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Siri
@sirithre.bsky.social
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Cleveland based IT nerd and #CrossStitch designer.
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Siri @sirithre.bsky.social · Jun 7
Starting off with a post I can pin to my profile.
Here are some of my favorite cross stitch patterns I've designed. Y'know, to give you an idea of what kinda designs to expect from my profile in the future. 🙂

Basically, expect both nerdy and pop culture designs as well as some fun original ones!
Two brightly colored cross stitch designs stretched on canvas. Flowers of Hyrule, featuring 12 zelda-inspired flowers, and Mushrooms of Hyrule, featuring 12 zelda-inspired mushrooms. Three fruit-themed cross stitch biscornu used as pin cushions. A Lemon Lime, a Strawberry Kiwi, and a Wildberry design featuring Blueberries, Raspberries, Blackberries, and Strawberries. Three square cross stitch designs on stretched canvas, featuring designs inspire by board game covers. Specifically the games Calico, Wingspan, and Azul. A set of 5 pastel cross stitch ornaments all featuring a similar color palette. Varying designs, including a summery christmas design with a driftwood tree, a stack of books with an open journal for writing in. A cauldron full of flowers, a pumpkin wearing a witch hat hanging out with a catlike ghost, and a cornucopia design.
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This took FOREVERRRRRR. Or y'know, something like 150 hours to stitch. I started back in Feb and have been working it in the background while stitching all the other designs I've released this year. 😅

Something I've been wanting to do for a whiiile. It's a book tracker! But with quilt squares!
A cross stitch of a bunch of different quilt squares, each one denoting a book I read this year. What my cross stitch quilt would've looked like if I hadn't used the colors from the book covers.
November 12, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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When do you put your tree up? Do you decorate it with handmade ornaments? Even these small designs take deceptively long to make, and getting an early start is not a bad idea!

So here's a reminder that I have tutorials for a number of different styles of ornaments!
sirithre.com?s=ornament
A cross stitch christmas bauble featuring hearts and leaves. A cross stitch christmas bauble featuring a deer in front of a christmas tree in a snowglobe.
November 11, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Super colorful pattern coming up this week. But it's a customizable pattern -- use as many or as little colors as you want. 👀

How does that work? You'll see. 😉
A container full of cross stitch / embroidery thread bobbins. A full rainbow of threads along with a quilt-themed biscornu pin cushion and some stork scissors.
November 10, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Spellbound Stitches - The Bookmark Book

These are the bookmarks from the Historical Fiction chapter by:
@bogdragoncrafts.xyz , Loombug, & @needlelotdesigns.bsky.social
Details: sites.google.com/view/spellbo...
30 patterns for $15 to charity!
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Spellbound Stitches logo of an open palm hand with a floating needle above. Volume 5. The Bookmark Book. Immigration and Humanitarian Aid Campaign. Campaign ends Sunday, 11/23. Science. Bottom portion shows a giant sardine. Middle bookmark shows a cat in the style of Marie Antoinette and a tiered cake, and the right portion shows a medieval sword bookmark wrapped with flowers and trimmed to size. A cross stitched bookmark depicting a giant sardine in bright colors, in the middle of a canal. Spellbound Stitches Logo. Historical Fiction. Designer bogdragoncrafts. The Sardine. A hand holes up a cross stitched bookmark of Purrie Antionette, the Queen of Pawstries. A cat that looks like Marie Antionette with a large hairdo, lots of ornate details, and a tiered cake. Spellbound Stitches logo. Historical Fiction. Designer Loombug. Purrie Antoinette - Queen of Pawstries. A cross stitched bookmark on plastic canvas in the shape of a medieval sword, with flowers wrapped around the blade. The bookmark is trimmed to size and staged on an open book with daisies and a pile of embroidery floss. Spellbound Stitches. Historical Fiction. NeedleLot Designs. Lost Flower Blade.
November 9, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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It's been a very bookish year for me. I've somehow managed to read over 200 books!

