Designer Spotlight: Climbing Goat Designs

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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Temperature Cross Stitch Patterns

Summer is the time for sweet treats, whether eating them or stitching them. This collection of patterns is full of designs that are good enough to eat. Almost.

This year of ice creams from Simone Balman Art is lots of fun, and you could also stitch up these treats individually if you’d rather. The full piece is 210 by 300 stitches, though it’s not full coverage. It uses 25 colors and comes out to 13.6 by 20.1 inches, or 34.5 by 51.2 cm, as shown on 14 count fabric.

These mini Popsicles from Mariana Gonclaves ART as super sweet and quick to stitch. These would also be a fun border to another summer project. The full design is 43 by 46 stitches, which is 3.1 by 3.3 inches, or 7.8 by 8.3 cm, on 14 count fabric.

Sam X Stitch has this fun sweet treat sampler, which again would be fun to stitch as individual pieces (maybe on napkins?). In all it calls for 18 colors and measures 153 by 153 stitches. That comes out to 10.93 inches or 27.75 cm on 14 count fabric.

Another great sampler is this one with ice cream and other sweet treats from Cute Patterns by Maria. At 119 by 132 stitches total, working the full pattern would be about 8.6 by 9.4 inches, or 22 by 24 cm on 14 count fabric, and it uses 33 colors. You can also stitch individual designs, which range in height from 35 to 45 stitches, and in width from 11 to 28.

This collection of four sundae patterns from Stichrovia would be fun to make for a kitchen or a teen’s room. Each pattern is around 40 by 50 stitches, so they should fit in a four or five inch hoop if worked on 14 count fabric.

Or stitch up one of the treats from Stitch Chart Studio‘s collection of seven ice cream cross stitch patterns. These range in size and in number of colors needed, but most would fit in a five or six in hoop (and one in a four inch hoop).

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