Tips for Using Soluble Canvas for Cross Stitch

Have you ever used soluble canvas for cross stitch? It’s kind of magical.

It allows you to essentially turn any fabric into cross stitch fabric by making a grid on top of the fabric, so you can stitch a design on and then remove the grid with water, so it looks like you stitched directly on your fabric.

This is a great way to jazz up T-shirts and onesies, towels and other fabric, but there are some things you should know before you use it.

Hannah from Bobo Stitch shared 10 tips for using soluble canvas at Sew and Sew, and they’re definitely worth a read if you’ve never used this stuff before, and even if you have. One simple one that should be obvious but might not be is that you should prewash your fabric, otherwise the stitches might distort if it shrinks during washing.

If you have any tips, warnings or success stories around using soluble canvas for cross stitch, we’d love to hear them!

[Photo via Sew and Sew.]

Cross Stitch with Art is a Ukraine-based Etsy shop with more than 1,000 patterns covering a wide range of subject matter, from sarcastic (and stabby) animals to jokes about mental health, tarot cards, holiday designs and a lot more.

The funny and adult humor section is by far the largest, with lots of snarky word art designs, often with a floral wreath thrown in for extra cuteness. There’s a bit of swearing in here, too (as well as in other sections).

My favorite place because I love that there are enough of these sorts of patterns to warrant their own section, is the Chaotic Animal Society. I feel like this is a type of cross stitch pattern that I share often, but it is a bit of a trend right now, too.

This one is a racoon in its bathrobe drinking a coffee and reassuring us that nothing is under control. That’s pretty relatable. The design is 86 by 91 stitches and uses 9 colors. It comes out to a little less than 6.5 inches or 16.5 cm square on 14 count fabric.

There are also a ton of mental health quote patterns (here again with plenty of snark as you might imagine, but also some sweeter ones, too); Halloween, Christmas, Valentines and other holiday patterns; nature patterns divided into animals and flowers and landscape designs; BookTok patterns and more.

There’s a nice collection of made up tarot cards including the antisocial butterfly, a reading dragon and a rainbow haired unicorn doing yoga. You’ll find feminist designs, Celtic knots and tree of life patterns, blank frames you can add your own sentiments to and a bunch of fonts to help you do just that.

Even though that covers a lot of the chaotic fun happening in this shop, there’s really a lot to see so you should head over to Cross Stitch with Art on Etsy and see it for yourself!

[Photo: Cross Stitch with Art]

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