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Designer Spotlight: Terezy Stitch

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Terezy Stitch is a Polish Esty shop with a bit of a witchy vibe where you’ll find cross stitch patterns on all sorts of subjects, with an emphasis on flowers, landscapes, cats and holiday patterns.

It’s not necessarily representative of all the projects you’ll find there (though there are other insects done in the same style), but as soon as I saw this pattern for a golden dragonfly I knew it was the one I needed to share. This one is 176 by 174 stitches, which comes out to 12.6 by 12.4 inches, or 31.9 by 31.6 cm on 14 count fabric.

It uses 15 colors, and I love it on the black fabric but it would be pretty on any shade of blue as well.

The biggest category in the shop is floral cross stitch, and here you’ll find realistic looking designs of flowers, succulents and mushrooms as well as more graphic or abstract approaches. I love this window of succulents!

There are also a lot of landscape cross stitch patterns, heavy on mountains and water but also things like a lavender field with a windmill and a fantasy castle on a cliff side.

The Christmas patterns include a lot of houses, and there are lots of cute cat cross stitch patterns, from cartoonish to geometric to folk art styles.

This store also includes a good number of blackwork designs, which is not something you see everywhere. Most of them are bookmarks, and a lot of those are zodiac sign bookmarks, but that’s a great way to try out blackwork on a small scale and see if you like it before buying a bigger pattern. (Blackwork for the most part is done with back stitching, but it’s considered a form of cross stitch because it’s worked on cross stitch fabric.)

Check out everything this shop has to offer at Terezy Stitch on Etsy. If you see something you like, I’d love to hear about it!

[Photo: Terezy Stitch] 

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Patriotic Cross Stitch Patterns

Summer is the time of patriotic holidays in the United States, so it’s a great time to stitch up some red, white and blue cross stitch projects for the Fourth of July or just for summer decor.

Curious Carrie Designs has this cute Americana pattern that would be great to have on display all summer long. It includes an American flag in a watering can full of flowers. The design measure 55 by 60 stitches, which comes out to 4 by 4.375 inches, or 10 by a little more than 11 cm, when worked on 14 count fabric. (The sample is shown on 32 count linen, which is more like 16.) It uses 16 colors.

This Fourth of July design from Lotus Lake Stitching is specific to the holiday, but it wouldn’t have to be if you didn’t stitch the words. The little buildings and fireworks are so cute, and I love that random red, white and blue bird. It uses nine colors and measures 247 by 83 stitches. That’s 17.3 by 5.9 inches, or about 44 by 15 cm on 14 count fabric.

The burlap colored fabric on this project from Needle Treasures Nook makes it look especially rustic, but it would have a different look with pure white or light blue fabric behind the stitches. This one uses nine colors and is 72 by 71 stitches, and was worked on tea-dyed 36 count linen fabric.

The Sub Rosa Design has this patriotic garden design full of geometric red, white and blue flowers. This is one of a series of their designs so if you like it you should check them all out. This one is 131 by 71 stitches and is about 7.8 by 4 inches/20 by 10 cm on 36 count linen.

Wombat Stitching offers this one that is fully Fourth of July (and a little Captain America for fun I guess). It uses nine colors and is 193 by 193 stitches. That comes out to about 13.8 inches or 35 cm square on 14 count fabric.