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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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Patriotic Cross Stitch Patterns

Summer is the time of patriotic holidays in the United States, so it’s a great time to stitch up some red, white and blue cross stitch projects for the Fourth of July or just for summer decor.

Curious Carrie Designs has this cute Americana pattern that would be great to have on display all summer long. It includes an American flag in a watering can full of flowers. The design measure 55 by 60 stitches, which comes out to 4 by 4.375 inches, or 10 by a little more than 11 cm, when worked on 14 count fabric. (The sample is shown on 32 count linen, which is more like 16.) It uses 16 colors.

This Fourth of July design from Lotus Lake Stitching is specific to the holiday, but it wouldn’t have to be if you didn’t stitch the words. The little buildings and fireworks are so cute, and I love that random red, white and blue bird. It uses nine colors and measures 247 by 83 stitches. That’s 17.3 by 5.9 inches, or about 44 by 15 cm on 14 count fabric.

The burlap colored fabric on this project from Needle Treasures Nook makes it look especially rustic, but it would have a different look with pure white or light blue fabric behind the stitches. This one uses nine colors and is 72 by 71 stitches, and was worked on tea-dyed 36 count linen fabric.

The Sub Rosa Design has this patriotic garden design full of geometric red, white and blue flowers. This is one of a series of their designs so if you like it you should check them all out. This one is 131 by 71 stitches and is about 7.8 by 4 inches/20 by 10 cm on 36 count linen.

Wombat Stitching offers this one that is fully Fourth of July (and a little Captain America for fun I guess). It uses nine colors and is 193 by 193 stitches. That comes out to about 13.8 inches or 35 cm square on 14 count fabric.