Halloween Pumpkin Unicorn Cross Stitch Pattern

Unicorns still seem to be a popular crafting motif, so why not combine them with the seasonal shape of the moment — pumpkins?

This pumpkin unicorn cross-stitch pattern from LabPattern on Etsy is actually really cute. It also looks a tiny bit like a cat if you ask me. Cat-uni-pumpkin-corn? I don’t know. But its super sweet holiday decor for the unicorn lover in your live.

The pattern is 57 by 72 stitches, or 4 by just over 5 inches on 14-count fabric. It uses nine colors. You can grab the pattern on Etsy for $4.

[Photo: LabPattern via Etsy.]

Hosting a Rainbow party? Check out these Rainbow party articles over on our Party Ideas Blog and these Rainbow party decorations we found on Amazon and these fun Rainbow party items from Etsy. Looking for more food ideas, here are all our Rainbow recipes.

We love our Unicorn parties around here so much that we decided to create our own DIY Unicorn Party Pinterest board. Which means we have literally 100’s of our favorite Unicorn ideas, party decorations, Unicorn cakes and other Unicorn tutorials and crafts all in one spot. You can check them all out here DIY Party Ideas – Unicorn. Or check out these Unicorn Crafts

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A while back I made a little rainbow cross stitch pattern and I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do with it, so I turned it into a patch. My idea was that it could be used on a jacket or backpack, or you could add a pin to the back and wear it temporarily on a shirt or elsewhere.

But what if you want to make your design more permanent? Is it possible to turn a piece of cross stitch into an iron-on design?

It turns out yes, it is, and Sirious Stitches has done it so I didn’t have to try to figure it out on my own.

The way they did it was by using HeatnBond, an iron-on adhesive that attaches fabrics without sewing. There was still sewing involved to finish the edges of the cross stitch fabric and make it look like a purchased patch. The post shows how to do this by hand or with your sewing machine. (I just did blanket stitch edging on mine, which doesn’t look like a “real” patch but is also a lot faster.)

Once you have the patch prepared it’s a pretty easy matter of using the fusible adhesive to the back of the patch so you can then iron it onto whatever jacket, pair of jeans, bag or whatever else you might want to add it to.

I guess I’m a little paranoid about the washability of cross stitch projects, though you could hand wash anything with an iron-on cross stitch patch as you might need to with a purchased iron-on patch, anyway. But this does look really cool and is a great option if you know you want to permanently add a cross stitch patch to a garment of bag.

Get the full tutorial over at Sirious Stitches. Would you add an iron-on cross stitch patch to something? I’d love to hear what you would use this technique for!

[Photo: Sirious Stitches]

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