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.

[Photo: Happiness is Cross Stitching]

Mason jars are fun to craft with, use for storage or even use to hold gifts like baking mixes or sugar scrubs. But you can make your jars even cuter — no matter what you’re using them for — by adding a bit of cross stitch to the lid.

This idea comes from Gathered, and while they are showing examples of Mason jars used for storage in the craft room, you can use these throughout the house. I’m also thinking you could do this as a way to fancy up a traditional Mason jar sewing kit, since there’s already a little batting under the piece of cross stitch you could still use it as a pincushion.

The post walks you through how to make a cross stitched Mason jar lids and a link to a PDF pattern that includes six design options.

They’re not totally for beginners because they include cross stitch, backstitch, eyelets and Rhodes stitch, but if you aren’t familiar with those techniques you can either leave them off or there’s a stitch diagram in the PDF to help you.

Either way these designs are cute and relatively quick to stitch in whatever colors you like. It’s easy to turn them into jar toppers, or you could even just use the Mason jar ring as a frame rather than using it on top of a jar (I did this with a little Christmas tree cross stitch pattern I turned into an ornament).

They’re super cute in the pastel colors shown, or work in red and green for more of a holiday look if you’re using them for gift giving.

Check out the instructions and grab the free patterns for these jar toppers at Gathered. Once you start stitching I’m sure you’ll come up with all sorts of things you want to store or gift in jars so that you can make more of them!

[Photo: Gathered]

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