Whimsical animals with a folk art feel are what you’ll find at the Etsy shop Pigeon Coop Designs. Let’s take a closer look.
While animal projects dominate the listings on the front page, there are actually more projects categorized as landscapes, but plenty of them have animals in them, too.
I continue to be drawn to this pattern of a roseate spoonbill, because he’s such a funny little guy (don’t ask me why it’s a guy in my mind). The design is one of two (you can see the second in the background) celebrating the Everglades, as the spoonbill hangs out among the bald cypress trees.
The design is 71 by 71 stitches and uses 14 colors. The designer says it will fit in a six or seven inch hoop if you stitch it on 14 count fabric.
In actual landscapes on this site, you’ll find plenty of mountains, Canada scenes, animals of the Arctic and more. (The designer is based in Canada, so a focus on the animals and places of the north makes sense.) There are other project pairs where there’s a landscape that goes with an animal, such as a mountain and a bear, or a prairie and a bison.
The other main category on the page is called nature cross stitch, and it includes birds, owls, creatures of the tide pools, a cougar in the desert and more. It’s hard to tell why the categories are divided the way they are, so check them both out if you’re interested in this style of cross stitch patterns.
There’s only one more category on the site as of this writing, and it is for holiday, and they are all birds (and one squirrel) in winter scenes, most involving holly berries.
If you like nature and animals as themes for your cross stitch patterns, check out all that Pigeon Coop Designs has to offer on Etsy.
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