pattern // spongebob's indoors cross stitch chart

Okay, so right now everyone is encouraged to stay home. And some fine folks have started making free patterns to go along with this. Both to express the sentiment and to give you something to work on during your social distancing, sheltering in place, or full-on quarantine. And a song came to mind.

In one of my favorite episodes ever, Spongebob Squarepants sings a song that I've always related to and that is especially appropriate now. It goes like this:

I know of a place where you never get harmed
A magical place with magical charms
Indoors
Indoors
Innnnnndoors!

Since I like staying home AND since I've had to be careful in the sun, it's not unusual for me to sing this. So why wouldn't I make a cross stitch pattern of it?!? To give it a little Spongebob flair, I chose a color palette that feels reminiscent of the show. But you could change it up if you want.

DOWNLOAD THE INDOORS CROSS STITCH PATTERN PDF

Stay safe friends. Remember that staying home may be less about protecting yourself from COVID-19 and more about protecting those for whom it could be fatal. This is showing love to your neighbors near and far.

pattern // kawaii crossing pizzeria embroidery pattern

It's embroidery time! This little pizzeria is ready to serve up some stitching fun (and maybe a slice or two). Embroidering pizza is always fun, but I'd like to think it's even better when the pizza is also the pizza shop, right?

So, inside the PDF for this little free pattern, you'll find the small version of the pattern (perfect for making a Kawaii Crossing Mini Quilt) with a color guide and a larger version that you can use for stitching...well...larger things.

What you won't find is a stitch guide because I think you can have fun using the stitches you like. However, if you want some ideas, I usually outline things in back stitch. For thicker lines, I like chain stitch. The pepperoni and mushrooms, and maybe the crust too, would look great in satin stitch. And for the face I always use French knots and a scallop stitch.

DOWNLOAD THE PDF PIZZERIA EMBROIDERY PATTERN

When you stitch this, be sure to share your work! Tag me (@molliejohanson) and use the hashtag #wildolivestitchingclub or #kawaiicrossing so everyone can see.

I hope you're hungry because I'm still working on even more pizza goodness for this month. But for now, I'd love to hear what's your favorite pizza topping?

printable // philippians 4:6-7 coloring picture

Feeling worried and anxious? Maybe you don't feel it as fear, but the fear all around you is still bringing you down. I have two suggestions! First, coloring is often found to help calm anxieties, so I have a free PDF coloring picture for you! But there's more, and it's right there on the coloring page.

Actually, this isn't my suggestion. This comes from the Bible, so personally, I believe it's even better than coloring. A lot better.

"Don’t fret or worry. Instead of worrying, pray. Let petitions and praises shape your worries into prayers, letting God know your concerns. Before you know it, a sense of God’s wholeness, everything coming together for good, will come and settle you down. It’s wonderful what happens when Christ displaces worry at the center of your life."

Philippians 4:6-7 (The Message)

DOWNLOAD THE PHILIPPIANS 4:6-7 COLORING PICTURE PDF

The coloring picture is a shortened version of the verse, and I included the parts that especially spoke to my heart.

And here's the good news! You can color AND pray at the same time! So as you calm your worries with art you can also invite Jesus to carry your anxieties because he cares for you.

May the peace of Christ be with you, my friends!

pattern // kawaii crossing pizzeria cross stitch

On a list of things that I'm grateful for, I recently included cross stitches because stitching this pizzeria pattern really just made me happy! And I hope that the Kawaii Crossing pizza-shaped restaurant makes you happy too!

I'm also excited to show off that I'm officially all caught up from my stitching last month. Woohoo! And just in time because I've been seeing pictures popping up on Instagram showing off progress and fun modifications like stitching on dark fabric to make it a nighttime scene, or changing out the flowers for benches. You all are amazing!

And now you can add to your little town as I have.

By the way, my dad would be very happy with the layout of this happy village. You see, every time he eats pizza, he always goes looking for chocolate as a treat afterward. If he visits the pizzeria, he can stop by the chocolatier next door!

