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Stitch Fine Art with this Fun Kit

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Cross Stitch Creations: Fine Art shows you how to recreate classic artwork from the masters in cross stitch.

Take your needle art to the next level and recreate some of the finest masterpieces in history.

From van Gogh to Klimt to Munch, the projects and artists found in Cross Stitch Creations: Fine Art represent a wide range of art movements in the painting world.

Cross Stitch Creations: Fine Art includes a 64-page instruction book that details how to create works originally painted by van Gogh, Klimt, Matisse, Hokusai, and many others:

  • Composition with Large Red Plane, Yellow, Black, Gray, and Blue by Piet Mondrian
  • The Swan (No. 16) by Hilma af Klint
  • Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci
  • Color Study, Squares with Concentric Circles by Wassily Kandinsky
  • Curtain, Jug, and Fruit by Paul Cézanne
  • Sunflowers (Fourth Version) by Vincent van Gogh
  • Flowers in a Rococo Vase by Paul Cézanne
  • The Scream of Nature by Edvard Munch
  • The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh
  • The Creation of Adam by Michelangelo
  • The Tree of Life by Gustav Klimt
  • The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Katsushika Hokusai

The kit also includes some materials for making some of the projects, but as you might imagine a lot of colors are involved in some of these projects so there aren’t materials that could be used to make all of them.

Have you seen this book? I’d love to hear your thoughts!

About the book: 64 pages, 12 patterns, $21.99/£12.99, published by Quarto.

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Cross Stitch Ice Cream and Frozen Treats

Summer is the time for sweet treats, whether eating them or stitching them. This collection of patterns is full of designs that are good enough to eat. Almost. 

This year of ice creams from Simone Balman Art is lots of fun, and you could also stitch up these treats individually if you’d rather. The full piece is 210 by 300 stitches, though it’s not full coverage. It uses 25 colors and comes out to 13.6 by 20.1 inches, or 34.5 by 51.2 cm, as shown on 14 count fabric. 

These mini Popsicles from Mariana Gonclaves ART as super sweet and quick to stitch. These would also be a fun border to another summer project. The full design is 43 by 46 stitches, which is 3.1 by 3.3 inches, or 7.8 by 8.3 cm, on 14 count fabric. 

Sam X Stitch has this fun sweet treat sampler, which again would be fun to stitch as individual pieces (maybe on napkins?). In all it calls for 18 colors and measures 153 by 153 stitches. That comes out to 10.93 inches or 27.75 cm on 14 count fabric. 

Another great sampler is this one with ice cream and other sweet treats from Cute Patterns by Maria. At 119 by 132 stitches total, working the full pattern would be about 8.6 by 9.4 inches, or 22 by 24 cm on 14 count fabric, and it uses 33 colors. You can also stitch individual designs, which range in height from 35 to 45 stitches, and in width from 11 to 28. 

This collection of four sundae patterns from Stichrovia would be fun to make for a kitchen or a teen’s room. Each pattern is around 40 by 50 stitches, so they should fit in a four or five inch hoop if worked on 14 count fabric. 

Or stitch up one of the treats from Stitch Chart Studio‘s collection of seven ice cream cross stitch patterns. These range in size and in number of colors needed, but most would fit in a five or six in hoop (and one in a four inch hoop).