers, which includes birth month flower designs, flowers that look hand drawn and colored, floral wreaths with teapots and wedding floral cross stitch designs.

The sampler section includes a variety of small patterns, images with words, colorful geometric and floral designs, and a few holiday patterns. Christmas designs include stamps, Christmas trees, stocking, snowmen and a cute box of snowflake shaped Christmas cookies in a box with a mug of hot chocolate, to name a few designs.

There are also a fair number of designs in both the landscape and cottage categories. These include iconic landmarks and colorful sunsets, and buildings from beach houses to a mushroom cottage, book shop and a cottage with flowers bursting out of the roof. There’s also a section called girl, which has designs of a little girl in different outfits and situations and some other characters.

Other categories on the site with smaller numbers of patterns include boy designs, princesses, plants, hobby themed designs (sewing, knitting, baking), art and bookmarks. There are also a handful of cross stitch kits, all of the little girl character.

Check out all of the fun designs at Artmishka Cross Stitch.

[Photo: Artmishka Cross Stitch]

I don’t know why the designer chose to call this design funny, but I guess that’s their business. This Unicorn funny cute magic animal free cross stitch pattern from Tango Stitch has a lengthy name but looks like a good potential use for all your leftover threads from other projects.

This unicorn is filled with all sorts of designs, from stripes and flowers to hearts and waves and things I’m not sure how to interpret. You certainly aren’t likely to get bored stitching this one because there’s a lot going on!

As shown it uses 13 colors, but I’ll bet you could make it even more colorful if you wanted to because there are colors that repeat in different places across the chart that you could change to different colors.

It’s plenty colorful as it is, though, and would be a great project to stitch for someone who loves fantasy and lots of colors. Or leave off the horn and make it for a horse lover who also enjoys lots of color. Either way it’s a fun project for you and for them.

One thing that’s nice about this project, too, is that it only uses full cross stitches, so while it looks complicated it’s just a matter of following the chart, there aren’t any difficult techniques, partial stitches or even back stitching involved in this project.

And even if you got off count a little bit I doubt anyone would notice because there’s so much going on here.

The design is 111 by 111 stitches, which comes out to almost 8 inches or 20 cm square when stitched on 14 count fabric. It’s shown on white cross stitch fabric but I think it would be really pretty on light blue, too. Or you could coordinate it with the unicorn’s hair, or use whatever color you have on hand.

Grab a copy of the free chart from Tango Stitch.

[Photo: Tango Stitch]

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