DOWNLOAD THE MARCH KAWAII CROSSING CROSS STITCH PDF

DOWNLOAD THE PDF PIZZERIA CROSS STITCH PATTERN

I can't wait to see your stitches! Be sure to tag me (@molliejohanson) on Instagram and/or use the tag #kawaiicrossing or #wildolivestitchingclub so all can see.

Sharing free patterns is one of my favorite things and I appreciate every kind of support. I'd love it if you tell your friends about my patterns, share my posts on social media, or buy me a coffee via the link below (because I pretty much run on coffee and Jesus!). Thanks, friends!

calendar // march's kawaii crossing pizzeria wallpaper

Are you ready for a new month, new wallpapers, and a new shop in the happy little town of Kawaii Crossing? For March, we're visiting the pizzeria. And as expected this restaurant is shaped like what it sells: pizza!

At first, you may think that a shop that looks like a slice of pizza might be far-fetched. But in an A-frame building, this could be a reality. While I have no plans to open a pizzeria of my own, if I did, I would make it look just like the one in Kawaii Crossing. Complete with the face. If you consider this for your own future business endeavor, I might be persuaded to let you use my idea. For the love of kawaii pizza, of course!

But before we start shopping for pizza ovens, how about some wallpapers to help inspire?

Download the Desktop Wallpaper

Download the iPhone Wallpaper

Download the iPad Wallpaper

And soon I hope to bring you even more pizza fun. (If I get all my other deadlines done, there may even be a few extras this month...wish me luck!) Because can you think of a more perfect food than super cute pizza?

pattern // kawaii crossing chocolatier embroidery pattern

Even on leap year, February seems to speed by and before you know it you've nearly run out of month in which to release the newest Kawaii Crossing embroidery pattern. But it's here at last and you can now stitch your very own heart-shaped chocolatier.

We won't talk about Valentine's Day being over because you can always give a heart box of chocolates to someone special.

DOWNLOAD THE PDF CHOCOLATIER EMBROIDERY PATTERN

The pattern PDF includes two sizes. One is small for the EPP mini quilt I planned out (see my previous post for that) and one is large for making a Kawaii Crossing garland. Have I made a tutorial for that yet? NO! I may be running behind in more than one way these days.

I'll keep this post short and chocolatey sweet so I can get to work on things for next month. Because I have a fun design to get drawing!

pattern // kawaii crossing valentine chocolatier cross stitch

It's nearly mid-February, and that means you probably should have thought about a gift for your sweetheart by now. Even if you're your own sweetheart. It also means that I probably should release a new pattern which you could, if you hurry, stitch for your sweetheart (or at least gift yourself some stitching time).

So today I present to you the cross stitch pattern for the Kawaii Crossing Chocolatier! My stitching time has been limited, which you may have surmised from the photo above. Perhaps I need to have a stitching night on the 14th?

I really love the idea of going to a chocolate shop that looks like a box of chocolates, don't you? Also, true story: I considered putting a chocolate fountain in the window of the shop, but I skipped it because I think they're gross. Maybe I watch Augustus Gloop gulping down and falling into chocolate in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory too many times.

Anyway, right next to the sewing shop is the chocolatier, and you can add it to your growing design or stitch it on its own. I'll make you actually click on the PDFs to see what I haven't yet stitched.

DOWNLOAD THE FEBRUARY KAWAII CROSSING CROSS STITCH PDF

DOWNLOAD THE PDF CHOCOLATIER CROSS STITCH PATTERN

calendar // february's kawaii crossing chocolatier wallpaper

Friends, I love February. I love that in a month that is still usually very gray and snowy where I live, it's also a month of pink and hearts. I've said it before and I'll say it again...this is all very lovely and I am here for it.

This is also an excellent month for chocolate. Which is why the newest Kawaii Crossing shop is a chocolatier! And it happens to look a whole lot like a box of Valentine chocolates. Although, honestly, anyone who wants to give me a box of chocolates can make it a heart box any time of year. I do love chocolate.

Inside this shop, I imagine cases filled with fancy treats. In the back are giant copper kettles, with employees always making something new. And of course, you can smell the divine aromas before, during, and after your visit. Oh yes!

I think I had better give you the links to these one-size-fits-most calendars so you can download and enjoy! Because now I need to go find some chocolate...

