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Designer Spotlight: Mrs. Peggoty Arts

October 16, 2024 by Sarah White

If you like your cross stitch projects with a literary twist, you’re sure to love the Etsy shop of Mrs. Peggoty Arts. This shop based in Italy describes itself as being “where art meets literature and other incredible things.” Let’s take a deeper look.

The shop as of this writing has more than 50 cross stitch patterns covering a range of literary figures. You’ll find (as a rather random sample) Miss Marple, Dorian Gray, the Dodo from Alice in Wonderland, Mr. Knightley, Willy Wonka, Anne of Green Gables. Captain Nemo, Aslan and Jo March from Little Women. There’s an emphasis on children’s literature including several designs from Alice in Wonderland  and The Wizard of Oz, as well as lots of English literature such as characters from the Brontes.

Because I’m a big fan of Matilda (both the book and the character) I picked her design as a sample to show you. Most of them are similar to this, though, with an ornate border and the character with their name somewhere in the design. Here Matilda almost looks like she’s juggling books, which seems appropriate if you’re familiar with the character.

This particular design is 130 by 184 stitches and uses whole stitches only in 22 colors. On 14 count fabric it will measure 9.29 by 13.14 inches, or 23.6 by 33.3 cm. The whole background is stitched but if you wanted to make it a little easier for yourself you could use colored fabric and not stitch all of the background. Totally up to you!

There are also some smaller cross stitch patterns, also with a literary twist. There are also TV and movie cross stitch patterns, if your taste runs more to Jessica Fletcher or Elvira as well as historical figures like Mary Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe and Henry VIII.

In addition to these fun cross stitch patterns, Mrs. Peggoty also has great literary and pop culture themed coloring pages to download and print, and some of her designs are available as paint by number patterns, too.

Check out Mrs. Peggoty Arts on Etsy to see all the fun stuff!

[Photo: Mrs. Peggoty Arts]

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All About Stitching on Perforated Paper

I recently wrote a post on my blog about using a stitchable journal cover and I mentioned that you can make your own stitched cover for a journal by using perforated paper instead of buying a stitchable notebook.

I have to admit, though, that I’ve never used perforated paper for cross stitch myself. I definitely want to because I think it would be great to use for bookmarks that don’t fray and have a little more stability, for example.

Sirious Stitches has us covered, though, because they did a deep dive into all things perforated cross stitch pattern that is worth the time to read through.

The post mentions that a lot of people use perforated paper for cross stitch because they buy an ornament kit that uses it. I’ve never seen these (or at least never noticed that that is what they were) but it’s a great idea to make small projects like ornaments in this way. It also talks about the pros and cons of using cross stitch paper, where to buy it and how to make your own. 

Making it yourself is an awesome idea because if you already have a pattern in mind you can just make holes in your paper where you need stitches to be and leave the rest solid. This would be ideal for making greeting cards, for example.

In addition to kits and sheets you can often find the paper pre-cut into different shapes you can use to make your own designs, no real pattern required.

The post also includes tips and advice for how to stitch on perforated paper that you’ll want to check out before you try your first project.

I’m super intrigued by the idea of using perforated paper for cross stitch and will probably be trying it out soon. Have you used it before? I’d love to hear your thoughts.

Check out the post over at Sirious Stitches for more information.

[Photo: Sirious Stitches]

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