I’ve ferociously curated my Reddit feed so that it’s all books and crafts and adorable animals and a low-key happiness dose.
Recently, on r/CrossStitch, a cross stitch reading tracker was shared, and oh, my gosh, the noise I made:
LOOK how CUTE this is: (embedded for ALT text purposes)
I know we just shared our nifty-difty Reading Tracking Spreadsheet, but if you want to get crafty about it, grab your embroidery floss, because I have some patterns for you.
First, if you want a pattern that is very similar to the above: the 100 Books 2023 Reading Goal Tracker pattern is $8 on Etsy from StirCrazyCrafterUK.
There are a bunch of customizable options inside the pattern, too.
This one comes with 24 or 42 book options, but reviews say that the designer can customize to over 200 titles:
Book Tracker Pattern by My Precious Stitches, $6.50
I love the tiny plants on the shelves!
If you’d like to track ratings instead of genre, this pattern color codes your star ratings (though I bet you could customize with colors for genre instead of stars, if you wanted to!)
2023 Book Star Rating Tracker by SunsetGiftz, $11.02
Daily Weather or Mood Tracker Bookshelf from Wicked Stitch, $15.00
This is a mood or weather tracking pattern, not reading, but it was so charming and beautiful (CAT! Plants! Tiny GEODES!) I wanted to include it. There are 365 books, and you could easily customize this pattern to track whatever you like.
And finally, this pattern is really gorgeous:
104 Book Reading Tracker Bookshelf by Stitching Cabin Co, $9.04
I love this pattern – the tiny plants! The wee elephant! I also like how the color coding can be adapted, and 104 books is plenty of space for a year of reading.
Have you thought about crafting your reading tracker? Any patterns you recommend?
Related, I saw a 2022 wrap up on YouTube the other day where they’d knitted a “genre blanket.”
Each genre they read during the year had been assigned a color, so the more they read of a genre, the more stripes of that color there were.
Sadly, I don’t remember the channel.
Wow, super tempted even though I haven’t cross stitched in decades. I really like the last one with the legend and elephant.
This is the coolest, most creative idea I’ve seen in a long time.
very cool
I didn’t know that this was a thing, but I love that this is a thing.
This is really adorable, will have to try this in 2023!
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