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Designer Spotlight: Box and Fox

January 24, 2024 by Sarah White

When I look at the designs of Box and Fox on Etsy, the first words that come to mind are lush and floral.

This designer has more than 1,000 (1,000!) patterns on their page, so I certainly didn’t look at all of them, but I still stand by that assessment of their work and almost no matter where you look in their pattern categories you will find the same thing.

I think the word lush applies to the fullness of the designs and the color choices used. I feel like there’s more jewel tones and darker, more saturated colors than you often see in cross stitch designs. There are pastels and even monochromatic designs, too, but there’s just something about these — they’re pretty, colorful, modern designs (with some more vintage designs thrown in, too) that look like they’d be a lot of fun to stitch.

And I mention floral because when I visited there were a lot of floral designs on the front page, but there’s also just a lot of flowers and plants in these designs. You’ll find them with cats. And with (or on) butterflies. In large scale projects and minis. A lot of the vintage designs are florals, too.

There are a few seasonal designs for the new year (including a few Chinese zodiac animals), Valentine’s Day and Christmas. There are also several designs related to astrological signs (including a set with the signs as cats, which are super cute).

It was really hard for me to pick the pattern I wanted to share in a photo, which I guess is a good sign that there’s a lot of great stuff there! But I came back to this floral design that looks like sunflowers and echinacea or coneflower plants. It’s not as bold in color as some of the other ones but I still really like it!

This design is 120 by 140 stitches and uses 8 colors. It’s 8.5 by 10 inches (or 21.7 by 25.4 cm) when stitched on 14 count fabric.

[Photo: Box and Fox]

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Make Your Cross Stitch into an Iron On Patch

A while back I made a little rainbow cross stitch pattern and I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do with it, so I turned it into a patch. My idea was that it could be used on a jacket or backpack, or you could add a pin to the back and wear it temporarily on a shirt or elsewhere. 

But what if you want to make your design more permanent? Is it possible to turn a piece of cross stitch into an iron-on design?

It turns out yes, it is, and Sirious Stitches has done it so I didn’t have to try to figure it out on my own. 

The way they did it was by using HeatnBond, an iron-on adhesive that attaches fabrics without sewing. There was still sewing involved to finish the edges of the cross stitch fabric and make it look like a purchased patch. The post shows how to do this by hand or with your sewing machine. (I just did blanket stitch edging on mine, which doesn’t look like a “real” patch but is also a lot faster.)

Once you have the patch prepared it’s a pretty easy matter of using the fusible adhesive to the back of the patch so you can then iron it onto whatever jacket, pair of jeans, bag or whatever else you might want to add it to. 

I guess I’m a little paranoid about the washability of cross stitch projects, though you could hand wash anything with an iron-on cross stitch patch as you might need to with a purchased iron-on patch, anyway. But this does look really cool and is a great option if you know you want to permanently add a cross stitch patch to a garment of bag. 

Get the full tutorial over at Sirious Stitches. Would you add an iron-on cross stitch patch to something? I’d love to hear what you would use this technique for!

[Photo: Sirious Stitches]

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