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]
