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Cross Stitch a Set of Happy Little Jam Jars

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don’t know why this cross stitch pattern delights me so much, but it does, so I have to share it with you. 

Happy Little Jam Jars from Stitchrovia is exactly what it sounds like: a set of stitched jam jars of different sizes, colors and flavors. In the interest of full disclosure there’s a bottle of honey, too. 

They all have super cute little vintage labels and textured lids, and there’s a spoon poking out of the top of the pear preserves. 

It’s just so sweet I can hardly stand it. 

My kitchen is not remotely country in style, but there’s still a part of me that wants to stitch it and hang it in my kitchen. 

The full design is 120 by 180 stitches, which comes out to 8.6 by 12.9 inches, or 21.8 by 32.8 cm, if you use 14 count fabric (the pattern description includes 16 and 18 count as well if you want to make yours a little smaller. 

It uses 26 colors and is worked in full cross stitches and back stitch. 

But what I also love about this pattern is that you could easily stitch individual jam jars if you wanted to use them on different projects. 

A single jar would be cute by itself as a greeting card. Stitch just a few, together or in individual frames, to decorate your breakfast nook. That little cherry jam jar would be adorable stitched on an apron. Once you get thinking about it I’m sure you’ll come up with all sorts of uses. 

And while it is a lot of colors, there are a lot of blocks of colors and most of the jams are a single color inside their jars. So don’t let the number of colors involved intimidate you! Just take it one jar at a time and you’ll soon have a whole pantry’s worth of stitched jam jars. 

[Photo: Stitchrovia]

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Toy Story Cross Stitch Patterns

I’m going to go ahead and admit that I totally missed Toy Story 4, so it took my by surprise when Toy Story 5 came out, but let’s celebrate with some Toy Story cross stitch patterns. 

This sweet design including Woody, Buzz and Jessie is from The Xstitch Shop, and they actually have a few different Toy Story options. This one says it is for intermediate stitches, probably because of the size and number of colors, but the sales page doesn’t say how big it is or how many colors it uses. It’s still cute, though!

If you’ve got a fan of Jessie in your household, this collection of Jessie themed icons is super cute to stitch. The design is from Mercury Stitches and it measures 97 by 144 stitches. that comes out to 6.9 by 10.3 inches, or 17.6 by 26.1 cm, and uses 11 colors. It has full and half cross stitches, as well as back stitching and French knots. 

Share the love of friendship with this sweet Woody and Buzz heart hands cross stitch pattern from Pixell Patterns. This design uses eight colors and is shown worked on 14 count fabric, but the notes don’t indicate how bit is is (based on a finished project photo, though, it looks pretty big). 

And for the Buzz Lightyear fans, of course we have to have a “To infinity and beyond” pattern, so here’s one from Silver Lake Stitches. This design is super cute on blue fabric, but use whatever you have. It measures 78 by 92 stitches, which comes out to 5.6 by 6.6 inches, or 14.2 by 16.7 cm, on 14 count fabric. It calls for 14 colors. 

Or if you want to go beyond the core three main character toys, check out this project from ThreeOOne Patterns, which includes our main toys as well as Bo Peep and her sheep, Bullseye the horse, the Slinky dog, Rex, Ham, the Potato Heads and an alien. The design is 310 by 80 stitches, which comes out to 21.14 by 3.5 inches, or 53.7 by 8.9 cm, when worked on 14 count fabric. It uses 65 colors. Or pick out your favorite characters to make a smaller project. 

All those characters and a few more are found on the mini Toy Story character sampler from Knotalot UK (only part of which is shown above). This one uses 31 colors and measures 134 by 108 stitches. It includes whole and fractional stitches, as well as back stitching. On 14 count fabric stitching the whole thing would make a project that’s 9.57 by 7.71 inches, or 24.31 by 19.59 cm.