Designer Spotlight: Lady Stitchicorn Wedding Llamas

Lady Stitchicorn is the Etsy shop for you if you’re a feminist, like the zodiac (Chinese and Western), occult hobbies and llamas.

Yes, llamas.

This shop’s biggest category by far is for llama cross stitch patterns. You’ll find them for all seasons and there’s even a llama-themed calendar. There’s a zombie llama, a llama in pajamas and a llama in a Christmas sweater. There’s a llamacorn with a rainbow blanket, a Bahama llama in a Hawaiian shirt and Count Dracu-llama.

And there are a few variations of wedding llamas like these. The pattern is 60 by 43 stitches, which comes out to 4.3 by 3.1 inches, or 10.9 by 7.8 cm, when worked on 14 count fabric. It uses 11 colors. You could also add text if you want to make this as a wedding or anniversary gift, and you can change up the colors to suit the couple involved.

The next biggest category is zodiac, which includes images with outlines of the constellations for each sign as well as a cute animal to go with them (Virgo is a cat, for example, which tracks). There are also red designs for each of the Chinese zodiac animals, which you can buy individually or as a set of all 12.

Next up is cute and small patterns, which includes lots of animals as well as an avocado and a cactus. You’ll find some snark here (the narwhal is feeling stabby, for example) but you can leave off the sentiments if you like the animals on their own.

Other categories you’ll find here include nature, different hobbies represented as tarot cards with an occult twist (such as the crocheter making a pentagram), feminist patterns, Halloween designs, Murderino quotes, Christmas patterns and a couple inspired by Drag Race and The X Files.

So while I won’t say there’s something for everyone here there’s still a fun range of stuff for pop culture and zodiac fans who don’t mind a bit of snark. Check out all their offerings at Lady Stitchicorn.

[Photo: Lady Stitchicorn]

Free Art Nouveau Wedding Cross Stitch [Cross-Stitch]

Modern Wedding Cross Stitch Pattern [Cross-Stitch]

As a knitter, I love a good sheep motif, so let’s take a look at some cute sheep cross stitch patterns.

If you want to stitch a little sheep, this mini square from Good Dog Needleworks is a nice choice. It uses just three colors and measures 32 by 32 stitches. That’s 2.2 inches or about 5.5 cm square if you stitch it on 14 count fabric.

I also love these two little sheep, which you can stitch together or in individual hoops and shown. The designs are form Threadbound Art and use six colors. They are slightly different in size, with one being 21 by 17 stitches and the other 21 by 20. They fit in four inch frames if you work them on 14 count fabric.

You can stitch a sweet sheep bookmark with this design from Kits by SA Stitch. This is not for the person who doesn’t like back stitch, because there’s a lot of that here, but it is really cute. It measures 30 by 91 stitches and uses 10 colors. That will make your bookmark about 2.4 by 6.5 inches, or 6 by 16.5 cm on 14 count fabric.

Stitch a pretty scene of sheep in a meadow with this design from Motok Nytok. It uses 21 colors and the design is 99 by 73 stitches. On 14 count fabric that makes it about 7.07 by 5.21 inches, or 17.96 by 13.24 cm.

This yarn full of cross stitch sheep has a bit of a knitting twist because the sheep all look like they have sweaters on. The design is from Soda Stitch Design and it measures 179 by 216 stitches. The full design uses 27 colors. On 14 count fabric it will work out to 12.78 by 15.42 inches, or 32.48 by 39.19 cm.

Another great one with a knitting theme is this one where the wool is coming off the sheep and straight onto the needles. This one is from Happy Cross Stitchers and uses 12 colors. The pattern is 137 by 137 stitches, which comes out to 9.7 inches or 24.86 cm square on 14 count fabric. This would be a fun one to stitch for the knitter in your life (even if that is you).

Or you can stitch the field of sheep of a knitter’s dreams with the Happy Sheep chart from Charts and Stuff. These per-colored sheep can be stitched as shown or worked in any colors you like. The eyes are French knots but you can just stitch them in white if you’d rather.

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