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.

[Photo: So Easy Pattern]

Inkspire Studio Shops offers cross stitch patterns as well as tons of different stitch minders, scissor charms and thread organization tools.

We’ll get to all that, but since we’re mostly here for the patterns, let’s start there.

All of the patterns are in one category (called Inkspire Originals if you’re following along). There are a lot of book-themed projects and more of the designs are bookmarks than anything else. You’ll find trope bookmarks, a Reading Rainbow themed design, flowers and a super cute watercolor set bookmark, to name a few.

And while the book themed projects are by far the most numerous, I wanted to share this super cute pile of vintage Pyrex style bowls. I love the colors on this one and it should be easy to stitch because so much of it is blocks (or bowls) of a single color. This one is only available as a printed pattern, but most of them are digital.

It calls for six colors and comes out 5.6 by 6.9 inches, or 14.2 by 17.5 cm when stitched on 14 count fabric.

In addition to the bookmarks and book themed projects you’ll find a few kitchen projects and some Halloween and Christmas designs as well.

But what this shop is really about is needle minders, and there are tons of them, with all kinds of themes ranging from introverted and snarky to animal themes, food and beverages, retro designs and religious and inspiring needle minders.

If you don’t know about needle minders, these are acrylic with magnets. You stick a magnet to the back of your work, add the needle minder to the front of the work, and then it holds your sewing needle when you’re not stitching. No need for piercing your fabric or losing your needle between stitching sessions.

She also makes charms you can attach to your scissors (or use as a stitch marker if you’re a knitter or crocheter), inventory and project trackers and bags large and small to hold works in progress and other supplies. She’s also got a great collection of vintage cross stitch patterns and kits, so check out all the fun goodies at Inkspired Studio Shops.

[Photo: Inkspire Studio Shops]

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