Designer Spotlight: LaSelva Design

If you are looking for cute cross stitch patterns of animals, LaSelva Design is the place to go because that’s literally all they have. This California based Etsy shop boasts more than 350 patterns as of this writing, and almost all of them have animals in them.

Even the holidays section is mostly patterns of animals wearing Santa hats, with a few Halloween patterns thrown in.

There are many more dog cross stitch patterns than there are cats, because the projects are largely breed specific designs. There’s a wide range offered, from classics like corgi and labs to different kinds of spaniels, pugs, rottweilers and more. These are generally pattern sets with two or more options that alter coloration, expression or pose so you can make one that looks like your dog.

Here I’m sharing the beagles because that might be my favorite breed (as a person who has never owned a dog). There are two options, one smiling and one with a more neutral face. They both measure 37 stitches wide and the smiling beagle is one stitch shorter than the non smiling one (31 versus 32 stitches). The smiling one uses 15 colors, while the other uses 12.

There are a good number of cat cross stitch patterns, too, but here instead of a lot of breeds you’ll also find cats like lions, leopards and cheetahs.

You’ll also find a lot of birds, with some you might keep as pets and others you’ll only see in nature. All of these designs look accurate to real animals, and again there are often multiple poses of the same animal sold together so you have options for the personality you want for your creation.

In addition there are patterns for aquatic animals, farm animals, insects, wild animals, reptiles, and pets that don’t fall into the dog/cat/bird classifications such as guinea pigs, ferrets and rabbits.

The only exceptions to the everything animals rule are a section of fruit cross stitch patterns and one labeled nature, which has florals and some geometric designs.

If you’re an animal lover and want to stitch up your pet or make pet themed cross stitch projects for your friends and family, LaSevla Design is a great shop to check out!

[Photo: LaSelvea Design]

If you’re someone whose favorite color is all of them, or you know someone like that (in my world it’s my daughter!) this color wheel bouquet cross stitch pattern is one you might enjoy stitching.

It’s from Works by ABC and it features a rainbow of flowers stitches around the outside, with smaller flowers on the inside and a multicolored design in the middle that could be another flower but I’m not really sure what it’s supposed to be.

The flowers are in 16 colors, and the full pattern uses 18 colors (with the addition of the green stems and the color of the petals and vines that go around the flowers).

The design is 133 by 133 stitches, which comes out to 9.5 inches square (or 24.13 cm) when worked on 14 count fabric or 28 count over two threads. The pattern listing includes sizing for other counts if you want to make the project a little smaller. The sample was actually worked on 32 count linen, which is the same as 16 count Aida and comes out to 8.3 inches/21 cm.

Despite all the colors I feel like this wouldn’t be too difficult a project to stitch because the flowers are all the same so as long as your count is right on the first one you should be able to stitch them all the same. And it’s so much more fun than a regular color wheel for an art room or to stitch for an artist in your life.

You can grab the pattern from Works By ABC on Etsy.

Something about all the colors on this one (and that the designer also has temperature cross stitch patterns, I suppose) reminds me of temperature projects. This one has too many flowers to document a year, but if you’re looking for a temperature project I’ve collected a bunch of temperature cross stitch patterns, including one by this same designer that also uses flowers. So fun!

[Photo: Works By ABC]

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