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]

Siren Stitchworks has cross stitch patterns that feel like old samplers (and some of them are in fact historical reproductions) even when they are modern designs. They have patriotic patterns, biscornus, pop culture patterns and more so let’s take a look.

One of the projects that caught my eye was the Mexican menagerie, a set of five Mexican folk art inspired creatures. There’s a bird, horses, dragons, alligators and cats on these designs, which you can make into tiny pillow or ornaments.

The pattern notes don’t say how many colors are used but it doesn’t look like any of them have more than five colors. It does note the smallest pattern is 59 by 59 stitches, and the largest is 82 by 68 stitches. They also only use full cross stitches.

The category with the largest number of entries (which is still only 12 as of this writing; this is a small shop) is called ornaments and smalls. It includes this menagerie and another Mexican animal collection, as well as traditional looking patterns with a twist, such as a little pattern with Yule goats, a needlebook cover that looks like a tombstone and alphabet samplers that include Greek, Latin and Hebrew.

There are also a bunch of samplers, divided into monochrome, traditional and reproduction samplers. There are some fun ones in the monochrome department, including a Titanic sampler and an aloha design with a pineapple motif. Traditional samplers include some patriotic designs (and a gorgeous folk art resist fist), as well as a really fat cat.

And the reproduction samplers include fun fonts, florals and birds like you’d expect from old sampler designs.

In addition you’ll find a few pop culture designs (mostly Game of Thrones inspired samplers for different houses), biscornus include a couple Chinese zodiac designs, and a few needle minders for sale.

Check out all the fun designs at Siren Stitchworks on Etsy.

[Photo: Siren Stitchworks]

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