Designer Spotlight: MoonLit Patterns

MoonLit Patterns is a UK-based Etsy shop full of spooky, gothic, cottagecore, and more with a magical twist.

One of the biggest categories on the site is “enchanted girls,” which includes women in different cozy scenes like stitching, writing in a journal and hanging out with butterflies.

I like this one of a gardener watering her plants and surrounded by flowers. The design is 200 by 200 stitches, which comes out to 14.3 inches or 36.3 square centimeters. It uses 38 colors.

Another large category is Halloween and spooky, which includes creepy houses, scenes in Mason jars, dusty bookshelves, black cats, dancing skeletons and ghosts on a train. Related is Gothic and dark academia, which has lots of crows and fantasy inspired designs with rich colors that look like stained glass windows.

There’s also celestial and fantasy, which is heavy on adorable dragons and fairies. And cottagecore and nature, where you’ll find a hobbit hole, mushrooms, cherry blossoms and mountain scenes.

There are also traditional Christmas patterns with Santa flying over different scenes, Christmas markets, gingerbread houses and other cozy scenes. There are sections for both animals and floral and birds and floral, with the bird section mostly being song birds (there’s a duck and bats in the animals section, so you might want to browse around if you’re looking for a particular animal).

In addition to all the individual patterns (and there are more than 600 as of this writing) the shop also has a range of pattern bundles that include lifetime access to the currently available patterns on that theme as well as access to all future patterns that fall into that category.

Current options include things like Dark Academia, fantasy and nature, as well as books, Christmas and Halloween. You can even buy the whole shop and all future patterns if you find that you like this shop’s style.

Check out all the goodies at MoonLit Patterns on Etsy.

[Photo: MoonLit Patterns]

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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