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{Monday Moods at DIY Weddings} I Capture the Castle

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 I Capture the Castle Wedding Inspiration via Hey Wedding Lady

Have you read the book I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith? It’s one of my all-time favorites, so I was delighted to see this beautiful inspiration board at Hey Wedding Lady that’s based on the book! Pretty shades of blue, peach, and ivory evoke the beauty of an English garden and capture the charm of the story perfectly. Click here for all the details. On a side note, if the name Dodie Smith sounds vaguely familiar it may be because she was also the author of the beloved children’s classic 101 Dalmatians!

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Designer Spotlight: Sawanita

Sawanita is an Etsy shop with a heavy focus on Christmas and winter designs, folk art and projects that look like quilt blocks.

The project that first caught my eye from this shop was this set of Scandinavian style birds. In the little picture on the front page of the shop they reminded me of postage stamps, but they’re a lot bigger and more detailed than stamps. And while they look complicated, each one only uses five or six colors.

Each design is 160 by 160 stitches, which comes out to 29 cm or 11.43 inches square on 14 count fabric. The listing includes other counts if you want to make them smaller. But I think they’d be great at that size all hung in a group as if it were one image. That’s a big project but so fun, too.

In addition to these birds you’ll find lots of pretty snowflake designs, Christmas houses and nutcrackers, some really cute ghosts, and a few lovely designs with witches that kind of remind me of woodcuts. There are also some fun nature inspired patterns including samplers of snowy owls, colorful frogs and fanciful mushrooms.

The section titled ornament cross stitch is full of colorful and intricate designs, like Quaker blocks worked in a rainbow of colors, Gothic hearts that look like some kind of ancient medal and some super colorful and detailed lanterns I shared the other day in my Ramadan cross stitch patterns post.

The shop doesn’t have a huge selection, but they’re all interesting and worth taking a look at if you’re into traditional designs with a modern twist. Check them out at Sawanita on Etsy.

If you have an Etsy shop or love to shop somewhere I haven’t featured before, let me know! You can tell me all about your favorite shop by clicking “suggest a DIY” at the top of the page.

[Photo: Sawanita]