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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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Cross Stitch Ice Cream and Frozen Treats

Summer is the time for sweet treats, whether eating them or stitching them. This collection of patterns is full of designs that are good enough to eat. Almost. 

This year of ice creams from Simone Balman Art is lots of fun, and you could also stitch up these treats individually if you’d rather. The full piece is 210 by 300 stitches, though it’s not full coverage. It uses 25 colors and comes out to 13.6 by 20.1 inches, or 34.5 by 51.2 cm, as shown on 14 count fabric. 

These mini Popsicles from Mariana Gonclaves ART as super sweet and quick to stitch. These would also be a fun border to another summer project. The full design is 43 by 46 stitches, which is 3.1 by 3.3 inches, or 7.8 by 8.3 cm, on 14 count fabric. 

Sam X Stitch has this fun sweet treat sampler, which again would be fun to stitch as individual pieces (maybe on napkins?). In all it calls for 18 colors and measures 153 by 153 stitches. That comes out to 10.93 inches or 27.75 cm on 14 count fabric. 

Another great sampler is this one with ice cream and other sweet treats from Cute Patterns by Maria. At 119 by 132 stitches total, working the full pattern would be about 8.6 by 9.4 inches, or 22 by 24 cm on 14 count fabric, and it uses 33 colors. You can also stitch individual designs, which range in height from 35 to 45 stitches, and in width from 11 to 28. 

This collection of four sundae patterns from Stichrovia would be fun to make for a kitchen or a teen’s room. Each pattern is around 40 by 50 stitches, so they should fit in a four or five inch hoop if worked on 14 count fabric. 

Or stitch up one of the treats from Stitch Chart Studio‘s collection of seven ice cream cross stitch patterns. These range in size and in number of colors needed, but most would fit in a five or six in hoop (and one in a four inch hoop).