Designer Spotlight: Dizzy Digital Craft Co

I plan out my posts ahead of time and sometimes leave myself notes in my planner about why I wanted to write about a particular thing. My note for today’s designer, Dizzy Digital Craft Co, says “Ramadan and cats.”

By the time I made it back to the site, the front page was full of Mother’s Day projects and frogs. But that’s fine, too. There were still some cats to be found (a whole section, in fact), and lots of other fun stuff, too.

These designs are colorful, whimsical, include a lot of flowers and look like lots of fun to stitch. While we’re on he subject of cats, you know I couldn’t resist sharing this design of a black cat in a sweater (since I’m a knitter with a black cat), thought the pattern listing says it’s crochet when it’s clearly knit. The design is 142 by 200 stitches, which comes out to 10.14 by 14.29 inches or 25.76 by 36.29 cm on 14 count fabric. It uses 25 colors. I might just have to make it for my Baron.

Now that we’ve gotten that out of the way, there are plenty of other cute animal cross stitch patterns here, including the aforementioned frogs, dogs, butterflies, some sheep, cows (Highland and regular), and a cute squirrel.

As mentioned there are plenty of Mother’s Day patterns, as well as projects for the nursery and projects inspired by nature, from flowers and mountains to beach scenes and funky mushrooms.

Those Ramadan patterns I mentioned are in a section called cross stitch, which isn’t that helpful but I did manage to find them again. There are lovely designs with a mosque and a crescent moon. In addition in this section you’ll find bookmarks, a few designs with people and a place where you can order a custom made cross stitch pattern.

Check out all these colorful goodies and more at the Dizzy Digital Craft Co shop on Etsy.

[Photo: Dizzy Digital Craft Co]

I don’t usually cross stitch text or add words to my cross stitch projects. Sometimes I will sign things using basic block lettering worked in backstitch (luckily my initials are pretty easy to stitch), but if you give your cross stitch as a gift or otherwise want to personalize it, adding text is a great way to go.

But if a project didn’t already come with text, and you don’t want to draw your own, you’ll need a good cross stitch font that you can use for your project.

I like collecting fonts that are easy to read and to stitch and that would be good for lots of different uses.

For example I really like this bold alphabet font from Cross Stitch with Art, which has both capital and lowercase letters as well as numbers if you need them for dates or other information on your design. The capital letters are an inch/2.5 cm/14 stitches tall, which makes it easy to figure out how much space you need to leave for them. It’s a nice, basic, readable serif font you can use for lots of project.

If you want a script font that’s still really readable, check out Magic Calligraphy from Soft Pattern Designs. This hand drawn font has upper case letters around 28 stitches tall, with lower case letters mostly being around 20 stitches (though the ones that go up or down a lot like f, p and y are bigger). The numbers also vary a bit in size but range from 25 to 29 stitches.

Sometimes you just want a classic font that looks like sports lettering, and in that case you’re going to need Varsity, an all caps font from Stitch Mod. This one has letters that are 21 stitches tall, and it includes capital letters and numbers. But there are definitely times this one would come in handy!

Another sometimes useful and really cute font is this alphabet block letters alphabet from Stitch Junction. These letters are all upper case and look like classic building blocks, and there are also numbers available. This one would be perfect for a birth announcement project or some other cross stitch for the baby’s room.

And if that’s not enough for you, check out this post with 85 free cross stitch fonts for you to try!

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