Beach Cross Stitch Patterns

This is the time of year when I start wishing it were time for a beach vacation (and my daughter has decided she doesn’t like the beach so the answer to that might be about five more years). Whether you live at the beach, have beach themed decor or just want to bring a bit of that sand and sea feeling into your summer decor, these beach cross stitch patterns are for you (and so are these beach inspired cross stitch patterns!).

Stitching Space has a pretty summer cross stitch pattern designed by Zefirnaya Vedma that includes a sandy beach, shells and starfish (as well as the word summer, but you could leave it off if you want). The design uses 27 colors and has whole, half and quarter stitches, so it’s for more intermediate or advanced stitches, but it sure is pretty! It is 80 by 106 stitches, which comes out to 14.5 by 19.2 cm or 5.7 by 7.5 inches when worked on 14 count fabric.

If you want to feel like you’re sitting in a deck chair on the beach, stitch up this project from The Little Art Veranda on Etsy. It features a pretty sunset in a cloudy sky alongside palm trees and chairs. It uses nine colors and is 140 by 140 stitches, which makes it 9.8 inches or 25 cm square on 14 count fabric.

Little Dove Samplers has a cute summer sampler with a pirate ship, lighthouse, seagulls, fish and more to stitch up. The colors used in the sample are really pretty together but you could also change the colors on the beach huts and fish if you wanted to. The design is 185 by 101 stitches, or 13.25 by 7.25 inches on 14 count fabric (that’s 33.6 by 18.4 cm).

Speaking of samplers, Hancock’s House of Happy has a free sampler style summer cross stitch pattern with little nautical symbols including ships, mermaids, crabs, seagulls and a lighthouse. You can use the individual motifs in projects or stitch up the full image as presented. As shown it uses 11 colors.

I feel like I have shared some of the beachy patterns from X Stitch Pattern X before but I can’t resist showing you this pretty round, which uses 12 colors and is 100 by 100 stitches. On 14 count fabric it’s 7.14 inches or 18.14 cm and uses only full cross stitches. Some day I’m going to make one of these!

As a knitter, I love a good sheep motif, so let’s take a look at some cute sheep cross stitch patterns.

If you want to stitch a little sheep, this mini square from Good Dog Needleworks is a nice choice. It uses just three colors and measures 32 by 32 stitches. That’s 2.2 inches or about 5.5 cm square if you stitch it on 14 count fabric.

I also love these two little sheep, which you can stitch together or in individual hoops and shown. The designs are form Threadbound Art and use six colors. They are slightly different in size, with one being 21 by 17 stitches and the other 21 by 20. They fit in four inch frames if you work them on 14 count fabric.

You can stitch a sweet sheep bookmark with this design from Kits by SA Stitch. This is not for the person who doesn’t like back stitch, because there’s a lot of that here, but it is really cute. It measures 30 by 91 stitches and uses 10 colors. That will make your bookmark about 2.4 by 6.5 inches, or 6 by 16.5 cm on 14 count fabric.

Stitch a pretty scene of sheep in a meadow with this design from Motok Nytok. It uses 21 colors and the design is 99 by 73 stitches. On 14 count fabric that makes it about 7.07 by 5.21 inches, or 17.96 by 13.24 cm.

This yarn full of cross stitch sheep has a bit of a knitting twist because the sheep all look like they have sweaters on. The design is from Soda Stitch Design and it measures 179 by 216 stitches. The full design uses 27 colors. On 14 count fabric it will work out to 12.78 by 15.42 inches, or 32.48 by 39.19 cm.

Another great one with a knitting theme is this one where the wool is coming off the sheep and straight onto the needles. This one is from Happy Cross Stitchers and uses 12 colors. The pattern is 137 by 137 stitches, which comes out to 9.7 inches or 24.86 cm square on 14 count fabric. This would be a fun one to stitch for the knitter in your life (even if that is you).

Or you can stitch the field of sheep of a knitter’s dreams with the Happy Sheep chart from Charts and Stuff. These per-colored sheep can be stitched as shown or worked in any colors you like. The eyes are French knots but you can just stitch them in white if you’d rather.

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