Designer Spotlight: Velvet Pony Design

If you like animal cross stitch patterns, you’ll want to check out the offerings from Velvet Pony Design. As of this writing the shop, based in Türkiye, has more than 200 patterns, with more than half of them being of animals and birds.

Animal cross stitch covers everything from multicolored geometric designs of animal faces, including an elephant, bear and cow to name a few; to animal outlines with trees inside the body shape; to colorful tropical fish, a snail with trees on its back, scenes with dinosaurs, a lovey capybara, a scarf wearing llama and more.

I love this little penguin family, which measures 116 by 97 stitches and uses 18 colors. On 14 count fabric it measures 8.3 by 6.9 inches, or 21.2 by 17.6 cm. The pattern includes sizing for other fabric counts and in fact the sample was worked on 18 count fabric and fits in a nine inch hoop. This would be a cute one to make as a baby gift or for any family of three that likes penguins.

On the bird front are more patterns in a similar style (and it didn’t occur to me until I was writing this that the penguins were in animals not birds, but that’s fine). You’ll find birds in the same styles, with lots of common American birds like blue jay, cardinal, woodpecker and robin. There are some more exotic birds, too, like tucans and a hoopoe (and a very cute puffin).

In addition to flowers and birds, you’ll find floral cross stitch, a few Christmas designs and a category called other, which includes some fruit, a geometric map of the world, a moth and some other things.

The shop also has a nice collection of bundles if you find you like their style and want to buy more than one pattern. Some of the patterns in the collections are not ones I noticed in the main categories, so you might find some surprises (baby woodland animals, sea creatures and more) if you look there.

Check out everything they have to offer at Velvet Pony Design on Etsy.

[Photo: Velvet Pony Design]

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Siren Stitchworks has cross stitch patterns that feel like old samplers (and some of them are in fact historical reproductions) even when they are modern designs. They have patriotic patterns, biscornus, pop culture patterns and more so let’s take a look.

One of the projects that caught my eye was the Mexican menagerie, a set of five Mexican folk art inspired creatures. There’s a bird, horses, dragons, alligators and cats on these designs, which you can make into tiny pillow or ornaments.

The pattern notes don’t say how many colors are used but it doesn’t look like any of them have more than five colors. It does note the smallest pattern is 59 by 59 stitches, and the largest is 82 by 68 stitches. They also only use full cross stitches.

The category with the largest number of entries (which is still only 12 as of this writing; this is a small shop) is called ornaments and smalls. It includes this menagerie and another Mexican animal collection, as well as traditional looking patterns with a twist, such as a little pattern with Yule goats, a needlebook cover that looks like a tombstone and alphabet samplers that include Greek, Latin and Hebrew.

There are also a bunch of samplers, divided into monochrome, traditional and reproduction samplers. There are some fun ones in the monochrome department, including a Titanic sampler and an aloha design with a pineapple motif. Traditional samplers include some patriotic designs (and a gorgeous folk art resist fist), as well as a really fat cat.

And the reproduction samplers include fun fonts, florals and birds like you’d expect from old sampler designs.

In addition you’ll find a few pop culture designs (mostly Game of Thrones inspired samplers for different houses), biscornus include a couple Chinese zodiac designs, and a few needle minders for sale.

Check out all the fun designs at Siren Stitchworks on Etsy.

[Photo: Siren Stitchworks]

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