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.

I don’t usually cross stitch text or add words to my cross stitch projects. Sometimes I will sign things using basic block lettering worked in backstitch (luckily my initials are pretty easy to stitch), but if you give your cross stitch as a gift or otherwise want to personalize it, adding text is a great way to go.

But if a project didn’t already come with text, and you don’t want to draw your own, you’ll need a good cross stitch font that you can use for your project.

I like collecting fonts that are easy to read and to stitch and that would be good for lots of different uses.

For example I really like this bold alphabet font from Cross Stitch with Art, which has both capital and lowercase letters as well as numbers if you need them for dates or other information on your design. The capital letters are an inch/2.5 cm/14 stitches tall, which makes it easy to figure out how much space you need to leave for them. It’s a nice, basic, readable serif font you can use for lots of project.

If you want a script font that’s still really readable, check out Magic Calligraphy from Soft Pattern Designs. This hand drawn font has upper case letters around 28 stitches tall, with lower case letters mostly being around 20 stitches (though the ones that go up or down a lot like f, p and y are bigger). The numbers also vary a bit in size but range from 25 to 29 stitches.

Sometimes you just want a classic font that looks like sports lettering, and in that case you’re going to need Varsity, an all caps font from Stitch Mod. This one has letters that are 21 stitches tall, and it includes capital letters and numbers. But there are definitely times this one would come in handy!

Another sometimes useful and really cute font is this alphabet block letters alphabet from Stitch Junction. These letters are all upper case and look like classic building blocks, and there are also numbers available. This one would be perfect for a birth announcement project or some other cross stitch for the baby’s room.

And if that’s not enough for you, check out this post with 85 free cross stitch fonts for you to try!

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