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Designer Spotlight: MoonLit Patterns

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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]

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Toy Story Cross Stitch Patterns

I’m going to go ahead and admit that I totally missed Toy Story 4, so it took my by surprise when Toy Story 5 came out, but let’s celebrate with some Toy Story cross stitch patterns. 

This sweet design including Woody, Buzz and Jessie is from The Xstitch Shop, and they actually have a few different Toy Story options. This one says it is for intermediate stitches, probably because of the size and number of colors, but the sales page doesn’t say how big it is or how many colors it uses. It’s still cute, though!

If you’ve got a fan of Jessie in your household, this collection of Jessie themed icons is super cute to stitch. The design is from Mercury Stitches and it measures 97 by 144 stitches. that comes out to 6.9 by 10.3 inches, or 17.6 by 26.1 cm, and uses 11 colors. It has full and half cross stitches, as well as back stitching and French knots. 

Share the love of friendship with this sweet Woody and Buzz heart hands cross stitch pattern from Pixell Patterns. This design uses eight colors and is shown worked on 14 count fabric, but the notes don’t indicate how bit is is (based on a finished project photo, though, it looks pretty big). 

And for the Buzz Lightyear fans, of course we have to have a “To infinity and beyond” pattern, so here’s one from Silver Lake Stitches. This design is super cute on blue fabric, but use whatever you have. It measures 78 by 92 stitches, which comes out to 5.6 by 6.6 inches, or 14.2 by 16.7 cm, on 14 count fabric. It calls for 14 colors. 

Or if you want to go beyond the core three main character toys, check out this project from ThreeOOne Patterns, which includes our main toys as well as Bo Peep and her sheep, Bullseye the horse, the Slinky dog, Rex, Ham, the Potato Heads and an alien. The design is 310 by 80 stitches, which comes out to 21.14 by 3.5 inches, or 53.7 by 8.9 cm, when worked on 14 count fabric. It uses 65 colors. Or pick out your favorite characters to make a smaller project. 

All those characters and a few more are found on the mini Toy Story character sampler from Knotalot UK (only part of which is shown above). This one uses 31 colors and measures 134 by 108 stitches. It includes whole and fractional stitches, as well as back stitching. On 14 count fabric stitching the whole thing would make a project that’s 9.57 by 7.71 inches, or 24.31 by 19.59 cm.