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Designer Spotlight: Lucky Crossstitching

December 19, 2025 by Sarah White

Lucky Crossstitching has cute and relatively easy looking patterns that focus on holidays and natural inspirations like animals, flowers and insects. Let’s take a closer look at this Etsy shop!

As of this writing they have more than 120 patterns to choose from, in narrowly tailored categories so it’s easy to find what you’re looking for. Appropriately for the time of year I’m writing this, the biggest category in the shop is Christmas, followed by flowers. 

The floral patterns have an old fashioned feel, which isn’t a criticism. There are lots of pastels and mandala type patterns, like this design featuring violets.  

The design is 63 by 63 stitches and uses 7 colors. On 14 count fabric it comes out to 4.5 inches square, or 11.43 cm. The pattern includes full cross stitches and back stitch, bu tit doesn’t look like there’s a lot of back stitching and it’s purely decorative (as opposed to outlining a design) in the center motif. 

In addition to these categories, they also have designs for other holidays including Halloween, St. Patrick’s Day, Easter and Valentine’s Day, as well as patterns for each of the seasons. There’s also a section called Wheel of the Moon that includes designs for pagan holidays like Samhain, Ostara and Beltane. 

On the nature side of things, there are patterns for insects, mushrooms, birds and animals more generally, as well as couple of garden inspired designs. The fairy tale section includes a fairy house and a gnome gardener. There’s also a sweet set of houses and cottages surrounded by flowers in traditional sampler style. 

Check out all of their designs at Lucky Crossstitching on Etsy. 

Are you a cross stitch designer or do you know a designer who should be featured? Let me know about them in the comments, or click the link that says suggest a craft at the top of the page and tell me about them!

[Photo: Lucky Crossstitching]

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Everything You Need to Know About Embroidery Hoops

One of the most common supplies for cross stitch, aside from fabric, needles and floss, is an embroidery hoop. A hoop isn’t needed for every project, and indeed there are some stitchers who prefer not to use them at all. I generally don’t use a hoop when I’m working on a small cross stitch project, especially something that’s shape isn’t conducive to using a hoop (like a bookmark). 

But embroidery hoops can be really helpful for cross stitch because they hold your fabric at an even tension, which allows you to stitch more evenly without any more work on your part. It’s great for beginners to use hoops because the tension on the fabric can both help make your stitches more even and make the holes in the fabric a little easier to see. 

I’ll admit to always just buying whatever hoop is available in the right size when I’m ready to start a project without giving it much more thought than that. But there are things you should consider when choosing among the different kinds of hoops, which Caterpillar Cross Stitch covers in their great guide to embroidery hoops. 

The post walks you through wooden, plastic, spring tension and flexi hoops (which I’ll admit to having never heard of; they’re made of vinyl and plastic apparently), as well as Q-Snap frames, which aren’t really hoops because they’re made of plastic tubes that you snap together in the size and shape you need. 

It also covers what size hoop you should use for the project you’re working on and how to actually use a hoop in the right way. 

Whether you’re new to cross stitch or more seasoned, you’re sure to pick up a tip or a product to try in this post, so go check it out over at Caterpillar Cross Stitch. 

Do you have a favorite kind of embroidery hoop to use for cross stitch, or do you go without? I’d love to hear your thoughts!

[Photo: Caterpillar Cross Stitch]

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