Designer Spotlight: Trellis & Thyme

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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Cute Food Cross Stitch Patterns

I recently wrote a post on my blog about using a stitchable journal cover and I mentioned that you can make your own stitched cover for a journal by using perforated paper instead of buying a stitchable notebook.

I have to admit, though, that I’ve never used perforated paper for cross stitch myself. I definitely want to because I think it would be great to use for bookmarks that don’t fray and have a little more stability, for example.

Sirious Stitches has us covered, though, because they did a deep dive into all things perforated cross stitch pattern that is worth the time to read through.

The post mentions that a lot of people use perforated paper for cross stitch because they buy an ornament kit that uses it. I’ve never seen these (or at least never noticed that that is what they were) but it’s a great idea to make small projects like ornaments in this way. It also talks about the pros and cons of using cross stitch paper, where to buy it and how to make your own.

Making it yourself is an awesome idea because if you already have a pattern in mind you can just make holes in your paper where you need stitches to be and leave the rest solid. This would be ideal for making greeting cards, for example.

In addition to kits and sheets you can often find the paper pre-cut into different shapes you can use to make your own designs, no real pattern required.

The post also includes tips and advice for how to stitch on perforated paper that you’ll want to check out before you try your first project.

I’m super intrigued by the idea of using perforated paper for cross stitch and will probably be trying it out soon. Have you used it before? I’d love to hear your thoughts.

Check out the post over at Sirious Stitches for more information.

[Photo: Sirious Stitches]

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