If you follow us on Instagram or if you have had read other articles on this website, you probably noticed our love for fairytales. We love the fairytale theme for both our cross stitch as well as our embroidery projects. A few months ago I started Soda Stitch fairytales cross stitch patterns and I would love to tell you more about it.
Soda Stitch is a South-Korean company that designs cross stitch patterns. They have many fairytale patterns, such as Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan and Snow White. But they also have for example animals, seasons and cakes. They are designed in their distinguished own style.
I first noticed the Soda Stitch patterns a few years ago online. In particular on Instagram. I though the finished pieces looked absolutely beautiful. However, at the same time I also found them a tad, and for lack of a better for, childlike. I do not mean this in a negative way. But compared to the Veronique Enginger patterns that I normally love to cross stitch, the Soda Stitch patterns it have a more childlike style in my opinion.
My first ‘Soda Stitch’ project
But because I am such a fan of the fairytale theme en because I have cross stitched most of Veronique Enginger’s designs by now, I really wanted to give the Soda Stitch patterns a try.
Soda Stitch has two ‘Fairy Tale Land’ cross stitch patterns (which you can find here) in which they have collected several fairytales. Fairy Tale 2 grasped my attention with Aurora and Cinderella. I was not particularly interested in cross stitching the entire pattern, but rather certain sections of it. So I started off with Aurora.
Although the Soda Stitch patterns have many colors, I did not find the pattern extremely difficult to cross stitch. This is because the pattern itself is not very large. I do have to say that I would not recommend these patterns to beginners. This is not only due to the high number of colors involved, but also because it has quite a lot of backstitch to it. In the picture above on the right, you can see the result of the cross stitches before the backstitch. Below you can find the result with the backstitch.
I’ll share my second Soda Stitch project in my next post. And it involves something really yummy!