Of course by read I do mean listening to audiobooks on 2x while stitching. Some of it while chores, but mostly stitching. So I've done a heck of a lot of stitching so far this year. 👀
Gonna make for a fun recap!
Closeup of a cross stitched bookmark tucked into a book. In the background, two more wheel of time themed bookmarks.
November 6, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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This silly lil guy is now available on Etsy, if you're into that sort of thing. 😆
A bit late for halloween stitching, but honestly skull planters are year round. At least I use mine year round. You do you.
a cross stitch of a skull planter with luscious leafy hair surrounded by stars
November 5, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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This month's freebie! I've seen these bell shapes around and really wanted to see what it was like.

So I designed a simple little panel design and tried to make it look like iced gingerbread and just went with it. And I think it turned out pretty cute despite the lack of
planning. 😂
A cross stitched 3d bell shape with white stitching on gingerbread aida. The bottom of a cross stitched 3d bell shape with white stitching on gingerbread aida.
November 4, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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I started this project in like, February after spending most of January brainstorming for it. So
naturally it took all year to stitch. 😂
Can't wait to show you this completed project next week despite absolutely no one asking for this lol.
A work in progress cross stitch design featuring a ton of stitched quilt squares in different color schemes.
November 3, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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I know it's not even November, but if you want to stitch this holiday band sampler for the holidays this year, it's probably best to start soon. 😂 Took me like 35 hours, at any rate.

I'd like to do another nerdy band sampler like this one day. But what theme? 🤔
A cross stitched D&D themed band sampler designed to look like an 'ugly christmas sweater' with rows of potions, weapons, dice, chests, and of course dragons.
October 30, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Another freebie coming out this weekend. This time I'm trying out a shape I've seen around the internet but never made myself.

I did forget how annoying french knots can be though. Next time? Beads. 😂
Work in progress cross stitch of white snowflake shapes on gingerbread aida.
October 27, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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The no-glue Flatfold Tutorial should be up on YouTube now! Assuming I got my timezones right 😅

The video quality is meh, but the info is all there and hopefully still useful! Maybe I'll refilm it next time I make one. But I'm not going to unmake this one just for that, sooo. 🤣 youtu.be/LZQyXwDifD8
Somewhat grainy footage of the process of finishing a flat-fold cross stitch ornament The finished Poe-themed cross stitch flat fold, taken with a much better camera.
October 24, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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This month's article is about Holiday gifting -- What to stitch for your loved ones this holiday season?

My favorite type of gift is ornaments! There's so many different styles, are relatively small, and no one has to feel bad for storing them away in the off season 😂
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An arrangement of various styles of cross stitch ornaments.
October 24, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Back look a bit different than the front? That's because this was done on printed aida. So while the front is a cool stormy gray, the back is just white!

It's a lil weird working with printed aida, I kinda get jump scare when I flip it over to tuck in my ends, lol. 😂
The backside of a cross stitched hourglass A cross stitch design of a hourglass with a sandy shore with high waves slowly draining through the hands of a silhouette on another sandy shore. Next to it, the Edgar Allan Poe quote "All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream"
October 23, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Been a while since I did a flatfold. So naturally I had to make a new one! Plus this'll fit in great with my library decor. 🥰

One of my favorite quotesfrom Edgar Allan Poe. Maybe not as
well known as The Raven, but I'm hoping some of you
will know it. 🙂
A cross stitch flat fold design of a hourglass with a sandy shore with high waves slowly draining through the hands of a silhouette on another sandy shore. Next to it, the Edgar Allan Poe quote "All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream" The same Poe Hourglass design, but without the sky stitched in allowing the fabric to shine through.
October 22, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Good news! I did remember to film myself making this week's flatfold.
Bad news: It's kinda terrible picture quality and I can't re-film it. 😂

I'll still be releasing the tutorial this week, but am apologizing in advance for the footage 🤣
A somewhat grainy still of hands lacing a cross stitch on 16ct aida to some comic board
October 21, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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A bit more muted of a color palette than I usually work with! All browns and blues. Not the most exciting palette, but I'm hoping it'll make for a really nice cohesive design.

