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Stitch Up Something Seasonal with Little Stitch Girl

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This week’s designer profile takes us to Little Stitch Girl, whose Etsy shop is full of cute designs centered on holidays and seasons.

Her shop includes 64 designs and they all fall into a seasonal category, including:

  • Spring
  • Summer
  • Autumn
  • Winter
  • Valentine’s Day
  • St. Patrick’s Day
  • Patriotic
  • Halloween
  • Christmas

Since I’m writing this right before spooky season, let’s take a look at those Halloween patterns. It’s actually the largest group of designs, and includes everything from a cross stitched candy corn worked with gingham and plaid designs to a whole series of buildings known as Spooky Hollow (the full set is shown above and linked here, but you can also buy the patterns individually). Dracula’s coffin shop might be my favorite, but they’re all pretty cute. The designs are more sweet than creepy so they’re great to stitch up if you like decorating for Halloween but don’t want to get too grim about it.

In addition the the Etsy shop, Little Stitch Girl has a website that includes a nice collection of embroidery tutorials to help you add finishing touches to your cross stitch projects. There are videos for things like French knots and lazy daisies as well as star stitches, herringbone stitch and more.

You’ll also find a collection of cross stitch freebie patterns on her website. There’s a cross stitch design in support of Ukraine, which should still be on our minds, and designs about winter, spring, the comforts of home and a border you can work on the above-mentioned Spooky Hollow design if you work them all one one piece of fabric arranged in a couple of different ways.

These designs are cute and look like fun to stitch. Definitely check out her Christmas patterns if you like plaid!

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[Photo: Little Stitch Girl]

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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!