Craftside Giveaway

I know that I have shared a few of these individual patterns before, but if you’re a fan of cats and cross stitch I wanted to make sure you knew about the whole bunch of mini cat cross stitch patterns that are available from Happiness is Cross Stitching.

In all there are 24 different cats, with one for each month of the year as well as some seasonal and holiday ones. A few holidays repeat like Valentine’s Day, St. Patrick’s Day and Christmas, but it’s always good to have options, right?

Since St. Patrick’s Day is coming up soon I wanted to share this one, which is a little black cat wearing a hat and green collar with a shamrock on its tail. It looks like the pattern would use two colors (three if you want to make the eyes and nose white) and the actual stitching area is less than 30 by 30, co it wouldn’t take all that long to stitch. There’s a little bit of back stitching for the whiskers and shamrock stem, but this would be a great project for a new stitcher to try.

As I mentioned above, there’s also a cat for every month of the year if you want to make a sampler or stitch a topper for a little printed calendar. Or you could take the cats from those monthly patterns and use them in other projects.

These are super cute as gift tags or on cards, or there are some shown as little pillows if you like that look. The great thing about minis is that you can use them a bunch of different ways. A

And of course these cats are black, but you could easily change the coloring to make it look more like a cat in your life if you don’t happen to be lucky enough to have a black cat.

You can find all the charts — and some ideas of what to do with them — at Happiness is Cross Stitching.

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