20 Snow Globe Cross-Stitch Patterns

This roundup of Cross-stitch Patterns is for Christmas Holiday themed Cross-stitch charts. I have included free patterns and paid patterns for you to try.

Erwin Perzy, an Austrian surgical instruments mechanic, created one of the first snow globes in 1900 while attempting to fashion a brighter light bulb. By the middle of the century, snow globes had become an American phenomenon and now they envoke so many childhood memories or holidays and travel destinations.

Were you one of those people who collected Snow globes? Do you still have them?

I hope these Snow Globe cross stitch patterns bring back some memories for you also.

Snow Globe Collection

Cross Stitch Snow globe ice skating

Gnome Cross Stitch Globe

Gingerbread house

Snowglobe

Snowman Globe

Snow Globe Christmas Tree chart

Snowglobe Pattern

Cross Stitch Snow Globe Ornament

Christmas bow Snow GLobe

Snow Globe cross stitch pattern

Christmas Decoration cross stitch pattern

20 Snow Globe animals

Snow Globe picture

Tardis Dr. Who Snow Globe Pattern

Cross Stitch Snow Globe

Gingerbread House

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If you’ve been around the cross stitch community for long, you might have come across the word ORT. It’s commonly used as a acronym for “old ratty thread,” but what it means is the little leftover bits of thread when you’ve finished a project.

If you have a little thread still on your needle when you’re done stitching, that’s and ORT.

Of course you can just throw that little bit of thread away, regardless of whether it’s a usable length. And I’m sure a lot of people do.

(I’m not one of those people, though. I keep my little threads, the extra yarn from weaving in ends on projects, tiny scraps of fabric, etc. and use them as stuffing in projects.)

Why would you want to keep ORTs? I’m sure other people use them as stuffing. You can also just keep them in a jar because they’re pretty. I’ve seen people make Christmas ornaments by putting their ORTs in a glass ball ornament with the year on it. I’m sure there are other options.

One thing you should never do, as this post all about ORTs from Sirious Stitches reminds us, is to put them out for birds. It’s a tangling and choking hazard and the bright colors could actually attract predators.

That post mentions both the stuffing and Christmas ornament idea, and it has lots of cute pictures of other ways to keep/display/use ORTs so they aren’t just cluttering up your workspace. Which I admit mine do from time to time as well, though I do have a dedicated jar for all the threads (sewing machine thread, too), yarn ends, fabric bits and such that I try to load things up in.

How about you? Do you keep your ORTs? Had you even heard of such a thing before today? If you do keep them I’d love to know what you do with them!

[Photo: Sirious Stitches.]