About this pattern
This tea shop cross stitch pattern is The Steeping Pot, a soft blue shop with a navy and white striped awning and "Tea" hand-lettered on the sign between two steaming cups. In the window, four tea tins line the shelf, and a pink teapot waits with cups and saucers below.
It's one of five matching shopfronts: Honey Loaf Bakery, Fern & Folio Books, Posy Lane Florist, The Steeping Pot Tea Shop and Two Saucers Café. They share one palette, the same width and the same pavement line, so they hang side by side like a little high street.
What's inside
- Color, black & white and large print charts, plus a Pattern Keeper compatible PDF and an OXS file
- Floss key with DMC numbers and skein amounts (13 colors)
- A real-size preview page, a stitch-time estimate and a progress tracker
Size: 60 x 80 stitches, about 4.3 x 5.7 in on 14 count, so it fits a 5 x 7 inch frame. On 16 count it's 3.8 x 5 in, and on 18 count 3.3 x 4.4 in.
It's about 20 hours of stitching at about 200 stitches an hour (your pace may vary). Full stitches only: no fractional stitches and no backstitch, and the lettering is charted stitch by stitch. It's an intermediate stitch, with lots of small details in the window.
It's lovely for the kitchen or a cozy reading corner, and a sweet gift for a tea lover, your afternoon-tea friend, or anyone who always has the kettle on. I suggest Antique White Aida, as in the preview.
Plus our free beginner cheat sheet and bonus minis with every order.