What kinda visuals do you get from these colors?
A palette of cross stitch / embroidery threads. Both DMC and Cosmo brand floss in a range of browns and blues.
October 20, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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I haven't done as much halloween stuff this year, (It's just been so busssyyy) but here's a look back at one of the ones I designed in previous years! And yes it gloes in the dark! 👀
October 16, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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The Alice pattern is now on Etsy! And don't forget there's a video on how I made it into a book!
youtu.be/MzcQUjNnCpU

I'm definitely wanting to make another stitched book.
Dunno when exactly I'll get to it, or which book. But it'll happen.
A rebound copy of Alice in Wonderland featuring a cross stitch cover of Alice's silhouette filled with various motifs from the story. Around it are faux roses, some playing cards, a tea set, and a small bottle filled with pink threads. An Alice in Wonderland cross stitch design next to a copy of the book.
October 15, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Y'all! @needlelotdesigns.bsky.social's book is officially up for preorders! I am SO hype for this book, you've no idea.

All the preorder links are over on her website: www.needlelotdesigns.com/pages/fantas...
The cover of the upcoming book 'Fantasy Cross Stitch' by Iris Kleinbussink (aka NeedleLot Designs). Cover features 4 gorgeous patterns, including a dragon wrapped around a tower, a gryphon, two ravens, and a stained glass window.
October 14, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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I learned to knit October last year. And made exactly two hats.

...I've made nothing since. So despite minimal experience, I decided I was an expert already and I should try something new entirely and learn brioche. 😂 I've only had to frog and restart twice! And I learned how to add lifelines lmao.
A work in progress brioche knitted hat stitched with two yarns held together. One a sparkly black, and the other a sparkly gradient from purple to teal.
October 14, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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This week's pattern is also on printed aida. It's so weird to look at up close but it looks wonderfully stormy from a distance. The camera does not pick up the glitter AT ALL though. It is sparkly. I promise. Imagine the sparkle.
A work in progress cross stitch of a hourglass on printed stormy grey aida.
October 13, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Spellbound Stitches Volume 4 - Under the Sea is available as a PDF (+PK file). I collaborated w/ @thestitchcrypt.com , @lolacrow.bsky.social , @sproutinglupine.bsky.social , @sirithre.bsky.social & @pixelpixiexstitch.bsky.social

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A photo montage of 6 cross stitch patterns. The first are two neon colored electric eels. The second a giant clam. A humpback whale wearing a sea captain's hat and corncob pipe, A giant oarfish with oarfish silhouettes, a harbor seal swimming through tall seaweed, and a large mass of sea coral. Under the Sea Spellbound Stitches. A collaborative collection of patterns designed for COSMO brand floss. PDF available through Nov 5.
October 9, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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Today, the backside of my lost druid. While I wanted those scattered stars and leaves above, I also tried to keep them close enough together to be able to stitch the black outline in one single path without having to jump long distances.
I did have to stop and start again for the stars though. 😂
The back side of a cross stitch design of a skull planter stitched on bright blue aida.
October 9, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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An interesting lil pattern for you this week, inspired by those skull-shaped planters I kept seeing everywhere.
So here's my take on them, in the style of the small ornament designs. I had a lot of fun stitching that leafy hair!
A cross stitch of a skull surrounded by leaves in a vaguely hairlike pattern. a moon on its forehead and small stars surround. A cross stitch of a skull surrounded by leaves in a vaguely hairlike pattern. a moon on its forehead and small stars surround.
October 8, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Been a while since I made a flatfold project. Might be around time to making another! ;)
The tutorial is of course on my website, but I think a video tutorial might be helpful too, so I might film it if I make another!

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A flatfold of Kapp'n from Animal Crossing with the text "Do yer Best! Love the Quest, Life's a Journey! It ain't pass or fail!" The back of a flatfold, featuring a blue quilting cotton with pale blue speckles.
October 7, 2025 at 1:36 PM