Our Contest Is Over!

Congratulations to Sarah, Acacia and Heidi for guessing that our mystery man was Kenneth Ellen Parcell from 30 Rock! They all won advance copies of this Wednesday's pattern, which features several of the 30 Rock cast done up in an 8-bit inspired pixel art-style.

"I feel like I'm in The Pelican Brief! Do I already know too much?"

Stay tuned for Wednesday's pattern, more giveaways, and more Etsy love!

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#ifeelallcarsickinside #hesthebestfriendiveeverhad...tiedwitheveryonei'veevermet #lovemesomecontests

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Free Cross Stitch Pattern Giveaway!

Congratulations to Sarah for correctly guessing who our mystery character is! That means there's just two patterns left for you guys to win, in our first pattern giveaway contest. We've added another clue to help you guess this mister's true identity. Contest is over folks! Thanks to everyone who participated!


This fella is from one of today's funniest sitcoms, and he has a *lady's* middle name. Tricky eh? Email us your guess to win the full advance copy of the pattern.

Aren't contests exciting? Stay tuned to see who our final winners are, our top ten favourite Wizard of Oz listings on Etsy, and more giveaways.

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Cross Stitch Pattern Giveaway Contest

We're super excited about next week's cross stitch pattern featuring the cast of one of our currently running, favourite hilarious hit shows. It's going in our shop next Wednesday, but we're so stoked about it that we decided to give our loyal blog/Twitter/Facebook fans a chance to win a free advanced copy of this awesome pattern.

Here's the deal: Check out the pic below and email your guess as to what character it is, to us at crossstitchheroes@gmail.com. The first 3 people to guess correctly win the pattern! It's as simple as that! Contest is over everyone! Thanks to all of you who shared their guesses! And congrats go out to Sarah, Acacia and Heidi for guessing that this fella was Kenneth from 30 Rock!

Well, that's what's new here. Hope you guys have a lovely Thursday! Stay tuned to see our winners, some nifty mash-ups and more geekery.

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#whoishe #ilovepatterngiveaways #hint:wehaven'tdoneapatternfromthisshowyet

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Another Arrested Development Cross Stitch Pattern

It's Wednesday, which means new comic books and a new cross stitch pattern in our Etsy shop! Exciting stuff is afoot!

This week's cross stitch pattern is another one based on one of our favourite TV shows - Arrested Development! We love that show big-time. This pattern goes out to all those crazy Bluth's who obviously haven't ever seen a real chicken.

It cracks me up every time. What's your favourite Arrested Development running gag? Stay tuned for more fun, more patterns and probably more Arrested Development!

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Skottie Young Blog Love

Jesse is amazing, and I'm not just saying that because he's the best husband ever. In addition to making adorable cross stitch patterns he is awesome at introducing me to fantastic artists and blogs he's unearthed on the internet. My most recent blog introduction was to skottieyoung.com and I am so delighted!

Lately Skottie Young has been involved with the Avengers vs. X-Men project and has been integral to the Marvel Oz series. More than that, his daily sketches have won me over. Check out some of his work!

Isn't he the greatest? I just love that drawing of Rocket Raccoon! And that's just a tiny bit of his work. Go check him out and buy his stuff here!

Stay tuned for more of our favourite blogs, artists and patterns.

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#bloglove #batmanisadummyhead #babyhulksmoosh

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Mystery Science Theatre 3000 on Etsy

So as you might have noticed by our Wookie the Chew post, I love me some Star Wars mash-ups. This t-shirt mashes two of my favourite things - Star Wars and Mystery Science Theatre 3000. Tom Servo as R2-D2! Can it get any better?

Mystery Science Theater and Star Wars Mash-Up - via Fashionably Geek

I haven't seen that much MST3K fan art in awhile, so after finding that t-shirt I went on an Etsy bender to discover more fantastic Mystery Science stuff! Unfortunately it was a very short-lived bender. We need more awesome, people! Here's a few samples of what I found:

Tom Servo Print by TimmyK

Blank Card Set by TwoHungryBlackbirds

Tom Servo Necklace by PicaPicaPress

You can probably tell that our favourite MST3K character is little Tom Servo. Also I think that necklace would make a super bottle opener! Someone with mad metal skills should do that. I would buy it.

Stay tuned for more awesome geekery, more Cross Stitch Heroes, and more general awesomeness.

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The Dark Knight Cross Stitch Pattern

Recently a super-nice customer requested us to do a custom pattern for her with some of our existing Batman characters and few that we hadn't created yet. This helped to inspire our latest Batman pattern - The Dark Knight. Thanks Rikki! Check it out:

I'm surprised at how scary I find Joker and Two-Face even in 8-bit inspired form! Love it! Stay tuned for tomfoolery, antics and lollygaggin' of all sorts.

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#whysoserious #morganfreemaniscoolinretro8bitform #morepeopleshouldsaytomfoolery