Designers & Design Companies

• America School of Needlework - Home of Barbara Baatz's designs! Lots of other great patterns. Can buy directly from site.
• Barbara Thompson - UK based designer of Art Deco & Art Noveau patterns. Some Tiffany inspired designs too.
• Bird Cross Stitch Designs - Designs by Jenny Ramusen. Small selection of charts of birds. Cool gecko design offered for free.
• Black Swan Desings - Designs by Karen Weaver. Great dragons, flower angels and fairies, wizards, snowmen, etc.
• C-Stitch - Patterns of NC, SC, Georgia, & Florida Lighthouses
• Candamar Designs - They offer adaptations of Thomas Kinkade art. Also adaptations of other artwork as well.
• Cathie Farr - Great fantasy and scenic designs adapted from original artwork.
• Character Creations - Computer generated cross-stitch charts. I love designs like this!
• Dakota Winds - Specializing in designs of Southwestern influence
• Debbie Patrick Designs - Very cool designs of Victorian houses & San Francisco landmarks.
• Dragon Dreams Designs - Whimsical designs of dragons and other fantasy inspired XS designs.
• Ellen Maurer-Stroh - Beautifully laid out site. Features her Animal Baby Series.
• Fanta Cats Designs - Design portion of FantasyCrafts.com
• Gerry Buckley Cross-Stitch Designs - Australian based designer with amazing charts. Samplers of various countries of the world. Can dowload charts, have sent on disk or regular mail. Great page of links.
• Golden Kite - they offer a chart of the Pannani painting, "The Picture Gallery". Many other designs offered too.
• Graphs by Barbara & Cheryl - Beautiful landscape and general scenery designs. Some have a very "southern" feel to them that appeals to me.
• Heartland House Designs - Site offers Frank Lloyd Wright designs, tropical fish, Chicago designs, and even a few university buildings. Very unique.
• Heritage Stitchcraft - UK based company that has nice designs. They have a poster series which includes a Titanic chart
• Kooler Design Studio - Home of Donna Kooler, Barbara Baatz and other designers.
• Lanarte - Exqusite kits.
• Lavender & Lace - Beautiful designs. Lots of angels. Charts usually include skin & hair color variations as well. Site includes floss list too. L&L is a division of Told In A Garden..
• Lorrac Designs - They make several Mardi Gras related cross-stitch charts. Several other designs as well.
• Mirabilia - Great patterns of elegant ladies. Includes materials list. Designed by Nora Corbett.
• Nancy Spruance - Designs of Victorian homes. Similar in style to Debbie Patrick.
• Pet-Stitch - UK based designs of pets. Dogs, Cats, Birds, etc.
• Phoneix Stitchery - Designs by Vickey Brickle-Macky. Categories include dragons, fatnasy & horror, angels, wizards, etc.
• Punto Croce Ri-Va - Cool Italian designs.
• Scarlet Quince Designs - Company that converts paintings and art into cross-stitch
• Stichin' Ovations - Designs of fairies, clowns, etc. Simplistic in nature, but interesting. I like the Jamila design under Fantasy. Jamila is an African-American fairy.They are a wholesale seller only.
• Stoney Creek Collections - maker of various xs patterns.
• Stitching Studio - Has patterns based on the paintings of Sue Coleman & Todd Baker
• Teresa Wenztler - Beautiful fantasy-inspired patterns. Contains links to online cross-stitch stores and a TW Cross-Stitchers Bulletin Board.
• Tink Boord-Dill Needlework - Simple designs. Alphabets, Samplers. A few free charts. She is based in KY.
• Tree Trunk Designs - Based in Plymouth, NC. Wide range of designs.
• Ursula Michael Designs - Mostly family, friendship, and inspiration oriented patterns.
• Vermillion Stitchery - Designs by Donna Vermillion Giampa. A lot of fantasy, medeival inspired patterns. Great site!
• Whispered by the Wind - Designs by Mari McDonald of beautifully dressed ladies. Similar in styles to L&L and Mirabilia
• Witches Stitches - only a few designs available. Designs are "magical" in nature.
• Various links to desingers

Stitcher Galleries

• Teresa Wentzler Stitcher's Links- the "original" gallery site! Browse completed and in progress pieces of Teresa Wentzler
• Mirabilia/LL/BR/TIAG Stitcher's Galleries - Another of my sites - browse completed and in progress pieces by Mirabilia, Lavender & Lace, Butternut Road and Told in a Garden.
• Shepherd's Bush Stitchers Gallery
• General Stitchers Links - Browse through listing of people who are stitching the designs of various companies.
• CyberStitchers.com - another online gallery for people to show off their cross-stitch projects. Has additional features.
• Stitchers-Gallery.com - Hazel's site for hosting xs albums.

