The cross stitch designs from Mariana Gonclaves ART often feel like little collections, fanciful samplers of books, dogs, butterflies and flowers. Let’s take a closer look.
The biggest category on the site is floral, which includes lots of designs that are almost like mandalas made out of flowers. Some feature flowers in one “corner” of the hoop while and insect approaches from the other side.
I picked the wildflowers bouquet as a representative pattern, which shows you a bit what I mean about it being a collection of flowers. This one is 78 by 79 stitches, which comes out to about 5.6 inches square, or 14.3 cm, on 14 count fabric. The pattern doesn’t indicate how many colors are used, but it’s at least 10 and probably more.
Another large pattern section ironically is called tiny, which features little images of lots of things like a whole design full of ice cream cones, coffee drinks, rubber duckies, mouse ears or tiny cakes, to name a few.
In the small creatures section you’ll find bees, birds, butterflies and other insects, sometimes with one main image surrounded by smaller images, mandala style, with others more sampler like.
Another category called pet lovers is full of dogs and cats, as well as a few designs of cats with books, because of course the cats hang out on your bookshelf, don’t they? (There’s also a bookmark design with cats and books which I love.)
Other categories include Christmas, bears, pasta and crystals. There’s also one called color geek that includes a color wheel, CMYK and RGB color designs and paint samplers. Good vibes is a catch all with a stitched disco ball and designs promoting your love of chocolate, coffee or pistachios.
These designs are fun, cheerful, colorful and look like they would be enjoyable to knit for yourself or someone who loves tiny stitched things and happy designs.
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