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Do You Sign Your Stitches?

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I came across this post the other day from Two Little Kits about signing your cross stitch projects. I know a lot of people do add their initials and the year to their makes, but it’s not something I have ever done (maybe because I’ve only ever made small projects and I would feel differently if I successfully stitched something larger/more complex?).

The post shows lots of different options for how the author signs her projects, which might give you an idea of how to do it yourself if you want to.

Check out her post for all the options and details, and let me know: do you sign your stitches? Are you going to start now?

[Photo: Two Little Kits.]

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  1. I’ve noticed that signing cross stitch or embroidery projects to be an increasing trend. Especially with people who have been working on samplers and want to increase the meaning the piece has.

    Personally, I’ve never been in the habit of doing it. Mostly because I’ve never thought to do it.

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Minecraft Cross Stitch Patterns

With a new Minecraft movie out in theaters, it seems like a great time to share some Minecraft cross stitch patterns. I’ve never known much about Minecraft but I know a lot of people love it, so let’s see what I found.

Of course because it has an 8-bit style it’s easy to translate to cross stitch patterns and remain pretty faithful to the original look of the game. Like with these little designs from Lab Pattern. The information on the photo and in the listing don’t match, but I think the listing is correct based on my attempt to count pixels in the photo, which would make the full set 55 by 48 stitches. That’s 3.93 by 3.43 inches/9.98 by 8.71 cm on 14 count fabric. It uses 22 colors.

This pixel poster from Mushroom Moon XStitch is a Minecraft and Pokemon mashup featuring the animals of Minecraft. It measures 134 by 198 stitches, or 9.57 by 14.14 inches/24.3 by 40 cm on 14 count fabric (the pattern includes counts for finer fabric, too, if you want to make it smaller). It uses 21 colors.

There’s a whole rainbow of colors in the Minecraft world, as shown in this design from Fizzikyu. This 200 by 200 stitch pattern uses 87 colors, so it’s not really a project for a beginner but it would be a great one to stitch for a Minecraft fan.

Speaking of the wide world of Minecraft, you can stitch it all, from the surface to the underground and the nether, with this design from Arcane Pigeon converted to cross stitch by Glitch Stitch AU. This design uses 39 colors and measures 100 by 300 stitches, or 21.5 by 7.25 inches/54.4 by 18.1 cm on 14 count fabric. What a stunner for a game room!

Little X Stitch Pattern has a set of six Minecraft character cross stitch patterns, which you can stitch individually or as a set on one piece of fabric. Each individual character is around 35 by 35 stitches (except for the wolf, not shown here), so they come out around 2.5 inches/6.3 cm on 14 count fabric.

One of the most famous creatures from Minecraft is the axolotl, of course, and you can stitch up a cross stitch Minecraft style axolotl with this design from Palatable Patterns. This is the rare blue axolotl, but you can make it another color if you like (today I learned axolotls in Minecraft can be pink, brown, gold, cyan or blue). The pattern is 75 by 75 stitches.

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