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Relive your favorite memories of summer with eye-catching quilt-inspired designs, sunny scenes and patriotic patterns, all bursting with fresh colors! Whether you’re at the beach or in your favorite chair, these 26 patterns will keep you stitching all summer long.

Celebrate the Fourth of July with Cape Cod Fireworks. A colorful harbor scene captures the spirit of the holiday with fireworks blasting over sailboats and families enjoying the view. This American design features a variety of stitches and beaded accents.
Embark on a new stitching adventure with House for a Wife, a Huswif. Tour a stately Elizabethan home with a blooming trellis, fluffy sheep and a vibrant peacock in the first of a new three-part series. Each pattern features unique designs, specialty stitches and textures to make an elegant huswif.
Take a peek at the upcoming Christmas Ornaments issue. Get a jump-start on your holiday stitching with nine new, unique ornaments—a sampling of the exciting 70+ ornament collection we have planned for you.
Plus, you won’t want to miss our “The Sampler Sleuth” feature! This month uncovers the striking statements immortalized in beautiful messages without ink, pen or quill that we can still read centuries later.

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Looking for 4th of July decorations? Check these supplies out.

We also have 100’s of 4th of July Patriotic crafts and 4th of July recipes too.

Looking for more Patriotic Cross Stitch patterns for Memorial day or the 4th of July? Check these charts out on Etsy.

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American Flag Cross Stitch Patterns

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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