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Black Cat Cross Stitch Patterns for Halloween

September 4, 2023 by Sarah White

Black cats are a well-known symbol of spooky season, but they’re also great companions throughout the year. (Written as a person who has a black cat and a tuxedo cat!)

Whether you’re looking for black cat cross stitch patterns to add to your Halloween decor just because they’re spooky, or because you own a black cat, this collection should provide some fun options.

The design that made me want to write a post about black cat cross stitch patterns was this one, the Autumn Cat 3D design from Cotton Pixels on Etsy. I am probably going to have to make this one because it is just so cute and I think it would be great to display on a shelf throughout the year or with my collection of knit and crocheted pumpkins in the fall.

Speaking of Halloween-themed black cat cross stitch patterns, The Starlight Stitchery has a lot of them on offer, but a couple that jumped out to me were the Boo Whoo pattern from Luminous Fiber Arts and Broom Black Cat from Stitch-N-Needs. (The first is a printed pattern and I think the second is a PDF but I’m not sure.)

This gorgeous stained glass black cat design from Luthien ART Shop on Etsy definitely has a Halloween vibe but to be honest I think I’d display it all year. It uses 36 colors and is based on a 200 by 200 stitch grid, which comes out to 14.3 inches square on 14 count fabric. This might be one you can start now and have finished in time for next Halloween!

DMC has a fun free occult black cat cross stitch pattern, where the cat is decorated with creepy images like a spider and web, ghost, bat and more. It uses 10 colors and you can download the pattern for free with login.

And while this one isn’t strictly Halloween, the cat in the bottle makes me think it’s been cursed by a witch (but being in a bottle full of books doesn’t sound too bad! You can get this one from Etsy seller Catstitch21.

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Make Your Cross Stitch into an Iron On Patch

A while back I made a little rainbow cross stitch pattern and I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do with it, so I turned it into a patch. My idea was that it could be used on a jacket or backpack, or you could add a pin to the back and wear it temporarily on a shirt or elsewhere. 

But what if you want to make your design more permanent? Is it possible to turn a piece of cross stitch into an iron-on design?

It turns out yes, it is, and Sirious Stitches has done it so I didn’t have to try to figure it out on my own. 

The way they did it was by using HeatnBond, an iron-on adhesive that attaches fabrics without sewing. There was still sewing involved to finish the edges of the cross stitch fabric and make it look like a purchased patch. The post shows how to do this by hand or with your sewing machine. (I just did blanket stitch edging on mine, which doesn’t look like a “real” patch but is also a lot faster.)

Once you have the patch prepared it’s a pretty easy matter of using the fusible adhesive to the back of the patch so you can then iron it onto whatever jacket, pair of jeans, bag or whatever else you might want to add it to. 

I guess I’m a little paranoid about the washability of cross stitch projects, though you could hand wash anything with an iron-on cross stitch patch as you might need to with a purchased iron-on patch, anyway. But this does look really cool and is a great option if you know you want to permanently add a cross stitch patch to a garment of bag. 

Get the full tutorial over at Sirious Stitches. Would you add an iron-on cross stitch patch to something? I’d love to hear what you would use this technique for!

[Photo: Sirious Stitches]

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