Designer Spotlight: Dots and Spots Shop

Dots and Spots Shop on Etsy has a lot of pop culture cross stitch designs and kits, as well as covering animals, holidays, and more.

The biggest category (other than kits, which we’ll get back to in a minute) on the shop is movies and TV, which from a quick glance has an emphasis on horror and Harry Potter. There’s a stack of Stephen King novels, a realistic looking zombie, a bunch of old school horror movie villains, and some Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and more.

There’s a separate category for cartoons and fairy tales, which is heavy on Disney and Winnie the Pooh, along with a bit of Sonic and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

One design that caught my eye is this collection of movie cars, which includes cars from Ghostbusters, Jurassic Park and Wayne’s World to name a few. This one is available as a pattern and a kit, which could be a good deal if you don’t already have the 36 colors needed for this project. It measures 422 by 245 stitches, and comes out to a little more than 30 by 17.5 inches, or 76.6 by 44.5 cm on 14 count fabric. There are a couple of versions of this kind of design, too, so you can hunt around for your favorite movies, or even mix and match between patterns.

In addition to all the pop culture, you’ll find animals ranging from a super realistic jellyfish to cartoon sheep; collections of plants, mushrooms, dinosaurs and dogs; a whole section of mostly funny cat patterns; and a section called “other lovely patterns” that includes geometric designs, optical illusions and more.

Other categories include Halloween, Christmas, comics, food and drinks and more.

And as mentioned earlier, many of the patterns are available as kits, which include the printed pattern, thread and fabric. On many patterns you can choose the fabric count if you have a preference. It should be noted the shop is in Ukraine so I don’t know how long shipping takes to other countries, but if you really love these designs and want all the supplies at once it’s worth checking into.

See all their designs at Dots and Spots Shop.

[Photo: Dots and Spots Shop]

I started writing this one as a designer spotlight kind of post, and then I realized when I was almost done with it that I had actually featured this designer before. It was in late 2024, so I’ll forgive myself for forgetting, but it’s worth taking another look at Mama Witch Cross Stitch. It looks like the shop has changed a bit since the last time I looked in, and you all just needed to see this amazing pattern anyway.

In the listing this one is called “whimsical opossum,” because of course it is. This little creature is sporting a straw hat and playing a banjo next to a crock of moonshine and surrounded by a wreath of pumpkins, mushrooms and other fall icons. Clicking through the images, though, I see it’s also called Possum Song, which is also pretty great.

Either way, the design is 144 by 130 stitches, which comes out to 10.29 by 9.29 inches, or about 26 by 23.5 cm on 14 count fabric.

This is not the only possum pattern offered by this shop, but you get the vibe from this one.

And to quickly check in on the rest of the shop, there are a great number of Halloween themed cross stitch patterns here, too, many with a sort of dark whimsy like mermaid skeletons, cat witches and a pumpkin-headed rider on a skeleton unicorn, to name just a few.

Another category worth noting, though it is much smaller, is “sad Victorian ghosts,” which features ghosts (sometimes in Victorian garb, sometimes not) going to the pub and the library, hanging laundry and taking a bath.

There are also a lot of Christmas designs, some sweet and some snarky, and a few creepy ones, too. Other categories include the new for 2026 “sunny patterns” (similar style motifs just with brighter colors and lighter backgrounds), as well as bookmarks and mini cross stitch designs.

[Photo: Mama Witch Cross Stitch]

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