I love mini cross stitch patterns any time of the year, but they’re especially nice as we head toward the holidays and you might want to make some last-minute gifts. Mini Christmas cross stitch patterns are super cute as ornaments, Read More ...
Christmas Word Art Cross Stitch Patterns
Words add a great graphic element to any cross stitch design, but it can also be fun when the words take center stage in a project, as they do in these word art Christmas cross stitch patterns.
I love these Read More ...
Christmas Sampler Cross Stitch Patterns
I love a good sampler pattern, and this time of year it’s fun to stitch up sampler style patterns related to Christmas. Some of these Christmas sampler cross stitch patterns can work like an advent calendar, stitching a little bit Read More ...
Holiday Bauble Cross Stitch Patterns
I love a good handmade Christmas ornament, and some of these patterns literally are meant to be ornaments, while others are patterns of ornaments, which you could probably make into ornaments or stitch up to hang near the tree. They’d Read More ...
Book Review: Customize Your Cross Stitch
If you’ve been looking around the Internet for cross stitch patterns for very long, you’ve probably come across Stitch People, which specializes in cross-stitched portraits. While they provide a lot of different patterns to stitch a lot of different Read More ...
Hanukkah Cross Stitch Patterns
Every year I share Hanukkah cross stitch patterns, but it seems especially important this year to take a moment to reflect on the season of light and hope that Hanukkah is.
Stitch People has a cute Hanukkah freebie you can Read More ...
Snowflake Cross Stitch Patterns
I know it might not be feeling all that wintry where you are (we typically go back and forth a lot before it decides to solidly be winter where I live sometime in December) but if you want to tempt Read More ...
Christmas Village Cross Stitch Patterns
I always feel a little weird sharing holiday patterns as early as I know I need to for people to be able to make them for the current year’s holiday season, but in this case we might already be too Read More ...
Christmas Tree Cross Stitch Patterns
The past couple of years we haven’t put up a Christmas tree because we have cats that can’t be trusted. I’m thinking of getting a tabletop tree this year, but I also think it would be fun to craft a Read More ...
Cross Stitch Samplers with a Historic Twist
It’s funny that even though most of the cross stitch designers I’ve been profiling lately came to me from a list I’m picking from at random, quite a few of them have been designers who focus on samplers (see, for Read More ...