Christmas Village Cross Stitch Patterns

I always feel a little weird sharing holiday patterns as early as I know I need to for people to be able to make them for the current year’s holiday season, but in this case we might already be too late to start and finish these this year. But I know people love Christmas villages, both three-dimensional and in cross stitch form, and these would definitely be well worth the time they’ll take even if they’re not ready until next year.

This all started when I came across une rue á Noel from Chez Mounette, which you might guess from the name shows a winter street scene. It includes five buildings and the chart is in color but doesn’t show the DMC numbers for the colors, so you can use what you have to make this pretty scene.

Zanna Cross Stitch’s pretty Christmas village shows six buildings and a church steeple all lit up and covered in snow, with a little creek running through the scene. This one is definitely for experienced stitches, as the size is 400 by 400 stitches and there is no white space. It uses 85 colors and you can find it on Etsy.

I love the fanciful (and colorful!) village shown in this Christmas town scene from Stitchrovia on Etsy. This one is 140 by 141 stitches, or about 10 by 10 inches on 14 count fabric. It only uses whole stitches so it’s a good choice for new stitchers ready to take on a big project.

A more simplified version of the Christmas village comes from Lucie Heaton, whose pretty Christmas village measures 112 by 112 stitches, or about 8 by 8 inches on 14 count fabric. It’s so cute on sky blue fabric with its pink Christmas tree! It uses 15 colors and you can find it on Etsy.

This classic Christmas town cross stitch pattern from Wombat Stitching on Etsy has sets of buildings lined up together and a little sampler style scene at the bottom. This one is 323 by 137 stitches, or 22.8 by 9.4 inches on 14 count fabric. It uses 16 colors and is all full cross stitches.

Or spread out buildings all over your fabric along with some pretty trees to make this Christmas village cross stitch pattern from Etsy seller ABC Cross Stitch. This is a good one for more advanced stitchers, and comes out to around 18 inches square on 14 count fabric.

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15 Ugly Christmas Holiday Sweaters To Cross Stitch

One of the most common problems that cross stitchers at all skill levels have is that the cross stitch fabric can start fraying while you stitch.

Beginner cross stitchers might wonder why this happens and if there is something they are doing wrong to cause it.

The reason cross stitch fabric frays is because it is a woven fabric, and the nature of any kind of woven fabric (whether that’s cross stitch fabric, a torn up towel or a piece of fabric you’re going to sew) is that it wants to fray.

It’s not necessarily a huge deal if you cross stitch fabric starts fraying mid-project if you have left a lot of extra fabric around your stitching. But if there’s not much fabric to spare in order to be able to finish the project the way you want, you’ll want to do something to stop the fraying.

When I was growing up I remember my mom using masking tape for this purpose, but it turns out there are lots of different things that you can do to stop your cross stitch fabric from fraying.

Craft with Cartwright came up with 15 different things that you can try, which seems like a lot, but that just means you have lots of different things you can try.

If you don’t want to buy something, you can stitch along the edges. If you already have supplies like tape or glue, or access to pinking shears or a serger, there are lots of options you can try.

Some of these are more permanent than others, so it will depend a little bit on how you want to finish your cross stitch project as to which is the best choice for you. It’s a great idea to read through the whole list just so you can have them in the back of yoru mind the next time you start a project and think about how you would like to protect it.

You can find the whole list at Craft with Cartwright.

How do you like to stop fraying on your cross stitch projects? I’d love to hear your thoughts.

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