Sweet Hearts to Stitch for Mom

Mother’s Day always seems to creep up on me, but the good news is there’s still time to stitch something sweet for mom.

These hearts would be great to stitch onto a card or bookmark or add to another little design.

Instructables has a great little tutorial for making greeting cards with cross stitch, which you could add a heart to, or any other deign that you like.

Sampler Patterns has a nice collection of heart patterns, and while some of them are more involved, there are a couple of really simple ones you could easily add to a Mother’s Day project. I love the little double hearts and the tulip with the heart root.

Are you stitching anything for Mother’s Day? I’d love to hear what you’re working on.

[Photo: Instructables.]

Looking for Mother’s Day Cross stitch patterns and charts? Check these out on Etsy.

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Cross Stitch Hearts for Mother's Day

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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