Designer Spotlight: Emily Call

Emily Call’s Etsy shop is full of cross stitch patterns for the whole year, including specific seasons, affirmations and floral designs. Let’s take a closer look.

The biggest category on the site is called “all year” and it includes month by month patterns, as well as pillows and other projects stitched with affirmations like “I am worthy,” “I am lucky” and “I am brave.”

I naturally had to pick one to share that doesn’t quite vibe with the others, but it made me smile. These colorful queens are helping each other out because they know it’s all about cooperation, not competition. The pattern listing is a little short on details about this duo but it does tell me that the pattern uses nine colors and was stitched on 28 count linen. I love the frame, too.

In addition to these more general designs, there’s a large selection of Christmas patterns, where you will find lots of Santas and snowmen and a couple of religious themed projects as well.

In the Halloween corner there are witches, bats, cats and ghosts, a sampler with a spider and some spooky little friends perfect for hanging on your Halloween tree.

There’s a super sweet collection of Valentine’s Day projects (along with one specific to Galentine’s Day), a nice set of patriotic American projects (I love the little USA banner) and a handful of spring and Easter patterns, of both a secular and spiritual nature.

In addition you’ll find a few patterns related to winter, St. Patrick’s Day, autumn and summer, as well as a few patterns designated florals, several of which include text and a couple are funny gardeners in their element.

If you’re looking for sweet and simple patterns to get you through the year and to make for holidays and other occasions, Emily Call has some great stuff. Check her out on Etsy!

[Photo: Emily Call]

Inkspire Studio Shops offers cross stitch patterns as well as tons of different stitch minders, scissor charms and thread organization tools.

We’ll get to all that, but since we’re mostly here for the patterns, let’s start there.

All of the patterns are in one category (called Inkspire Originals if you’re following along). There are a lot of book-themed projects and more of the designs are bookmarks than anything else. You’ll find trope bookmarks, a Reading Rainbow themed design, flowers and a super cute watercolor set bookmark, to name a few.

And while the book themed projects are by far the most numerous, I wanted to share this super cute pile of vintage Pyrex style bowls. I love the colors on this one and it should be easy to stitch because so much of it is blocks (or bowls) of a single color. This one is only available as a printed pattern, but most of them are digital.

It calls for six colors and comes out 5.6 by 6.9 inches, or 14.2 by 17.5 cm when stitched on 14 count fabric.

In addition to the bookmarks and book themed projects you’ll find a few kitchen projects and some Halloween and Christmas designs as well.

But what this shop is really about is needle minders, and there are tons of them, with all kinds of themes ranging from introverted and snarky to animal themes, food and beverages, retro designs and religious and inspiring needle minders.

If you don’t know about needle minders, these are acrylic with magnets. You stick a magnet to the back of your work, add the needle minder to the front of the work, and then it holds your sewing needle when you’re not stitching. No need for piercing your fabric or losing your needle between stitching sessions.

She also makes charms you can attach to your scissors (or use as a stitch marker if you’re a knitter or crocheter), inventory and project trackers and bags large and small to hold works in progress and other supplies. She’s also got a great collection of vintage cross stitch patterns and kits, so check out all the fun goodies at Inkspired Studio Shops.

[Photo: Inkspire Studio Shops]

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