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Giving Thanks

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Today at my house, we celebrate Thanksgiving. I am thankful for friends, family, a warm home, and so much more. My thoughts inevitably turn to cross-stitch since that is how I spend much of my time. So I thought I’d share my Thanksgiving Cross Stitch Thoughts with you today.

I am thankful for:

  • Flosses – there’s so much variety!
  • Tapestry Needles – cause they don’t stick me
  • Aida and Linen – in colors galore
  • hoops and frames – I always want more
  • tools and gadgets – to help us along
  • Stitching Friends – here, on Facebook, and around the world
  • Designers – who make all the charts we stitch up from simple to elaborate
  • Cross Stitch at Craft Gossip – where I have met even more great peeps in the stitching world

I have probably left out a few things, but you get the gist – there are so many wonderful things about Cross Stitch to be thankful for each day! So make your own list and if you decide to share – the comments are open for you to declare!

Looking for more Thanksgiving-themed Cross-stitch patterns and charts? Check out these Thanksgiving-themed Cross stitch designs on Etsy  and these designs on the DMC Threads website.

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Cross Stitch Ice Cream and Frozen Treats

Summer is the time for sweet treats, whether eating them or stitching them. This collection of patterns is full of designs that are good enough to eat. Almost. 

This year of ice creams from Simone Balman Art is lots of fun, and you could also stitch up these treats individually if you’d rather. The full piece is 210 by 300 stitches, though it’s not full coverage. It uses 25 colors and comes out to 13.6 by 20.1 inches, or 34.5 by 51.2 cm, as shown on 14 count fabric. 

These mini Popsicles from Mariana Gonclaves ART as super sweet and quick to stitch. These would also be a fun border to another summer project. The full design is 43 by 46 stitches, which is 3.1 by 3.3 inches, or 7.8 by 8.3 cm, on 14 count fabric. 

Sam X Stitch has this fun sweet treat sampler, which again would be fun to stitch as individual pieces (maybe on napkins?). In all it calls for 18 colors and measures 153 by 153 stitches. That comes out to 10.93 inches or 27.75 cm on 14 count fabric. 

Another great sampler is this one with ice cream and other sweet treats from Cute Patterns by Maria. At 119 by 132 stitches total, working the full pattern would be about 8.6 by 9.4 inches, or 22 by 24 cm on 14 count fabric, and it uses 33 colors. You can also stitch individual designs, which range in height from 35 to 45 stitches, and in width from 11 to 28. 

This collection of four sundae patterns from Stichrovia would be fun to make for a kitchen or a teen’s room. Each pattern is around 40 by 50 stitches, so they should fit in a four or five inch hoop if worked on 14 count fabric. 

Or stitch up one of the treats from Stitch Chart Studio‘s collection of seven ice cream cross stitch patterns. These range in size and in number of colors needed, but most would fit in a five or six in hoop (and one in a four inch hoop).