Haunted House Pincushion Cross Stitch Pattern

I told myself I was done sharing Halloween cross stitch patterns, because I wanted to give you all plenty of time to finish them before it’s actually time.

But.

Then I saw this amazing 3D haunted house pincushion cross stitch pattern and I knew I just had to share it. There was no way it could wait until next year. It was all I could do not to buy the pattern immediately and start working on it before I told you all about it.

Designed by Living on the Rainbow, this little house measures about 7 centimeters (or just under 3 inches) when finished as shown, worked on 16-count fabric. But there are a lot of details packed into that tiny package, and along with the assembly required the designer suggested this pattern for experienced stitchers.

The full pattern is 23 pages long and includes detailed instructions for assembly.

You can get this pattern on Etsy, and while you are there check out all of their amazing designs. For Halloween you will find 3D spell books to stitch, a jack o’lantern/scarecrow, ghost, potion bottle and more traditional designs featuring ghosts going about their business of knitting, cross stitching, taking care of their plants and, of course, haunting the library (how else are we going to finish our TBR piles?)

There are also great designs for other holidays and themes (mostly Christmas but there are also some cute Alice in Wonderland patterns that are sort of Halloween adjacent), and they’re all just so much fun I need to stop talking so you’ll go check them out.

If you’re looking for more fun Halloween cross stitch designs, check out these posts:

black cat cross stitch patterns
ghost cross stitch patterns
haunted house cross stitch patterns
jack o’lantern cross stitch patterns
skull cross stitch patterns (includes a sugar skull pattern as well as more Halloween-style spooky skulls)

[Photo: Living on the Rainbow]

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Cross Stitch Patterns to Celebrate Pride

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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