Designer Spotlight: So Easy Pattern

So Easy Pattern is an Etsy storefront that has both cross stitch patterns and machine embroidery patterns. There’s plenty of snark but also cute stuff, landscapes, holiday patterns and more. Let’s check it out!

The biggest category in the shop is funny cross stitch, which covers everything from those snarky projects I just mentioned to a sampler of icons and phrases from the TV show Friends, feminist slogans and more.

Since I generally share a pattern from the biggest category I picked this one about smiling while you still have teeth, which is frankly pretty good advice. This design is 131 by 125 stitches, and uses 10 colors. It comes out to 9.36 by 8.93 inches, or 23.77 by 22.68 cm on 14 count fabric.

The next biggest section is holiday, which is almost entirely Christmas cross stitch patterns, with a couple of Halloween ones thrown in. As a knitter I love the Christmas sweater series you’ll find here, which are small enough to be used as holiday ornaments if you want (I would want).

Next up is nature cross stitch, which is full of full-coverage designs that include mountains, trees, the beach, the moon, that kind of thing.

If those look too complex for you, check out the beginner cross stitch section, which is mostly patterns with text (exclusively or with simple flowers).

In addition to all those categories, you’ll also find animals, patterns for baby and weddings, florals, letters, wreaths, anatomical designs (these are things like hearts, lungs and uteruses with flowers blooming out of them) and bookmarks.

And if you happen to also be into machine embroidery, as of this writing the shop has more than 100 embroidery machine patterns, ranging from seasonal stuff to snarky birthday greetings, images from TV shows and a range of cute rainbows to use on different projects.

Check out all the offerings from this fun shop over at So Easy Pattern.

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Hanukkah is a great reason to pull out your cross stitch fabric and thread and stitch up some fun seasonal cross stitch patterns.

If you have trouble spelling Hanukkah (I know I do!) you’ll want to stitch up the How Do You Spell… project from SKB Cross Stitch Design. This one includes a bunch of different ways to spell the holiday, along with some symbols like a dreidel and menorah. (Technically I think all the ways to spell it are “correct.”) The pattern includes full, fractional and bask titches, and measures 8.5 by 7 inches, or 21.6 by 17.8 cm. It has the date for 2004/5785 but you can easily change the year or leave that part off.

Another project with some fun word play is the Words to Live By chart from Sam Brie Stitches. This one includes Hanukkah related symbols and word presented crossword puzzle style, which is fun to stitch and to display. The design uses 10 colors and measures 74 by 103 stitches. It’s shown worked on 18 count fabric.

I may have shared these before, but the Hanukkah patterns from the Frosted Pumpkin Stitchery are so cute they’re definitely worth sharing again. Happy Hanukkah features a menorah, dreidels, gelt, stars and candles, and it fits in a 6-inch hoop. At 75 by 75 stitches, it comes out to 5.4 inches/13.4 cm on 14 count Aida or 28 count linen. They also have this cute little dreidel stamp cross stitch pattern, which is 39 by 49 stitches, or 2.8 by 3.5 inches (about 7 by 9 cm) on 14 count Aida or 28 count linen.

Works By ABC has a lot of great patterns for Hanukkah, but here are just a couple to get you started. The Rules for Dreidel design is fun for kids and adults and shows the different sides of the dreidel and what it means when you land on them. The stitch count is 62 by 94 and its shown worked on 32 count linen. It calls for three colors. I also like this menorah one, which measures 44 by 49 stitches and uses two colors along with coordinating seed beads. On 32 count linen as shown (equivalent to 16 count Aida) it measures 2.75 by 3.1 inches, or almost 7 by 7.8 cm.

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