Download the Desktop Wallpaper

Download the iPhone Wallpaper

Download the iPad Wallpaper

pattern // kawaii crossing sewing shop embroidery design + epp mini quilt

Embroidery fans, it's your turn to get started on the Kawaii Crossing patterns for 2020! As you may have seen already, this first design is for a happy little thimble that happens to house a sewing shop. Because every year should start with sewing and crafting and stitching of some kind, right?

Now, I have a tendency to want to do all the things in a very unrealistic sort of way. When I decided to commit to only doing the cross stitch version of each of these patterns each month, I had no idea how hard it would be to resist doing the embroidery too. There's a very real chance that I will stitch up at least a few along the way. But I'm at least trying to start the year by giving myself fewer things to work on.

Which is why you don't see an embroidered example above. In the free pattern below, you'll find the following: a color sample, the pattern, the pattern reversed, and a larger version of the pattern/reversed version. You can stitch the pattern with whatever embroidery stitches you like. I'm partial to back stitch, french knot, scallop stitch, and chain stitch for thicker lines.

DOWNLOAD THE PDF SEWING SHOP EMBROIDERY PATTERN

The larger pattern size is for making a project idea that I'll share soon. Spoiler: It's a Kawaii Crossing banner! If you want to wait for that, it will be a week or so before I post the tutorial.

The smaller pattern size is for another EPP mini quilt!



Again, I'm not going to be stitching this up (unless I give in!), but I thought it would be fun to make a design you could use. Each embroidery pattern fits on a house shape EPP piece, then they line up to make little rows of shops with roadway pieces. The stripes on the road are a perfect way to quilt this by hand! And of course, you can make the house shapes with the embroidery any color you want. But it could be fun to make it rainbow!

DOWNLOAD THE PDF KAWAII CROSSING EPP MINI QUILT PATTERN PIECES

As with all my patterns, be sure to print everything at 100% (or all pieces at the same percentage) so that things match up. If you have any questions, I'll do my best to help you out!

Oh, and for those who asked for the cross stitch patterns as individual charts, here's the link to download the first one! Going forward these will be posted along with the updated larger chart.

DOWNLOAD THE PDF SEWING SHOP CROSS STITCH PATTERN

pattern // kawaii crossing golden thimble cross stitch

It's time to start stitching at Kawaii Crossing! Okay, so I've actually already been stitching, but now you can join me. And the fun begins with a free cross stitch chart. The first of 12, which really are one big pattern...

Last year I stitched (almost) all the embroidery designs and simply shared the cross stitch patterns. This year I want to stitch the cross stitch because I've really loved this needlework lately. Embroidery fans: fear not, this month's pattern is coming soon and I even have a mini quilt design you can make with EPP.

AND I have another project idea that I'll share soon that works for either the embroidery or the cross stitch patterns. I may be overly ambitious, but I can at least share how these would work, even if I can't make them all myself, right?

But back to the cross stitch. In this free download, you'll see the streets of Kawaii Crossing. They're a little bare right now, with only the Golden Thimble sewing shop along the first lane. But each month this chart will fill in a little more.

The PDF includes all the colors needed for the entire year. It also has those streets and ends so you can work ahead on those if you want. Everything else will fill in kinda like you see with the first one.

DOWNLOAD THE JANUARY KAWAII CROSSING CROSS STITCH PDF

I chose natural 16-count Aida for mine, but in hindsight, I sorta wish I'd gone with something like aqua to be the sky. Originally I'd planned on white, but JoAnn Fabric and Crafts threw a wrench in that...a tale for another day. Anyway, I like the slightly smaller count, and I work with two strands for everything, including the backstitch and french knot eyes.

If you don't want to make the whole design, stitching just the thimble shop part of the pattern should be easy enough. But if it would help to have a separate PDF for each shop (like I did with the jam jars last year), please let me know!

UPDATE: Here's the sewing shop on it's own:

DOWNLOAD THE PDF SEWING SHOP CROSS STITCH PATTERN

Okay! So that's this new pattern for you! I'm really loving where this is going and look forward to sharing each new stop in my Kawaii Crossing series this year!