Retailers

• 1-2-3 Stitch - General store. Offers patterns, supplies, & special requests.
• All Stitched Up - Over 20,000 designs. They also sell fabrics, kits, & tools.
• Cottage Discount Neeldework - Also sells needlepoint & crewel supplies.
• Craft Mailbox (AU)
• Creative Hand Shoppe - Very nice site. Lots of different designers.
• Creative Leisure Craftrs (AU) - Australian site that sells mostly kits.
• Cross Country Shopping - not very sophisticated site. Producers of Cross Country Stitching Magazine.
• Cross Stitch & More - Great LNS in Gainesville, Florida!
• Cross Stitch Collectibles - Site that sells adaptations of fine art paintings.
• Deby-Lynn's Tapestry Desings in Cross-Stitch - Patterns of paintings offered and custom made.
• Dreams Come True Designs - Site offers many charts. Designers include True Colors, Camelot Designs (castles), Vermillion, Dragon Dreams, Pegasus Originals,StitchWorld, Stoney Creek, & Candamar(Thomas Kinkade). GREAT SITE!
• Elegant Stitch - Cross-stitch store in Modesto, CA.
• Fabrics 2 U - LNS in Birmingham, AL. In addition to fabric, Kim sells all kinds of XS supplies.
• Fantasy Crafts - Cool site for fantasy designs. Based in Grafton, WI.
• Find Stitch - nicely categorized site.
• Gallery of Original Cross-Stitch Designs - Can get membership to download original patterns.
• Herrschners - General supply site. Great choices for fabric.
• Hoffman Distributing - Online pattern catalogue. Thousands of designs. Extensive listing of cross-stitch shops over the country.
• Hook-N-Needle- Small selection of designs. Have Bucilla & Dimension kits among others. Based in Westport, CT.
• Imaginating - Site offers a variety of charts for sale.
• Kits To Stitch - cross-stitch kits for sale.
• Marilyn's Catalog- Offers the complete Stoney Creek line. Also carries cross-stitch supplies.
• Mary Jane's Cross-N-Stitch - Online store. Catalog is search only, no browsing feature. Based in Illinois.
• Nordic Needle - General supply site. Produce yearly catalog. Exclusive US Distributor or Eva Rosenstand/Clara Weaver Company. Based in IL.
• Paw Prints Cross Stitch - Large selection of charts by many different designers. They offer fabric, kits, framing supplies and more. Nice selection of Debbie Patrick designs.
• Pinn Stitch - Cool Asian designs. Chinese, Thai & Buddhist inspired patterns.
• Punto X - Mexican patterns. Offers kits and accessories. Tend to be simplistic. Site still under construction.
• Robin's Nest Design - LNS in Durham, NC. Robin also offers custom designing.
• Rocking Horse - Online store based in Michigan. Lots of variety of charts.
• Salt-N-Pepper - Site with many different charts. Wentzler, Bucilla, Disney, Mirabilia, Lavendar & Lace, Black Swan, De La Tour, Pegasus, Cross My Heart and others.
• Shamrock Cross-Stitch - Shop based in Missouri. Great source for buying fabric. They offer various kits, leaflets and supplies.
• Sew & So - UK based online shop. Cross-stitch, needlework, embroidery supplies. Can browse by subject and search. Bucilla kits and many others.
• Silkweaver Fabrics - Wonderful place to buy fabric. They sell Murano, Lugana, Quaker Cloth in many different colors and variable sizes.
• The Stitchery - Online cross stich shop. Produce yearly catalog. Lots of interesting kits for sale. Based in MA.
• Stitching Post - Great LNS in Baltimore, MD.
• Stitchery Nook - Distributor for Poppie Designs. Shop based in Des Moines, IA. Offer finishing services for pillows, etc. Specialty frames for sale too.
• Tink Boord-Dill Needlework - Free charts, unique charts. Alphabets, Samplers.
• Uncharted Territory - Great site with cross stitch charts of fine art masterpieces! Over 500 charts offered and they also take requests. Charts are $25 each
• Web-Stitch - Site offers designs from all over the world! Not a large selection, but designs are a nice sample of various cultures.