Designer Spotlight: Cross Stitch Traveler

If you’re looking for some funny cross stitch patterns to stitch for your snarkiest friend (even if that’s you!) you need to check out Cross Stitch Traveler on Etsy.

You’ve got to love a storefront where the “snarky-funny” category is 560 items deep (compared to a total of 961 items in the whole store as of this writing).

I couldn’t possibly give you a full rundown in the few hundred words I have here, but there’s lots of fun sweary, sarcastic, work humor and generalized snarkiness.

If there’s a cat involved you know I’ll find it so I had to share “She believed she could, but her cat was asleep on her lap so she didn’t.” This one features a great blend of sass, pretty flowers and a cat, and it also just looks fun to stitch. It uses 11 colors in a size of 123 by 131 stitches. That comes out to 8.75 by 9.5 inches, or 22.3 by 23.8 cm on 14 count fabric.

But of course there’s lot of other great stuff beyond the snarky and funny section, so let’s check some of that out, too.

In the holiday section you’ll find Christmas and Halloween patterns, and there’s still some snark in here, as well as cats in pumpkins and wrapped up in Christmas lights. There are pretty flowers and plants and a few floral frames you can use to stitch up your own sentiments such as a birth or wedding announcement or just add your own text of whatever sort.

The quotes section overlaps a bit with snark (and you’ll find some fun workplace humor here if you want to stitch up something for a Secret Santa or other office gift exchange) but also has some sweet and funny content. And the animals, birds and insects section is filled with cats, butterflies and bees, birds and other creatures (and even a few dogs).

Find all this and more at the Cross Stitch Traveler’s page on Etsy.

[Photo: Cross Stitch Traveler]

Hanukkah is a great reason to pull out your cross stitch fabric and thread and stitch up some fun seasonal cross stitch patterns.

If you have trouble spelling Hanukkah (I know I do!) you’ll want to stitch up the How Do You Spell… project from SKB Cross Stitch Design. This one includes a bunch of different ways to spell the holiday, along with some symbols like a dreidel and menorah. (Technically I think all the ways to spell it are “correct.”) The pattern includes full, fractional and bask titches, and measures 8.5 by 7 inches, or 21.6 by 17.8 cm. It has the date for 2004/5785 but you can easily change the year or leave that part off.

Another project with some fun word play is the Words to Live By chart from Sam Brie Stitches. This one includes Hanukkah related symbols and word presented crossword puzzle style, which is fun to stitch and to display. The design uses 10 colors and measures 74 by 103 stitches. It’s shown worked on 18 count fabric.

I may have shared these before, but the Hanukkah patterns from the Frosted Pumpkin Stitchery are so cute they’re definitely worth sharing again. Happy Hanukkah features a menorah, dreidels, gelt, stars and candles, and it fits in a 6-inch hoop. At 75 by 75 stitches, it comes out to 5.4 inches/13.4 cm on 14 count Aida or 28 count linen. They also have this cute little dreidel stamp cross stitch pattern, which is 39 by 49 stitches, or 2.8 by 3.5 inches (about 7 by 9 cm) on 14 count Aida or 28 count linen.

Works By ABC has a lot of great patterns for Hanukkah, but here are just a couple to get you started. The Rules for Dreidel design is fun for kids and adults and shows the different sides of the dreidel and what it means when you land on them. The stitch count is 62 by 94 and its shown worked on 32 count linen. It calls for three colors. I also like this menorah one, which measures 44 by 49 stitches and uses two colors along with coordinating seed beads. On 32 count linen as shown (equivalent to 16 count Aida) it measures 2.75 by 3.1 inches, or almost 7 by 7.8 cm.

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