Toy Story Characters Cross Stitch

I’ll admit I haven’t watched any but the first Toy Story movie (and my daughter was so creeped out by the misfit toys that crawled around on legs she has no interest in watching more) but I know a lot of people love this franchise.

In celebration of the new movie that was just released, I thought I’d look for some Toy Story inspired cross stitch patterns, and I found these, from Pixels in Stitches.

This set of characters is from an older movie because it doesn’t have Forky, but if you or someone you know loves the classic characters like Buzz, Woody, Bo Peep and the Potato Heads, this is a nice collection. Stitch them all up sampler style or pick your favorites to embellish pillowcases or other stuff for a kid’s room.

The pattern is $10 and you can find it on Etsy.

[Photo: Pixels in Stitches, via Etsy.]

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Cross Stitch Patterns to Celebrate Holi

To celebrate back to school season, I wanted to make a fun and useful cross stitch pattern, so I decided on this cross stitch pencil bookmark.

It’s a really easy pattern even though it calls for six colors. You definitely don’t have to use all the colors if you don’t want to, and you can use different colors to make a colored pencil instead of the traditional yellow one.

These sorts of projects always end up taking longer than I imagined they would in my head, because I just don’t stop to do the math of exactly how many stitches are in a piece that’s 23 stitches by 74 rows (1,702, though not every single one of them is covered, most of them are).

But because the coloring of the chart is so straightforward, I’d say it also doesn’t take as long as 1,700 stitches sounds, if that makes sense. Because you barely have to count anything and could make most of it without consulting the chart, you can get into a groove pretty easily and stitch whole sections in a single sitting. I had a lot of fun stitching this one and I think you will, too.

Once the stitching is done, take a piece of felt and sew it to the back to hide the mess you’ve made and make it a nice smooth bookmark that’s easy to use in whatever book you might be reading.

This is a fun one to make for yourself or a kid in your life who is going back to school. But it would also be a fun teacher appreciation gift or holiday gift, especially for an English teacher but really anyone would like this one I think.

You can grab the free chart and get all the instructions for assembling your own cross stitch pencil bookmark over at Our Daily Craft.

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