Stitch Up Some Halloween Fun with Fine Frog Stitching

I love seeing all the fun Halloween cross stitch patterns that are out there, and Steph from Fine Frog Stitching recently sent me a note to let me know about all the great stuff brewing over on their website.

Their Halloween collection includes a lot of great patterns. I shared the black cat design last year (check out more black cat cross stitch patterns here), but other options include:

witch hats
osteomancy sign (shown above)
Malphas, prince of hell
a crystal ball with skeleton hands saying “I’ll sleep when I’m dead”
a snarky bat
a handful of acid fire
a creepy lady in her mourning veil
a skull with mushrooms growing from its eye sockets
a snail with a pumpkin for a shell (so cute!)
witchy shelves complete with spell books, candles and a witch hat

These designs are so fun and colorful, and most of them are a great way to use black cross stitch fabric if you have any lying around (or they’re a great reason to buy some!).

In addition to the Halloween designs, Fine Frog Stitching has designs that are surreal, mystical and funny, and that are suited for all skill levels. They also have a Patreon that you can join for additional charts and goodies. Check out all the Halloween patterns here.

Looking for more cross stitch patterns to get you through spook season? Here are a few of my favorites that I’ve shared through the years: Best Witches | Halloween pattern set | Tomb Sweet Tomb | Haunted house and pumpkin

Also be sure to check out the collection of more than 50 different Halloween cross stitch patterns from Just Cross Stitch magazine (the issue is a couple of years old but I just clicked over an it looks like it’s still available for sale for all your spooky stitching needs!).

[Photo: Fine Frog Stitching]

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If your cross stitch tastes run to anime, fantasy, Disney, gnomes and the like, you’ll want to check out TesLime Cross Stitch on Etsy. This Dublin-based Etsy shop boasts more than 1,000 cross stitch patterns, with a strong pop culture bent.

The largest category in the shop is Disney, and there’s a separate Disney princess category, so there’s nearly 300 Disney themed cross stitch patterns in all. Some of these are chibis but a lot of them are pretty direct copies of Disney characters. Do with that what you will.

There’s also a large fantasy section that’s heavy on Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, dragons, aliens and trolls. In the hero section you’ll find Star Wars, Harley Quinn and the Joker, the Avatar, and Marvel characters. And in anime, there’s lots of Pokemon, Attack on Titan and Ghibli-inspired designs, to name a few.

The thing that caught my eye in this shop wasn’t any of that, though. It was sardines.

There are actually several different patterns in this shop of cans of sardines. I don’t really know why, but they’re just so weird and silly that’s what I had to share. In particular this one, where the little fish are wearing little shirts. Why? Again, I don’t know, but it’s kind of cute, right?

This design is 100 by 130 stitches and uses 21 colors. It comes out to 7.14 by 9.29 inches, or 18.14 by 23.59 cm, when stitched on 14 count fabric (the pattern includes measurements for some other counts, too, if you want to make it smaller).

And all of that barely scratches the surface. There are more than 100 Christmas cross stitch patterns (these are heavy on Disney, too). A steampunk raven. A large collection of gnomes.

I think you’re just going to have to go check it out for yourself and see what strikes you. If you end up buying one of their patterns, I’d love to hear what you chose! Check them out at www.etsy.com/shop/TesLimeArt on Etsy.

[Photo: TesLime Cross Stitch]

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