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Review: 100 Cross Stitch Patterns To Mix-and-Match by Jane Greenoff

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Book Title: 100 Cross Stitch Patterns To Mix-and-Match

Designer/Author: Jane Greenoff

List Price: $24.99


Format: Spiralbound flipbook with two sections, upper section is motifs and borders, lower section is alphabets

Number of Projects: 58 pages of alphabets and borders and motifs

Information Included: Introduction, Tools and Equipment, Threads, Fabric, Starting to Stitch, Combining Charts or Patterns, How to Use the Book.

Charts and Designs: A wide variety of designs are included. Alphabets range in size from quite small to very large. Motifs include everything from traditional sampler elements, to houses, to fruit, to holiday, and even more.

The format of the book makes it easy to mix and match elements to find alphabets and motifs that work well together. Overall, I like the concept of the book, however, I find it hard to make many of the color combinations in the elements work for me when putting the alphabets and motifs and borders together, but color changes would be an easy to do.

With all the motifs and borders and alphabets in this book, it would be a great one to add to your stitching library.

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Fancy Pumpkin Cross Stitch Patterns

If you’re ready to move beyond basic, solid orange pumpkins, check out these pumpkin cross stitch patterns that are just a little bit fancier with some kind of pattern on the pumpkin. 

Keep it simple and rustic with this plaid pumpkin form Cross Stitch with Art. You can make the plaid whatever colors you want to match your decor, or keep with the Halloween color palette. It uses three colors and comes out to about 6 inches/15.24 cm square when you stitch it on 14 count fabric. 

Mamaida Pattern has this cute pumpkin with a vine in the negative space. Since that portion isn’t actually stitched (though you could make it green if you like) that makes this pattern pretty easy. It uses just two colors and measures 108 by 110 stitches. That’s about 7.7 by 7.9 inches or 19.6 by 20 cm on 14 count fabric. 

Speaking of negative space, this design by Tinsel Cross Stitch blows out the pumpkin a bit so the ridges are negative space and the colors here too have kind of a vineing effect. This design is 98 by 113 stitches and uses three colors. It measures 7 by a little more than 8 inches, or 17.78 by 20.5 cm on 14 count fabric.

Get even more detailed with the carving effect on this pumpkin cross stitch pattern from Anemone Patterns. This one is 85 by 83 stitches, which comes out to 6.1 by 5.9 inches (15.4 by 15.1 cm).

In a similar vein but a different color, there’s this pretty green pumpkin from Crystal Feather Crafts. Of course you could make it any color you like, but I always like to remind people that even in nature not all pumpkins are orange. This design measures 101 by 93 stitches, which is 7.2 by 6.6 inches/18.3 by 16.9 cm. 

And speaking of color, if you want to stitch a pumpkin with boho vibes, this one from Stitch Craft Creatives is probably the one for you. At 200 stitches square, it comes out to 14.4 inches or 36.3 cm square on 14 count fabric. It uses 14 colors for a very vibrant pumpkin!