Adrienne of Martini Made e-mailed me to ask about pumpkin cross-stitch patterns: where could she find them, and what were my favoritesI'm sure I'm not revealing any industry secret when I direct you all to Hoffman Distributing's website. Hoffman is the world's "leading" cross-stitch pattern distributor. They don't have everything--most of the designers they carry are American, they don't carry all of the American designers, or even the whole of each designer's oeuvre. Still, they've got a lot of it. You can search their catalog three ways--by designer, by keyword, and by category.
I did a keyword on pumpkins, and came up with 254 designs. That does include punchneedle designs, and some where the pumpkin was really not central to the design. I started out to find all the cross-stitch patterns that featured a pumpkin, but found myself getting distracted. Even designs called things like “Just Pumpkins” weren’t just pumpkins. Then sometimes I just didn’t like the pattern, so I didn’t include it. And because, in another life, I should have been the official listmaker of the web, I present...
The Great Pumpkin List
(all of these can be viewed at the Hoffman website)
- 4 My Boys Pumpkins Three for Thee*
- Angel Stitchin’ Country Pumpkin
- Bent Creek October Curls
- Bent Creek Autumn Snapperland
- Bent Creek Pumpkin Patch
- Bent Creek Snapperville Pumpkin Farm
- Blackbird Designs Fine Collection (October)
- Bushmountain Walking Mooncat Pumpkin
- By the Bay Pumpkin Hill
- By the Bay White Pumpkin Patch
- Cedar Hill Pumpkin Patch
- Cricket Collection Frost is on the Pumpkin *
- Cross Eyed Cricket Seasonings
- Ewe & Eye & Friends Pumpkin scissor companion
- Ewe & Eye & Friends Scary Pumpkin
- Elizabeth’s Designs Pumpkins
- Full Circle Designs Punkin’ Patches
- Glendon Place Pretty Pumpkins
- Heart in Hand Little Pumpkin in the Patch
- Heart in Hand Monthly mania—October
- Heart in Hand Perfect Pumpkin
- Heart in Hand Pumpkin Hill
- Heart in Hand Pumpkins (Wee Ones)
- Heart in Hand Pumpkins Galore
- Heart in Hand Pumpkins Three (Wee Ones)
- Hillside Samplings Party Pumpkin
- Hillside Samplings Pickled Pumpkin
- Homespun Elegance Pumpkins Aplenty I & II
- Homespun Elegance Shabby Chic Autumn
- JBW Designs French Country Pumpkin
- Just CrossStitch Pumpkin Patch Pillow
- Katidid Designs Too Cute for Pie
- Knotted Tree Pumpkin Topiary
- Liberty Street Checklet Pumpkin Collection
- Liberty Street Pumpkin Alley
- Lilybet Designs Pumpkin Row
- Lizzie Kate Autumn ABCs
- Lizzie Kate Plumpkin
- Mosey N Me Sitting Pretty
- Mystic Stitch Pumpkins (scary)
- Plum Pudding Harvest Thyme
- Prairie Grove Peddlar Pumpkin Time
- Samsarah Autumn Crow
- Samsarah Full Moon Pumpkin Farm
- Sekas & Co Pumpkin Row
- Sekas & Co Pumpkin Square
- Sekas & Co Watercolour Pumpkin Patch
- Sisters & BF Thanks Be To God
- Sisters & BF Punkin’ Head
- Sisters &BF Autumn Thanks
- Sisters &BF Button Borders: Pumpkins *
- Sunflower Seed Celtic Pumpkin
- Sweetheart Tree Pumpkin Patch
- Trail Creek Farm Pumpkin Love
- Twisted Threads Pumpkin Gingham
- Whimsey and Wit Pumpkin Pie
If you would like to own some of these patterns, and your LNS won't order them for you, Elegant Stitch has a shopping cart where you can shop Hoffman through them. (Elegant Stitch processes the orders, so it may take a little extra time.) They'll give you 20% off your order.
Also, I once stitched a Little River freebie "Harvest Moon" (very cute, companion piece to "Welcome to the Pumpkin Patch") which I cannot find anywhere! While I was looking, I did find a pumpkin freebie from Homespun Elegance.
Just to prove that Hoffman doesn't carry everything, these patterns are in my collection but not on the Hoffman site:
- 4 My Boys Autumn Square
- Heart's Content French Harvest
- Hillside Samplings Jack O' Lantern (hardanger)
- Historic Needlework Guild Seasonal Pins Two
- Marilynn and Jackie's Collectibles Ribbon Pumpkin**
- Sheepish Designs Scarry (sic) Wabbit
- Threadbear Creations Peter, Peter Pumpkin Eater
- Twisted Threads Sweetie Peetie Pumpkin
- Twisted Threads Itty Bitty Trio of Pumpkins (This is OOP. I did find it for sale online.)
- Window Garden Designs Pumpkin Sampler
*A favorite of mine.
** Could not find in an online store.
7 comments:
How appropriate! I am currently stitching Twisted Threads Pumpkin Trio. And I will probably be stitching more pumpkins for the next two months.
Thanks for the link to Bella Dia. I'm going to try the alphabet life myself. I'll see how long I keep it up.
Wow, all that work over a pumpkin, I do admire you!
xxx
There's just something so pleasingly homey and perfect about a pumpikin, isn't there. :D
Well, you spent some time on this, didn't you?
You are definitely the Queen of Lists, and my go-to gal for anything I need to know, even if I didn't know I wanted to know it. I like the ribbon pumpkin - cute! I'll have to check some of these out.
I am speechless. Thanks for taking the time to do this. I bow before your mighty organizational prowess.
WOW so many pumpkin patterns.
Joanne
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