A Bunch of Mini Cat Cross Stitch Patterns

I know that I have shared a few of these individual patterns before, but if you’re a fan of cats and cross stitch I wanted to make sure you knew about the whole bunch of mini cat cross stitch patterns that are available from Happiness is Cross Stitching.

In all there are 24 different cats, with one for each month of the year as well as some seasonal and holiday ones. A few holidays repeat like Valentine’s Day, St. Patrick’s Day and Christmas, but it’s always good to have options, right?

Since St. Patrick’s Day is coming up soon I wanted to share this one, which is a little black cat wearing a hat and green collar with a shamrock on its tail. It looks like the pattern would use two colors (three if you want to make the eyes and nose white) and the actual stitching area is less than 30 by 30, co it wouldn’t take all that long to stitch. There’s a little bit of back stitching for the whiskers and shamrock stem, but this would be a great project for a new stitcher to try.

As I mentioned above, there’s also a cat for every month of the year if you want to make a sampler or stitch a topper for a little printed calendar. Or you could take the cats from those monthly patterns and use them in other projects.

These are super cute as gift tags or on cards, or there are some shown as little pillows if you like that look. The great thing about minis is that you can use them a bunch of different ways. A

And of course these cats are black, but you could easily change the coloring to make it look more like a cat in your life if you don’t happen to be lucky enough to have a black cat.

You can find all the charts — and some ideas of what to do with them — at Happiness is Cross Stitching.

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Unique St. Patrick's Day Cross Stitch Patterns

I recently came across a post from Lord Libidan talking about embroidery floss packs and whether it’s worth the money to buy a set of threads all at once instead of one skein at a time.

With the closure of Joann some people were buying these bundles as a way to build their stash/stockpile if they didn’t have another place to buy locally. I did the same thing when I first started cross stitching again after a break of many years, because I wanted to get a bunch of colors all at once without the overwhelming job of picking colors from the wall of thread when I didn’t have a particular project in mind.

And I think for this purpose buying a package with colors you like or some basic/popular colors is probably a good idea and relatively cost effective.

My Joann didn’t have any floss packs when it was closing (in fact it didn’t have cross stitch floss at all for a month or more, then suddenly go a bunch about a week before closing) but I might have bought one just to have the variety if they had been available.

If Amazon is going to be your source for cross stitch supplies going forward, I think buying packs of cross stitch floss when the colors make sense is definitely going to be a better deal. As I write this a pack of 36 popular colors was running $39.50, or about $1.09 a skein. I used to pay 66 cents per skein at Joann, but buying a single skein of black floss on Amazon would run you $4.29.

Herrschners sells DMC floss for $1.05 per skein or less, but shipping isn’t free and you’ll have to buy a lot (or a lot of other things, too) to meet their minimums for free shipping when they offer it.

Check out the post on Lord Libidan for his thoughts and let me know where you are buying cross stitch floss now if you used to buy it at Joann.

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