Hamster Jockey on Blue Shark

hamster-shark

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A small hamster rides a blue shark with a simple harness, rendered in a clean, graphic style. The long, narrow shape and moderate color changes create a steady stitching rhythm with some focus around the fins and face.
Suited to stitchers who enjoy playful motifs and a medium, manageable challenge.

Description

This design shows a confident hamster sitting upright on a sleek blue shark, connected by a straightforward harness. The composition is strongly horizontal, so you work in long passes across the body and tail with a predictable rhythm. With 28 colors and an effective palette just over twenty, you will see regular color changes but not constant single stitches.

Confetti is present in under ten percent of the area, mostly around the head, fins, and harness, which asks for some attention without feeling fussy. Edges along the sharkโ€™s outline are well defined, so you will do a fair amount of back-and-forth at color boundaries, but isolated stitches are essentially absent. The partial coverage keeps the piece visually light while still giving the shark and hamster solid form.

This suits stitchers who like a focused but not intense project and are comfortable following a chart with moderate shading. It may not appeal to those who prefer very simple, blocky areas of color or who dislike switching shades along curved outlines. Hamster Jockey on Blue Shark is designed to stitch well, not just to look good: the patternโ€™s structure supports a focused, steady rhythm and clear progress milestones.

Difficulty-wise it sits in the range of Medium (Balanced), which mainly reflects how much thread management and precision youโ€™ll want to bring to the table. Itโ€™s compact enough to feel finishable quickly while still giving a polished result. The palette stays calm and controlled, which makes the stitching rhythm straightforward and relaxing.

Confetti stays low, so youโ€™ll enjoy larger, cleaner stitch runs and quick visible progress. High edge contrast means crisp outlines and frequent color transitions, which gives the finished piece a sharp, high-definition look. The overall feel leans calm, focus, craft, which helps the design stay visually coherent while you work through it.

Many stitchers also read Hamster Jockey on Blue Shark through themes like care, handmade, which can make the finished piece feel personal rather than purely decorative. A strong focal point plus consistent micro-structure keeps the stitching experience rewarding over time. For customization, the motif also lends itself well to simple variations: you can shift the palette for a seasonal version, reduce or boost contrast to change the โ€˜graphicโ€™ feel, crop to a smaller focal area for a quick finish, mirror it for a pair, or frame it with a clean border, monogram, or a minimal geometric band to match a room.

Additional information

Size

250×107 stitches

Stitched

12038

Coverage

45.0%

Colors

28 (effective ~20.8)

Difficulty

Medium (Balanced) (6/10)

Confetti_0

9.8%

Confetti_1

0.4%

Confetti_2

0.2%

Confetti_3

0.2%

Edge density

0.467

Isolated

0.0%

Legend

Size shows the stitched design area in stitches (pixels) โ€” width ร— height โ€” without any extra border, exactly as framed in the preview image.

Finished size (for 250ร—107 stitches):

AIDAInches (W ร— H)Centimeters (W ร— H)
11 ct22.7 ร— 9.7 in57.7 ร— 24.7 cm
14 ct17.9 ร— 7.6 in45.4 ร— 19.4 cm
16 ct15.6 ร— 6.7 in39.7 ร— 17.0 cm
18 ct13.9 ร— 5.9 in35.3 ร— 15.1 cm
20 ct12.5 ร— 5.4 in31.8 ร— 13.6 cm

Stitched is the total number of stitches used (the overall workload).

Coverage is the percentage of the design area that contains stitched pixels (how โ€œfilledโ€ it is).

Colors is the number of floss colors used (with an โ€œeffectiveโ€ estimate that reflects how strongly colors actually appear).

Difficulty is a 1โ€“10 score: 1 = very easy, 10 = extremely challenging.

Confetti_0 counts stitches that have no same-color neighbor directly around them; Confetti_1, Confetti_2, and Confetti_3 apply the same idea with a larger surrounding distance (+1, +2, +3 stitches).

Edge density indicates how โ€œedgyโ€ the design is (more edges = more frequent color changes).

Isolated is the share of stitches that appear as isolated single pixels (often the most interruption-prone stitches).

For a detailed explanation of each metric, see: additional-product-informations.

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Included Files

No.FilenamePages / Size
1hamster-shark_MOCKUP.png6000 ร— 2568 px
2hamster-shark_PATTERNKEEPER.pdf1
3hamster-shark_PRINTER_DIN-A4.pdf19
4hamster-shark_PRINTER_LETTER.pdf20
5hamster-shark_SCREEN.pdf1
  • PDF cross stitch pattern files for personal use.
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