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Designer Spotlight: Velvet Pony Design

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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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Small Halloween Cross Stitch Patterns

These mini Halloween cross stitch patterns are a great way to add to your holiday decor in a hurry. 

The 28 tiny Halloween cross stitch patterns set from Aliton Embroidery includes all sorts of fun designs, from mushrooms and cats to a plague doctor,  witch hat, bat and ghost. The designs vary a bit in size but the biggest ones are 20 by 22 stitches, which makes them 1.4 by 1.6 inches, or 3.63 by 3.99 cm, when worked on 14 count fabric. Most ot he projects use three or four colors, but there are 22 colors used across the whole set. 

Another great set of tiny designs comes from LaSelva Design. This set has 10 patterns, including a spider, ghost, skull and creepy, bloodshot eye. The largest one of these is 18 by 18 stitches, and all of them fit on 1.5 inch button covers.

This spook sampler from ONESEO is shown as one big piece but you could easily stitch the ones you like individually. Each little patchwork inspired design is the same size, and the full piece is 200 by 200 stitches, which makes each square a little smaller than 50 by 50. You can stitch a spell book or the full moon, an lantern or a pumpkin house, to name a few. In all the design uses 24 colors, and on 14 count fabric it comes out to 14.3 inches or 36.3 cm square. 

These cute mini stamps are also shown as one design you can easily be broken up if you want a smaller project. This one is from And Wabi Sabi and includes a bubbling cauldron, crystal ball and coffin. The full design is 72 by 84 stitches, but each individual design would fit in a 3 inch hoop when stitched on 14 count fabric. The full design uses 15 colors. 

Or there’s this little ghost from XCross Stitch PatternX, which fits in a 5 inch hoop. This one is 51 by 57 stitches and uses 12 colors. On 14 count fabric it measures 3.64 by 4.07 inches or 9.25 by 10.34 cm.