Wear Cross Stitch on Your Clothes

I love large-scale cross-stitch projects, because they are such a different way of seeing the craft, which is usually rather dainty.

Über Chic for Cheap has two projects where she added cross stitch to a sweater or shirt: a heart and a floral design.

I like looking at both of the projects together because one is done on a smooth fabric while the other is more textured, which makes the stitching that much easier — it’s just like regular cross stitch.

The heart pattern shows how to print out the design, pin it to your shirt, do the stitching and then remove the paper so you have just the cross stitch remaining. It’s a great tutorial for stitching on any kind of fabric that doesn’t already have squares.

Have you ever stitched on a garment or another piece of fabric not made for cross stitch? I’d love to hear about it.

[Photo: Über Chic for Cheap.]

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15 Ugly Christmas Holiday Sweaters To Cross Stitch

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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