I am Tereena Clarke, the owner of Artecy. I design all of the patterns and website. I  have been designing cross stitch patterns for 10 years and in that time my skills as a designer and my software have improved a lot.

I have recently removed around 600 very old patterns from the Artecy website and I will be redoing them in 2010 / 2011 and adding them back to the website. Here are a few patterns I have redone so far.

You can see there is a big difference from the patterns created 10 years ago to the patterns I create today.

Everyone has to start somewhere with their designing experience though, so if you do try to make your own patterns my advice is to not give up.

At Artecy, we figure we must be doing something right, we have thousands of happy members and customers since we went online in 2000.

We continually receive positive feedback from customers in emails and through our Facebook fan page.

We have over 18,000 visitors to the artecy.com website each month and we are in the top 250,000 websites ranked in the US at alexa.com

For the rare few complaints we have received over the years we deal with these quickly and efficiently, these have usually been related to colour issues with our very old patterns which we are now redoing.

If you have a problem with our service or patterns please do not hesitate to let us know, we cannot improve if we are unaware of the problem.

We try to answer all emails within 48 hours so if you do not receive a reply please contact us again. Occasionally, spam blockers stop legitimate emails getting through and one of our pet peeves is companies who do not reply to emails. 

What do our Artecy Cross Stitch patterns look like?
We provide counted cross stitch patterns with easy to read black and white symbols as these are more popular. We do not provide coloured symbols also to save on ink costs. Our patterns vary from 1 page for our small patterns up to around 10 or more pages for our larger designs. The patterns are designed to print on home printers, so our large patterns will have the design spread out over several pages. It is impossible to put these large designs on one page as the symbols would be unreadable. For our larger patterns we suggest to stitch one page at a time.

Each pattern comes with

• A colour image of the completed design,

• Instructions for putting your pattern together and completing it,

• The black and white symbol chart,

• A list to show you which DMC cotton colour to use with each symbol,

• and a usage summary page to show you how much cotton is needed for each colour.

If you would like to sample our patterns first to see how they print you are welcome to download our free cross stitch patterns.

So to summarize why you should choose to buy cross stitch patterns from Artecy?

• We have 10 years Cross Stitch designing experience.

• We pay attention to details and go through each pattern to improve colours and to make the pattern easier to stitch.

• We have clear, easy to read patterns which you can print easily at home to start stitching straight away.

• We constantly add new patterns every two weeks.

• We display the cross stitch image NOT the original photo on our website.

• We have a loyal following of happy customers, some have been with us from the very beginning, thank you so much for all your support.

• We truly care about providing good customer service.

• We offer two ways to receive your patterns to suit your circumstances you can go to the Artecy Shop and buy patterns individually to download online to print yourself,  or for the higher payment option we can print and post the pattern to you.

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