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]

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Cute spooky and fantasy cross stitch patterns is how the designer behind Haunted Frames describes their shop, and I have to agree with them. These designs are cute and Gothic and a little bit spooky all at once. There’s a heavy focus on book themes, which you know I am a fan of, so let’s get into it.

Stopping first in the books section, there are lots of designs that are literally on book shapes, but if you know my love of both books and cats, you’ll know I had to share the Midnight Book Cart cross stitch pattern. As the name suggests it’s a design with a witchy book cart, complete with a spiderweb, bats flying out of a book and what it describes as a ghost cat (though I would have to make a black cat instead of a white one since I have a black cat, and that fits with the vibe).

The design is 65 by 97 stitches and is worked in 17 colors. It’s shown on 16 count fabric, which makes it 4.1 by 6.1 inches, or 10.3 by 15.4 cm.

I also love the winter themed little free library design, which would be perfect to stitch up for the little librarian in your life (or to drop at a neighborhood book space).

Projects with a book theme make up the majority of the patterns that are categorized in this shop, but you’ll want to scroll through all their patterns to see what else is available, since it doesn’t look like everything is in a category. You’ll find castles and dragons, more cats of course, some more obviously Halloween and Christmas themed projects and those that would suit for spooky season or any other time of year.

If cute and dark is your aesthetic, you’ll want to check out all the patterns at www.etsy.com/shop/HauntedFrames, which you can find on Etsy.

[Photo: Haunted Frames]

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