Gorgeous Mushroom Cross Stitch Patterns

I don’t know why I feel like mushrooms may be the motif of fall this year. Don’t get me wrong; I love pumpkins, but I have made so many of them I think I at least am ready to move on to something else. And that thing might just be mushrooms. So let’s peruse some lovely mushroom knitting patterns.

I love this set of mini mushroom cross stitch patterns from Stitchin Madness. They’re great for beginners because they’re so small, and each individual pattern doesn’t use a ton of colors. Six of the 17 designs are shown above, but there’s a range including fly agaric, morel, chanterelle, honey mushrooms and more. Each pattern is 30 by 35 stitches, which comes out to about 2.1 by 2.5 inches or 5.4 by 6.3 cm on 14 count fabric. The designs range from using 7 to 13 colors.

Another great set of little mushroom cross stitch patterns comes from Teeny Weeny X Stitch, which has this collection of 24 patterns. Stitch up one or some, individually or in a group like is shown here. Each individual pattern is less and 40 by 40 stitches, or smaller than 3 inches/7.6 cm when stitched on 14 count fabric. The number of colors used depends on the design but ranges from 5 to 16 colors per shroom.

This set from SamXstitch has kind of a ’70s vibe to it (don’t ask me why; must be all the browns and yellows). I love it as one big pieces but you could also separate out your favorite fungi to stitch if you prefer. The full deisgn is 153 by 153 stitches, or 10.93 inches/27.75 cm square on 14 count fabric. It uses 16 colors.

The collection of mushrooms from Thread Nova Studios measures 200 by 200, which is a little more than 14 inches or 36.3 cm square on 14 count fabric. The individual mushrooms look pretty small so they’d be nice to add to a cloth napkin or a bookmark if you want to stitch something other than a big hoop of mushrooms (not that there’s anything wrong with that!).

Happy Little Mouse has a great, colorful rt of mushrooms of all sorts, with additional touches like butterflies, bugs, other animals, the moon or even little houses tucked into the scene. These are more whimsical that some of the others, but that’s definitely part of the charm. The full set is eight designs; one is shown here.

And be sure to check out this post for more mushroom cross stitch patterns!

The cross stitcher behind the blog Sirious Stitches is quite into biscornu.

If you’re not, a quick primer: biscornu are three-dimensional cross-stitched objects with eight points, often with an indention in the middle that makes them look a bit like doughnuts without the hole. They can be just about any size and subject you can think of. They’re often used as pincushions but can also be seasonal decor or just decoration for any time of year.

I’ve got a collection of biscornu cross stitch patterns here.

Once you’ve stitched one or several (they are a little addicting) you might wonder what you can add to them to make them even more extra.

It very much depends on the design of your biscornu and the look you are going for, but Sirious Stitches has a great post all about some of the options you might consider.

I don’t want to give you the whole list because you need to go visit and see all of their great biscornu they’ve stitched, but one really easy thing that you can do with a lot of designs is take advantage of that center indent by adding a button, beads, silk flower or another embellishment.

This is great to do just with a basic button from your stash that coordinates with the design and colors of the cross stitching, but it’s extra fun if you have a button that’s on theme, such as a leaf for a fall biscornu or a flower shaped button for a floral design. Add a jingle bell to a Christmas pattern, or a charm if you don’t have a button that coordinates.

Just this one idea is sure to get you thinking about ways to embellish biscornu (not to mention other cross stitch projects) but head over to Sirious Stitches to see all of their ideas for embellishing biscornu to make these already fun projects even more fun.

Have you ever made biscornu? I’d love to hear about it!

[Photo: Sirious Stitches]

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