Christmas Design Trends to Use in Needlepoint

A recent blog post from Etsy pointed out several designs trends significant this year. Several of these are ones you can incorporate in your needlepoint.

Expanded Color Palettes is a trend that just keeps on going. Holiday decorations are going way beyond the traditional blue-white-silver for Hanukkah and red-green-gold for Christmas. Think outside these boxes for your new projects. Etsy identifies ” colorful, pastel, or neon” colors and jewel tones as popular combinations this year. You can do this easily by using a canvas you have and picking a different palette for it, Or pull out your threads in one of these combos and make one or more of the many free projects on this site or linked from it.

Vintage Brooches Wearing and using these is becoming more popular and you can incorporate this trend in many ways. If you have a vintage brooch you love, why not make it the centerpiece of a project? Perhaps you might want to use one to look for current or vintage canvases in the same style. Second, you could stitch a project in colors from these items. Finally, you could stitch one of Libby Sturdy’s Christmas Trees, all based on vintage brooch designs.

Checkerboard Patterns: are classic and continue to be very popular. Consider unexpected ways to add these patterns to your needlepoint. Could you make some gingham ornaments? Could you create a subtle checked background of needlepoint damask in two textures of threads? How else might you use checks?

Organic Influences: The post points out that organic items in a pale wintry palette are growing in popularity. Think driftwood, dried flowers, mushrooms, and woodland creatures. Look particularly for designs with a rustic look. Do you have projects like this to add to your decor?

I have several new canvases that would be perfect for some of these ideas. Now I need to get stitching faster,