Dark Folk Horror: 8 Diamond Cross Stitch Patterns for Adults, With a Complete Beginner's Guide

Leave something out for them. It is safer.A ring of fly agaric under a thin moon. A raven on a bare branch in front of a moon that has turned the colour of old blood. A stag skull the moss has taken back. A horned goat waiting under a gold crescent, a moth with a small skull worn on its back, a scarecrow nobody remembers raising, three candles left at the edge of a field, and a chapel with its windows lit that nobody has lived in for years.Eight original cross stitch charts drawn from country folklore, each a mini diamond of 55 x 79 stitches, about 3.4 x 4.9 inches on 16-count fabric.What's inside- 8 original charts, each printed as a two-page spread- A picture of the finished piece beside every chart, with the full DMC thread key on the same page- Large full-color symbol charts: a symbol in every square, bold lines every ten, center arrows on all four sides, backstitch listed separately- A complete guide for first-time stitchers: fabric, needles and floss, finding the center, forming a cross, starting and ending threads without knots, reading a chart, backstitch, parking threads, and finishing in a hoop or frame- A page on working dark, full-coverage backgrounds - most of these designs are stitched on black, and black is where the skill is- Shopping list, finishing ideas and a stitching logWho this is forAdult stitchers who want something with real atmosphere: gothic, cottagecore-gone-wrong, folk horror, dark academia. These are a proper challenge because the backgrounds are stitched edge to edge, but each diamond is small enough to finish in a few evenings and looks like a small painting once framed.All colors are DMC. Stitch them for yourself, as gifts, or to sell as finished handmade pieces.Book 3 in the Diamond Cross Stitch series, which begins with Witchy Cats.