Cross Stitch Charts for Canada Day

We’ve shared a few project ideas for stitching for the Fourth of July, so it seems appropriate to dive into cross stitch charts for Canada Day as well.

I didn’t find a lot of free patterns out there, so if you know of more feel free to share them!

There’s a basic maple leaf pattern available at DLTK Kids, and if you do an image search for knit maple leaf charts you will find a lot of different options (I like this one, a Toronto Maple Leafs design by Twisted Bark Designs, free on Ravelry). I also found an image for a Canada crest design, credited to Susan B.

I love the Canada flag umbrella design from Le pointe de croix de martine (it’s in French, but charts are universal). And there’s a Mountie design and lots of other cute stuff at Les Blog des Dames.

For paid patterns, check out Let’s Visit Canada by Ursula Michael, the Moose cross stitch pattern from Stitchonomy, Canada Flag Heart cross stitch from BlueTopazStitchery, Proud 2 B Canadian from 5PrickedFinger5 (because is there anything more Canadian than a moose holding a Canadian flag?) and the funny Canadian Bacon design by NerdyLittleStitcher.

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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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