Designer Spotlight: Piccola Parigi

Piccola Parigi is a Europe-based Etsy shop with a team of designers bringing you modern and fun cross stitch patterns for lots of occasions. With a heavy emphasis on wedding cross stitch, you’ll also find holiday patterns for Christmas, Halloween, Valentine’s Day and more, plus lots of other seasonal stitches.

One thing that caught my eye in this shop is the large number of gnome cross stitch patterns, which is sure to delight anyone who likes gnomes as a decorating device throughout the year. These have an emphasis on holidays, too, including Halloween, Christmas, St. Patrick’s Day and Mardi Gras.

The Thanksgiving ones shown here would be great to stitch and display throughout the fall. They shown gnomes in falling leaves with various fall things including fruit, a pumpkin, leaves and sunflowers. All of the projects are a little different but they use between 21 and 23 colors and range from 60 to 74 stitches wide and 101 to 110 stitches tall. They’d be super cute all in frames hung together, or just stitch up your favorite.

A lot of the wedding patterns involve floral wreaths, but you can also buy sets of floral wreath patterns that you can stitch as they are or add your own words to.

There’s also an adorable set of black cat cross stitch patterns, which I only bring up because I have a black cat and I love them.

And while it’s not quite seasonally appropriate as I write this, there’s a fun selection of Halloween cross stitch patterns, too, including more cats, super realistic haunted houses, less realistic but still cute haunted houses, some funny projects, and of course gnomes. Something for almost everyone!

Check out their shop at Piccola Parigi to find something fun to stitch. And be sure to let me know if you have a favorite cross stitch designer I haven’t shared yet so we can get them in front of everyone!

[Photo: Piccola Parigi]

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Colorful Mardi Gras Cross Stitch Patterns

Cute spooky and fantasy cross stitch patterns is how the designer behind Haunted Frames describes their shop, and I have to agree with them. These designs are cute and Gothic and a little bit spooky all at once. There’s a heavy focus on book themes, which you know I am a fan of, so let’s get into it.

Stopping first in the books section, there are lots of designs that are literally on book shapes, but if you know my love of both books and cats, you’ll know I had to share the Midnight Book Cart cross stitch pattern. As the name suggests it’s a design with a witchy book cart, complete with a spiderweb, bats flying out of a book and what it describes as a ghost cat (though I would have to make a black cat instead of a white one since I have a black cat, and that fits with the vibe).

The design is 65 by 97 stitches and is worked in 17 colors. It’s shown on 16 count fabric, which makes it 4.1 by 6.1 inches, or 10.3 by 15.4 cm.

I also love the winter themed little free library design, which would be perfect to stitch up for the little librarian in your life (or to drop at a neighborhood book space).

Projects with a book theme make up the majority of the patterns that are categorized in this shop, but you’ll want to scroll through all their patterns to see what else is available, since it doesn’t look like everything is in a category. You’ll find castles and dragons, more cats of course, some more obviously Halloween and Christmas themed projects and those that would suit for spooky season or any other time of year.

If cute and dark is your aesthetic, you’ll want to check out all the patterns at www.etsy.com/shop/HauntedFrames, which you can find on Etsy.

[Photo: Haunted Frames]

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