Modern Wedding Cross Stitch Pattern

Summer is well known as wedding season, and if you’ve got a wedding to go to this year and want to make a sweet gift, check out this pretty modern cross stitch pattern from Hoop Modern Stitch.

This one uses a single color and pretty branches surrounding the names and dates. This would also be pretty to make as an anniversary present, or you could even make it as a birth announcement with the first and middle name of the baby.

The design is 122 stitches square or about 8.7 by 8.7 inches on 14 count fabric. Keep it all one color or do the branches in one color and the names and date in another if you’d rather.

You can get the pattern with full alphabets from Hoop Stitch Modern on Etsy.

[Photo: Hoop Stitch Modern.]

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I recently came across a post from Lord Libidan talking about embroidery floss packs and whether it’s worth the money to buy a set of threads all at once instead of one skein at a time.

With the closure of Joann some people were buying these bundles as a way to build their stash/stockpile if they didn’t have another place to buy locally. I did the same thing when I first started cross stitching again after a break of many years, because I wanted to get a bunch of colors all at once without the overwhelming job of picking colors from the wall of thread when I didn’t have a particular project in mind.

And I think for this purpose buying a package with colors you like or some basic/popular colors is probably a good idea and relatively cost effective.

My Joann didn’t have any floss packs when it was closing (in fact it didn’t have cross stitch floss at all for a month or more, then suddenly go a bunch about a week before closing) but I might have bought one just to have the variety if they had been available.

If Amazon is going to be your source for cross stitch supplies going forward, I think buying packs of cross stitch floss when the colors make sense is definitely going to be a better deal. As I write this a pack of 36 popular colors was running $39.50, or about $1.09 a skein. I used to pay 66 cents per skein at Joann, but buying a single skein of black floss on Amazon would run you $4.29.

Herrschners sells DMC floss for $1.05 per skein or less, but shipping isn’t free and you’ll have to buy a lot (or a lot of other things, too) to meet their minimums for free shipping when they offer it.

Check out the post on Lord Libidan for his thoughts and let me know where you are buying cross stitch floss now if you used to buy it at Joann.

[Photo via Herrschners]

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