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Designer Spotlight: Scared Thread Design

January 4, 2024 by Sarah White

Sacred Thread Design is an Etsy seller based in Canada who offers lots of whimsical, watercolor-style designs, as well as sweary, snarky designs.

Sometimes it’s easier to write about a designer when they just do one kind of thing, but I’m going to try to cover as much ground here as I can.

There are letters in all sorts of styles, which would be so cute for a baby’s room or initials as a wedding present. A bunch of adorable animals, including what may be the cutest tarantula I’ve ever seen (not sharing the picture here for anyone who doesn’t like that kind of thing, but click on over if you want to see what I see).

You’ll find all sorts of flowers, cacti and mushrooms. My daughter would love this mushroom cross stitch pattern. There’s even cute food, signs of the zodiac (constellations, not their symbols) and tiny pixelated versions of famous works of art.

On of the biggest categories on their page is called quotes, but they’re mostly snarky commentary like “I was normal two kids ago” or “an apple a day keeps everyone away if you throw it hard enough” (note some of these are sweary).

Even all that doesn’t feel like it scratches the surface of all the goodies you will find in their shop. You can also purchase pattern bundles from them, including one that is all current and future patterns, if you happen to head over there and find a lot of things you like (I know I did!).

But I did have to choose one pattern to share a photo of, so I went with this tree cross-stitch pattern. I love the use of color — it has 35 colors in total — and just the feel of it is really nice to me. It measures 130 by 130 stitches, or 9.3 inches/23.6 cm on 14 count fabric.

If you check out their designs and see something you like, I’d love to here about it!

[Photo: Sacred Thread Design]

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Designer Spotlight: Happy Cross Stitchers

If you love patterns for frogs and sardines, animals, food, flowers and more, Happy Cross Stitchers has got you covered. With more than 1,600 patterns as of this writing, you’re almost guaranteed to find something you like.

I don’t know if I’ve missed something that cross stitch patterns featuring sardines are showing up everywhere (this is the second designer I’ve seen with them in the past month or so) but Happy Cross Stitchers has 60 sardine cross stitch patterns. They also have 200 patterns with flowers, and even more than that in their biggest category, which is animals.

Many of the animal cross stitch patterns have a modern nursery feel to them, like this set of four modern boho animal patterns featuring what I’m interpreting as owls, a moose (or it coulr be a deer), a donkey and a cow. Each individual pattern is 100 by 100 stitches and they use six or seven colors. The designs will come out to 7.1 inches or 18.14 cm when stitched on 14 count fabric.

There’s also a large number of Christmas cross stitch patterns, with lots of trees, little houses, Santas and word art. There are lots of bunnies, eggs and chicks in the Easter section.

The modern designs include lots of colorful, graphic florals. There are also well over 100 butterflies, many of which at least look like they could be inspired by real butterflies (though none of them are labeled as to what kind of butterfly they are).

You’ll also find plenty of cute and often funny cat and dog cross stitch patterns, though there are a lot more cats than dogs represented. And then there’s the food section, with patterns for fruits, different kinds of toast, a jar of pickles, doughnuts and more.

And that’s not even all there is in this store! I guess all this is a long way of saying there’s a lot of fun patterns at www.etsy.com/shop/HappyCrossStitchers on Etsy and you should go browse because you’ll probably find something you like. And if you do, I’d like to hear about it!

[Photo: Happy Cross Stitchers]

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