Butterfly Cross Stitch Patterns

I love watching out for when the butterflies start heading back north in the spring. Every year I want to plant more flowers in the hope of drawing more butterflies to my yard. If it’s not yet time for butterflies where you live, you can always stitch some with these butterfly cross stitch patterns.

The World in Stitches has a pretty retro butterfly pattern complete with little flower motifs (which of course you could leave off if you just want to have the butterfly buy itself). The full design by Colleen Carrington measures 73 by 76 stitches, which is 5.21 by 5.43 inches or 31.24 by 13.79 cm on 14 count fabric. It uses 11 colors.

Purple Leaf Designs has a pretty purple (of course!) butterfly pattern that you can get for free when you sign up for emails. If you’re not as big a fan of purple, sub in shades of whatever color you like.

Stitched Modern has a cool collection of butterflies (and maybe some moths, too?) designed by Dear Sukie, which would be fun to stitch all together as shown, or you can work up individual butterflies in their own hoops. If you stitch it all together it measures 147 by 121 stitches, or 10.5 by 8.6 inches (26.6 by 21.8 cm) on 14 count fabric.

Stitch up a full specimen board of butterflies with this big design full of tiny butterflies from Tiny Cross Stitch Co on Etsy. In this 235 stitch square project you’ll find 100 little butterflies. On 16 count fabric it comes out to 13 inches/33cm square. Or take individual butterflies and stitch them on napkins, use them as a border for another project, add to cards or bookmarks…so many ways to use them!

Speaking of using butterflies as a border, the butterflies on this design from Cross with Me only take up about half of the fabric needed to fill a hoop, so you could easily add in some text or a flower or just leave the white space. I think this would look great on a sky blue fabric as well. The design uses 12 colors and measures 115 by 151 stitches.

These folk art butterflies don’t exactly look natural, but they sure are pretty and would be great as decor in a room with a boho feel. The design is from Stitchrovia and measures 178 by 180 stitches. On 14 count fabric it comes out to around 13 by 13 inches, or 33 cm.

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I don’t know why it still surprises me that there are cross stitch patterns available for almost anything you can think of. I wasn’t looking for pool themed cross stitch patterns, but in scrolling around Etsy looking more generally for summer cross stitch patterns, I found a lot of pool patterns so I figured I should share them.

I love the colors in these designs, almost as cool as sliding into the pool on a hot day.

The first one I found was Pool Party by Milky Stitch. It features someone lounging in the pool, someone lounging next to the pool, and some fun accessories you might need for a day at the pool. It uses 20 colors and was designed for 11 count fabric, which means it comes out to 12.2 by 8.2 inches, or 31 by 21 cm.

Pastel Pool from Stitch Me Good Designs looks like it would fit right in with Pool Party on a gallery wall. This one uses seven colors and 14 count fabric and fits in a 7-inch hoop.

Speaking of gallery walls, if you want a room full of summer sun and pool themed cross stitch, check out this trifecta of pool designs from Craft Bundle Lab. There’s a women floating in a pool with a large hat, a float in a pool and several floats and pool toys in another pool with a fun checkerboard bottom. Each design uses 12 colors and they are about 14.6 inches/37 cm square worked on 14-count fabric.

This designs from Cross Stitchers United shows three people floating in a pool in different ways. This one has cross stitched water, or you can stitch it on blue fabric and save yourself some time. As shown it uses nine colors and is 94 by 94 stitches, which is 6.7 inches or 17 cm square on 14-count fabric.

The Swimmers in a Pool cross stitch pattern from Thread Nova Studios is delightful. It’s stitched with everyone wearing red suits, but you could change up some of them — or even just one of them — to change the look of the project. This one uses 14 colors and is 200 by 200 stitches. That’s about 14.3 inches/36.3 cm on 14 count fabric, though the pattern includes sizing for other stitch counts, too.

And finally the pool pattern from The Lady at Home just makes you wish you could jump right into it. The pool with floats looks super inviting, and it is stitched on 14-count fabric with a finished size of 5 by 7 inches/12.7 by 17.8 cm.

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