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Cross Stitch Christmas Gift Tag Patterns

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Another use that could be made of Christmas mini cross stitch patterns is making them into gift tags.

It’s not too difficult to turn a little cross stitch project into a gift tag; just mount it to a paper tag or piece of card stock shaped like a tag. You can use decorative tape or glue ribbon to the edges to keep the fabric from fraying.

If you want to design your own cross stitch tags, you can also buy cardstock tags with holes punched in them for cross stitching directly onto. Koomas Kreations on Etsy sells these, or you can get wooden bookmarks that could be used as gift tags on Amazon.

Looking for patterns that are made to be cross stitch Christmas gift tags? Etsy seller Cross Stitch by Coconut has a bunch of different gift tag cross stitch patterns, not all of which are Christmas related, but a lot of them are. There are several sets of Christmas trees, snowmen and other cute designs. These little Santas are super cute.

The Stitch Patterns‘ collection of tags looks really easy to stitch up. Each one is mostly a solid color with a little detail to turn them into a polar bear, reindeer, Santa, penguin, snowman, fox, owl? maybe and gingerbread man.

The tags designed by Ludicrous Threads are actually tag shaped, and the pattern shows them all stitched together as a sampler, but you could also stitch them and cut a piece of card stock to the same size to make a gift tag.

And the Stitchrovia tags are super cute with little sayings such as “for you, but only if you’ve been good” or “VIP very important present.” Each design is 28 by 42 stitches, and these would be so cute to add to a Secret Santa gift or to stitch right onto a bag instead of using as a tag.

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Cross Stitch Patterns for Fall

Through the years I’ve shared plenty of fall and especially Halloween themed cross stitch patterns, but today I wanted to look at fall projects that don’t have anything to do with spooky season. Here’s proof that pumpkins are an all fall thing, along with leaves, acorns and sunflowers. 

The Pumpkin Season cross stitch pattern from the appropriately names Autumn Andrea has lots of pumpkins as well as fall flowers and leaves. The project is 280 by 235 stitches, which comes out to 20 by 16.79 inches (that’s 50.8 by 42.6 cm). If I can count properly it uses 51 colors. 

Teeny Weeny X Stitch has a set of 20 fall landscape cross stitch patterns, and you can stitch up one, some or the whole bunch. There are lots of trees, a couple of streams and a could of houses out in the woods, among other views. The designs vary in size a little bit but they’re all around 40 by 44 stitches (smaller than 3.3 inches/8.3 cm) when worked on 14 count fabric. If you were to stitch all of them you would need 25 colors. 

This collection of fall leaves and acorns from Box and Fox looks really familiar to me but I can’t find that I’ve shared it before so here it is. I love the graphic quality of the leaves on this one and how it feels like you could display it all the way through Thanksgiving. It is 100 by 100 stitches, or about 7.1 inches/18.14 cm square on 14 count fabric, and it uses 10 colors. 

A more rustic look comes from Blueberry Ridge Design with this Autumn Gathers pattern. It’s shown on 36 count linen and has a stitch count of 145 by 125. That comes out to 8.1 by 6.9 inches, or 20.5 by 17.5 cm. 

Probably my favorite of this whole bunch is the autumn bookshelf from Patterns by Rybka Stitch. This sweet shelf has fall-colored books as well as pumpkins, leaves and flowers. This one uses 27 colors as well as blends, and the design measures 88 by 81 stitches, which on 14 count fabric is 6.3 by 5.8 inches, or 16 by 15 cm.