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Designer Spotlight: Climbing Goat Designs

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Climbing Goat Designs is a UK based Etsy shop that seems like it has a little something for everyone. There are tons of Christmas patterns, and also space geek stuff. Temperature projects and cross stitch patterns devoted to lost pets. Mythical creatures and stand up paddleboarding. And that’s just what I saw on the first page. 

When I first looked at this storefront before I sat down to write about it, I noted that I liked the tartan hearts design. And I still do. This set of 9 hearts features stitched versions of classic tartan designs: Black Watch, Thomson Camel, MacQueen, Ramsay Blue, MacLeod, Fraser Hunting Ancient, Royal Stewart, Hamilton Grey and MacKenzie Modern.

Stitch the whole sampler or use an individual heart to decorate a card or another project. The whole piece is 101 by 100 stitches and uses 31 different colors. That comes out to 7.2 by 7.1 inches or 18.3 by 18.1 cm. If you want to stitch an individual heart, each larger heart is 31 by 28 stitches, which makes them around 2 inches/5 cm. 

By far the largest category is Christmas patterns, which range from decorated musical notes to dragons to Christmas cats, trees made out of various things (like knitting supplies, art materials or planets) as well as some more traditional designs. 

Other large categories include astronomy and space, fantasy and rainbows, music, sports and vehicles and animals at home, which gives you a sense of the range of designs. Another big one is cats, dogs, pets and paws, which includes memorial designs and more general pet patterns. 

The page also has a great variety of temperature cross stitch patterns, including space themed projects, hearts and other little icons. They have a variety of stitchalongs including penguins, snowflakes, Hubble telescope images and an animal tree of life. 

And even all that doesn’t cover everything they offer (alphabets! custom birth announcements! zodiac designs!) so head to Climbing Goat Designs on Etsy to check it all out. 

[Photo: Climbing Goat Designs]

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Toy Story Cross Stitch Patterns

I’m going to go ahead and admit that I totally missed Toy Story 4, so it took my by surprise when Toy Story 5 came out, but let’s celebrate with some Toy Story cross stitch patterns. 

This sweet design including Woody, Buzz and Jessie is from The Xstitch Shop, and they actually have a few different Toy Story options. This one says it is for intermediate stitches, probably because of the size and number of colors, but the sales page doesn’t say how big it is or how many colors it uses. It’s still cute, though!

If you’ve got a fan of Jessie in your household, this collection of Jessie themed icons is super cute to stitch. The design is from Mercury Stitches and it measures 97 by 144 stitches. that comes out to 6.9 by 10.3 inches, or 17.6 by 26.1 cm, and uses 11 colors. It has full and half cross stitches, as well as back stitching and French knots. 

Share the love of friendship with this sweet Woody and Buzz heart hands cross stitch pattern from Pixell Patterns. This design uses eight colors and is shown worked on 14 count fabric, but the notes don’t indicate how bit is is (based on a finished project photo, though, it looks pretty big). 

And for the Buzz Lightyear fans, of course we have to have a “To infinity and beyond” pattern, so here’s one from Silver Lake Stitches. This design is super cute on blue fabric, but use whatever you have. It measures 78 by 92 stitches, which comes out to 5.6 by 6.6 inches, or 14.2 by 16.7 cm, on 14 count fabric. It calls for 14 colors. 

Or if you want to go beyond the core three main character toys, check out this project from ThreeOOne Patterns, which includes our main toys as well as Bo Peep and her sheep, Bullseye the horse, the Slinky dog, Rex, Ham, the Potato Heads and an alien. The design is 310 by 80 stitches, which comes out to 21.14 by 3.5 inches, or 53.7 by 8.9 cm, when worked on 14 count fabric. It uses 65 colors. Or pick out your favorite characters to make a smaller project. 

All those characters and a few more are found on the mini Toy Story character sampler from Knotalot UK (only part of which is shown above). This one uses 31 colors and measures 134 by 108 stitches. It includes whole and fractional stitches, as well as back stitching. On 14 count fabric stitching the whole thing would make a project that’s 9.57 by 7.71 inches, or 24.31 by 19.59 cm.