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Mexican Flag Cross Stitch Ideas

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Mexican flag cross stitch pattern inspirations

I wanted to share a little something for Cinco de Mayo, but not of the culturally stereotypical type stuff you normally see this time of year.

I thought a Mexican flag cross stitch pattern would be great, but strangely enough I couldn’t find one.

Admittedly all the detail around the eagle is complicated to chart out.

I did find a Mexican flag bead pattern from Kandi’s Patterns, which isn’t a perfect representation but is actually pretty good.

If you’re willing to buy a pattern I found two crochet patterns for Mexican flags: one from Cuddle Up Creations and the other from Cozy Concepts. Because crochet patterns are presented in a chart form, you can use them as cross stitch patterns as well.

If anyone out there has a source for Mexican flag cross stitch patterns, I’d love to know about them!

[Photo: Cuddle Up Creations.]

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  1. I have been looking myself and cannot find one either. Did you do what is in the picture? If you did you could you share with me please.

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Designer Spotlight: TesLime Cross Stitch

If your cross stitch tastes run to anime, fantasy, Disney, gnomes and the like, you’ll want to check out TesLime Cross Stitch on Etsy. This Dublin-based Etsy shop boasts more than 1,000 cross stitch patterns, with a strong pop culture bent.

The largest category in the shop is Disney, and there’s a separate Disney princess category, so there’s nearly 300 Disney themed cross stitch patterns in all. Some of these are chibis but a lot of them are pretty direct copies of Disney characters. Do with that what you will.

There’s also a large fantasy section that’s heavy on Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, dragons, aliens and trolls. In the hero section you’ll find Star Wars, Harley Quinn and the Joker, the Avatar, and Marvel characters. And in anime, there’s lots of Pokemon, Attack on Titan and Ghibli-inspired designs, to name a few.

The thing that caught my eye in this shop wasn’t any of that, though. It was sardines.

There are actually several different patterns in this shop of cans of sardines. I don’t really know why, but they’re just so weird and silly that’s what I had to share. In particular this one, where the little fish are wearing little shirts. Why? Again, I don’t know, but it’s kind of cute, right?

This design is 100 by 130 stitches and uses 21 colors. It comes out to 7.14 by 9.29 inches, or 18.14 by 23.59 cm, when stitched on 14 count fabric (the pattern includes measurements for some other counts, too, if you want to make it smaller).

And all of that barely scratches the surface. There are more than 100 Christmas cross stitch patterns (these are heavy on Disney, too). A steampunk raven. A large collection of gnomes.

I think you’re just going to have to go check it out for yourself and see what strikes you. If you end up buying one of their patterns, I’d love to hear what you chose! Check them out at www.etsy.com/shop/TesLimeArt on Etsy.

[Photo: TesLime Cross Stitch]