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Designer Spotlight: Wonder Stitch UA

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Wonder Stitch UA is more than just a shop that sells cross stitch patterns. They also sell hoops, organizers and accessories for your projects, as well as individual patterns. 

The biggest section of patterns in the shop is holiday, which includes Halloween and Christmas. I also saw a few other holidays like St. Patrick’s Day and Mother’s Day, as well as some designs that I would just call seasonal. 

For example there’s a series of these little forest spirit designs; this one is for fall. The pattern describes it as a kind of “forest fairy animal.” Its eyes are slightly unsettling, but I like the rest of it. The design is 85 by 88 stitches, and the notes don’t indicate how many colors are used but it looks like a fair number. 

Moving on from holidays, you’ll also find a lot of floral cross stitch designs, which are mostly realistic renderings of different kinds of flowers; and animal patterns, heavy on watercolors, cutesy designs and a few more realistic patterns, too. 

Another big category is the full coverage designs (meaning that the whole fabric is covered with stitching rather than having some white space). This section covers a wide variety of patterns, from still lifes to animals, landscapes and holiday scenes. There are a lot of cats. 

Because the shop is based in Ukraine I need to point out their Ukrainian patterns, which include folk designs, flowers, the Ukraine coat of arms and more. 

In addition there are landscapes, nautical patterns, gnomes, birds and insects, houses and people.

Beyond all that there’s a bunch of fun products for cross stitching. The kits section includes lots of great blanks you can use for cross stitching, from key ring blanks to bracelets and passport covers (there are also some cute thread organizers). They have an array of magnetic hoops that can be used to frame cross stitch, project bags and organizers to drape over your chair and more. 

And because these are the times we live in, there’s even a section of products that are already in the United States so we can support them and save on shipping costs at the same time. 

Head to Wonder Stitch UA to see all the fun stuff and patterns they have available. 

[Photo: Wonder Stitch UA]

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Toy Story Cross Stitch Patterns

I’m going to go ahead and admit that I totally missed Toy Story 4, so it took my by surprise when Toy Story 5 came out, but let’s celebrate with some Toy Story cross stitch patterns. 

This sweet design including Woody, Buzz and Jessie is from The Xstitch Shop, and they actually have a few different Toy Story options. This one says it is for intermediate stitches, probably because of the size and number of colors, but the sales page doesn’t say how big it is or how many colors it uses. It’s still cute, though!

If you’ve got a fan of Jessie in your household, this collection of Jessie themed icons is super cute to stitch. The design is from Mercury Stitches and it measures 97 by 144 stitches. that comes out to 6.9 by 10.3 inches, or 17.6 by 26.1 cm, and uses 11 colors. It has full and half cross stitches, as well as back stitching and French knots. 

Share the love of friendship with this sweet Woody and Buzz heart hands cross stitch pattern from Pixell Patterns. This design uses eight colors and is shown worked on 14 count fabric, but the notes don’t indicate how bit is is (based on a finished project photo, though, it looks pretty big). 

And for the Buzz Lightyear fans, of course we have to have a “To infinity and beyond” pattern, so here’s one from Silver Lake Stitches. This design is super cute on blue fabric, but use whatever you have. It measures 78 by 92 stitches, which comes out to 5.6 by 6.6 inches, or 14.2 by 16.7 cm, on 14 count fabric. It calls for 14 colors. 

Or if you want to go beyond the core three main character toys, check out this project from ThreeOOne Patterns, which includes our main toys as well as Bo Peep and her sheep, Bullseye the horse, the Slinky dog, Rex, Ham, the Potato Heads and an alien. The design is 310 by 80 stitches, which comes out to 21.14 by 3.5 inches, or 53.7 by 8.9 cm, when worked on 14 count fabric. It uses 65 colors. Or pick out your favorite characters to make a smaller project. 

All those characters and a few more are found on the mini Toy Story character sampler from Knotalot UK (only part of which is shown above). This one uses 31 colors and measures 134 by 108 stitches. It includes whole and fractional stitches, as well as back stitching. On 14 count fabric stitching the whole thing would make a project that’s 9.57 by 7.71 inches, or 24.31 by 19.59 cm.