Cross Stitch Christmas Gift Tag Patterns

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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I have never stitched a greeting card, but I kind of like the idea of it. It’s a card and a gift all in one, and hopefully one the recipient will hang onto for years to come.

This collection of easy and colorful greeting card cross stitch patterns from Susan Bates (via Gathered) are a great place to start if you want to stitch your own greeting cards.

These text-based designs cover a lot of card-sending events, such as:

get well soon
happy birthday
thank you
thinking of you
congratulations
anniversary
new home
good luck

The lettering is done in gradients and there are other details like hearts and stars, a house key and a gift, depending on the text. There are full cross stitches and back stitch on all of the cards, and they use 15 colors for the cross stitching and six for the back stitching (and just two colors are used for both, so it’s 19 colors total).

The designs vary a bit in size but the biggest one is 52 by 67 stitches, which comes out to 3.75 by 4.75 inches or 9.5 by 12 cm when worked on 14 count fabric or 28 count evenweave. The text suggests beads are also used in the patterns but there’s no note of them in the key, so go wild and add some beads if you like.

Designs are worked on a price of 6 by 8 inch/15 by 20 cm fabric and then mounted to a card with a colorful baking piece of card stock behind it. This is easy to assemble with whatever cardstock greeting cards you have on hand.

You can get the free charts as a PDF from Gathered.

Have you ever stitched your own greeting cards? I’d love to hear about it, or let me know if these inspire you to try.

[Photo: Susan Bates via Gathered]

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