A Butterfly Bookmark for Your Summer Reading

I love summer for a lot of reasons, but this particular summer has been great because my daughter is old enough to read by herself, which means I’m getting a lot more reading time for books I actually want to read (not that I don’t love reading to her, and I still do a lot, but grown-up books are nice, too).

We are always in need of more bookmarks, and crafty bookmarks are 1,000 times better than your grocery store receipt, right?

Here’s a great free butterfly bookmark cross-stitch pattern from Happy Stitches. She also has a version of the pattern in a square if you’d rather have a square of butterflies for some other reason.

Either way, it uses nine colors and is easy to customize with whatever colors you want your butterflies to be.

Happy stitching and reading!

[Photo: Happy Stitch.]

Looking for more Bookmark charts and cross-stitch patterns? Check these out on Etsy

Looking for more Butterfly themed cross stitch patterns and charts? Check out these butterflies we found on Etsy.

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The other day I shared some cross stitch patterns with ornaments on them, so this time around I wanted to share cross stitch patterns that you can use as ornaments. It would be fun to do a whole tree in your craft room with cross stitch ornaments, or just add a few to your tree or give them as gifts.

These little quilt inspired cross stitch patterns from Flamingo Toes look like ornaments and fit in 3-inch hoops, which are perfect for hanging on the tree or using to decorate a gift. I love the pastel colors on these but you can use more traditional Christmas colors if you like.

This cute Christmas tree from Lagodargetoshop uses a single color and fits in a 4-inch hoop, but you could make it smaller if you wanted by trimming the last ornaments and gifts from the sides, or just stitch the tree without any other embellishments. Either way it’s a cute addition to your holiday tree.

Stitched Modern has a super cute collection of retro Christmas ornament cross stitch patterns from designer Gera. This is a printed pattern that will be shipped to you. Each pattern is about 40 by 56 stitches, or 2.9 by 4 inches/7.4 by 10 cm on 14 count fabric. To work the whole set you’ll need 20 colors of floss.

These snowflake ornaments from Our Little Handmade Home are each about 2.5 inches/6.4 cm when stitched on 14 count fabric, and they use a single color of floss. They are pretty in red but you could also do white on a blue or black background, or whatever suits your other Christmas tree decorations!

From the description it sounds like this set of vintage style cross stitch characters is presented as one large chart, but the photo from Sampler Antique Stitch shows each of them stitched up as their own little ornament, so it gets included here. You’ll find Santa and snowmen in different poses in this cute collection.

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