Racquet sports needlepoint patterns

Racquet sports: tennis racquets crossed with a ball, squash racquets crossed heads up, pickleball paddles with a ball, and badminton racquets.

The racquets and paddles come two to a design. Most of the paddles are crossed, and the badminton racquets cross behind a shuttlecock with its tip pointing down; the retro badminton design is the shuttlecock alone. Each comes in several styles. All are four inches square on 18 mesh. In the blue and white and preppy tennis designs and the blue and white, classic and preppy squash designs the strings are a grid inside the frame, so count the frame first and the strings after. The badminton racquets have thin slanted shafts, so count those first too. Most are marked intermediate.