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Designer Spotlight: Emily Call

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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]

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Designer Spotlight: Unique Stitch Crafts

Unique Stitch Crafts is a Turkish designer that has a couple of main interests in their cross stitch designs: travel and Christmas stockings. 

By far the biggest category in their storefront is Christmas stockings, with more than 100 options to choose from. There are fully stitched fronts with designs classic and whimsical (like an alicorn and a pastel rainbow, or a bunny in Harlequin costume playing violin to a mushroom) and designs that just go across the cuff of the stocking. There are ornaments with a Nutcracker or Frozen theme, New York City stockings and stockings for your dinosaur. 

As an example, here’s a stocking covered with mini holiday designs, which you could also use as ornaments if you wanted. The full design is 165 by 255 stitches, which comes out to 10.3 by 16 inches, or 26 by 40.6 cm on 16 count fabric. The pattern just makes the front of the stocking so you need to grab some fabric for the back of the stocking and sew it together yourself. 

There’s also a large collection of travel cross stitch patterns, including national parks designs both large and mini, and travel poster style designs for many US states and cities. (There’s not an Arkansas, which is my standard test since I live there, but there is a pattern of the Mississippi River bridge in Memphis, which is technically half in Arkansas.)

If you’re more of a world traveler you’ll find more of the travel poster style designs for cities and countries, including Thailand and China, Berlin, Sydney and Marrakech. 

In addition to all of that, you’ll find patterns called retro, which includes a wide range of designs, but many seem to be food and coffee related; folk art designs (lots of flowers and birds); and famous paintings translated to cross stitch. Smaller categories include Christmas, Halloween, animals, kids and castles. 

Check out all the fun designs at Unique Stitch Crafts on Etsy. 

[Photo: Unique Stitch Crafts]