Designer Spotlight: Trellis & Thyme

July 8, 2024 by Sarah White Leave a Comment

Trellis & Thyme is a US-based designer that makes cute and easy-to-make cross stitch, felt softie patterns and sewing patterns sold on Etsy.

Many of the designs are little samplers with four different items with a seasonal twist, so you can stitch them all together as shown or make individual projects, or just stitch one of them if its your favorite.

For a seasonally appropriate example as I write this, here’s the frosty treats sampler, which features a striped ice pop, a sundae in a waffle cone, a Neapolitan ice cream treat and another treat with a straw sticking out.

The full design is 5.5 by 2 inches, or 13.5 by 4.5 cm, so it’s easy to pull one out and stitch it as a gift tag, for a card, onto a napkin or anywhere else you might want a bit of kawaii cuteness.

Many of their designs have the same kind of feel, whether it’s a collection of seasonal vegetables, sushi, holiday themed snacks or even adorable items for back to school.

In addition to these sampler style patterns there are plenty of cute seasonal designs with little characters, text and icons of the season. For example the Be Thankful pattern, which has a pilgrim, corn, squash, a bee and a crow. You’ll also find some adorable animals, single-image kawaii food designs and a few other options.

You can check out all of their cross stitch patterns here.

If you like other needle crafts in addition to cross stitch you’ll find some fun things to check out, too. There are a couple of crochet patterns, embroidery patterns, adorable quilt blocks and even more adorable feltcraft projects (I know it’s not what we’re here for, but check out this cute little penguin!).

You can also learn more about their projects and publications on their blog, and visit their Etsy site to shop all the goodies.

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Designer Spotlight: Cross Stitch Foxy

Cross Stitch Foxy has a huge selection of cross stitch patterns perfect for gifts or using in your own home decor. As of this writing there are more than 900 patterns listed, so there’s no way I can cover them all, but let’s take a quick peek at some of the options.

As with many cross stitch designers, Cross Stitch Foxy has a lot of holiday themed patterns, including Christmas, Halloween and Easter and St. Patrick’s Day. There are patriotic American patterns, feminist patterns and so much more.

Since we’re heading into the Christmas season as I write this, I thought I’d highlight one of the more than 100 Christmas listings in the shop. These Christmas mugs would be cute to have hanging in your kitchen or anywhere else all winter long.

The full pattern is 86 by 101 stitches, which comes out to 6.1 by 7.2 inches, or 5.5 by 18 cm, when stitched on 14 count fabric. It calls for 19 colors. Of course you could also stitch a single mug if you’d rather, or put them into individual frames.

One thing that is fun about Cross Stitch Foxy’s projects is that the intention is that to some extent you can use what you have to make the projects. None of the projects include single stitches of a color, and colors can be replaced with the colors you have or use blends made up of colors you already have, making the projects more cost effective and environmentally friendly. Of course for holiday patterns you’ll want some holiday colors, but there’s wiggle room to use the threads you already own, which is nice.

In addition to the categories I already mentioned, there are many other patterns, including a wide selection of seasonal gnomes, patterns with cats and dogs, food and drink patterns and a nice collection of flowers and plants, just to name a few. There’s probably something for everyone in this store, so go check it out at Cross Stitch Foxy on Etsy.

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