The Haunted Library - Digital PDF Cross Stitch Pattern

Welcome to the "Haunted Library" Halloween stitch-along!

The stitch along ended October 2022, but the full pattern is now available. The individual sections ("chapters") are also included, for your reference, compiled into a single file, in case you want to stitch in the same order that they were originally released.

Instant download PDF pattern.
No physical items will be shipped.

This cross stitch features a spooky (and cute) library scene, packed with books and haunted by ghosts, literary characters and an author or two. Stitch the library of your dreams and your nightmares.

Pattern release schedule (all are now included for instant download with purchase of this listing):

- Prologue: It Begins on the Stairs
This section is mostly structural and will establish the framework for the library scene.

- Chapter 1: The Dead Librarian

- Chapter 2: Buried in a Book

- Chapter 3: The Watcher on the Bookcase

- Chapter 4: The Tell-Tale Top Shelf

- Chapter 5: Book Club with the Count

- Chapter 6: The Horseless Headless Horseman

- Chapter 7: The Monster of Antiquity

- Chapter 8: Long Live the King

- Chapter 9: The Ghost of Books Yet to Read

- Chapter 10: She Created a Man who Created a Monster


The skill level of this stitch-along is advanced beginner/intermediate. There is some color shading and a very small amount of back stitching.

Suggested fabric: "Vintage Country Mocha" (linen or aida) by Zweigart.

The design is 174 x 161 stitches.

Size:
14 ct: 12.4 x 11.6 inches, 31.6 x 29.6 cm
16 ct: 10.9 x 10.2 inches, 27.6 x 25.9 cm
18 ct: 9.7 x 9.1 inches, 24.6 x 23.0 cm

27 DMC colors used (one skein or less, unless otherwise specified):
DMC 8, DMC 154, DMC 310 (4 skeins), DMC 451, DMC 452, DMC 645, DMC 646, DMC 648, DMC 720, DMC 782, DMC 783, DMC 814, DMC 815, DMC 840, DMC 844, DMC 920, DMC 924, DMC 926, DMC 927, DMC 3031 (2 skeins), DMC 3051, DMC 3052, DMC 3808, DMC 3809, DMC 3834, DMC Ecru, DMC White.

PDF pattern files will include the following pages:

- Sample picture of the finished piece
- Instructions and details including colors and amounts of thread needed
- Pattern on a single page for use with phones/tablets
- Pattern with black and white symbols on multiple pages (large format)
- Pattern with color block and symbols on multiple pages (large format)
- Separate PDF file optimized for import into pattern keeper