Stitch Up Something Seasonal with Little Stitch Girl

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]

I don’t usually cross stitch text or add words to my cross stitch projects. Sometimes I will sign things using basic block lettering worked in backstitch (luckily my initials are pretty easy to stitch), but if you give your cross stitch as a gift or otherwise want to personalize it, adding text is a great way to go.

But if a project didn’t already come with text, and you don’t want to draw your own, you’ll need a good cross stitch font that you can use for your project.

I like collecting fonts that are easy to read and to stitch and that would be good for lots of different uses.

For example I really like this bold alphabet font from Cross Stitch with Art, which has both capital and lowercase letters as well as numbers if you need them for dates or other information on your design. The capital letters are an inch/2.5 cm/14 stitches tall, which makes it easy to figure out how much space you need to leave for them. It’s a nice, basic, readable serif font you can use for lots of project.

If you want a script font that’s still really readable, check out Magic Calligraphy from Soft Pattern Designs. This hand drawn font has upper case letters around 28 stitches tall, with lower case letters mostly being around 20 stitches (though the ones that go up or down a lot like f, p and y are bigger). The numbers also vary a bit in size but range from 25 to 29 stitches.

Sometimes you just want a classic font that looks like sports lettering, and in that case you’re going to need Varsity, an all caps font from Stitch Mod. This one has letters that are 21 stitches tall, and it includes capital letters and numbers. But there are definitely times this one would come in handy!

Another sometimes useful and really cute font is this alphabet block letters alphabet from Stitch Junction. These letters are all upper case and look like classic building blocks, and there are also numbers available. This one would be perfect for a birth announcement project or some other cross stitch for the baby’s room.

And if that’s not enough for you, check out this post with 85 free cross stitch fonts for you to try!

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