Cross-Stitch

Charts, patterns and everything needlepoint

Cross-Stitch Poppies for Remembrance Day

by

Remembrance Day is celebrated around the world on Nov. 11 to remember the end of hostilities in World War I (in America we have Veteran’s Day, which serves the wider purpose of honoring veterans of all conflicts).

The classic symbol of remembrance in many countries is the poppy, and cross-stitched poppy patterns are a wonderful way to commemorate this solemn day.

Kinkalven Krosses has a pretty poppy pattern with a cross and the words “The Fallen will not be Forgotten.”

Crochet Club (site is in Russian) has a simple poppy chart you can use even if you can’t read the instructions.

Another pretty poppy chart can be found at Hancock’s House of Happy.

And if you’re willing to buy cross stitch poppy charts, the Lest We Forget collection designs at the Canadian site Peacock and Fig are lovely and meaningful. I particularly like the Flanders Field Poppies design, shown here.

Next Pattern:

Comments

  1. Thanks so much for featuring one of my patterns from Peacock & Fig, that was a lovely surprise! As a veteran myself it was really important to design a collection of poppy patterns, it’s such a significant flower for those who have served and their families.

Have you read?

Designer Spotlight: Happy Cross Stitchers

If you love patterns for frogs and sardines, animals, food, flowers and more, Happy Cross Stitchers has got you covered. With more than 1,600 patterns as of this writing, you’re almost guaranteed to find something you like.

I don’t know if I’ve missed something that cross stitch patterns featuring sardines are showing up everywhere (this is the second designer I’ve seen with them in the past month or so) but Happy Cross Stitchers has 60 sardine cross stitch patterns. They also have 200 patterns with flowers, and even more than that in their biggest category, which is animals.

Many of the animal cross stitch patterns have a modern nursery feel to them, like this set of four modern boho animal patterns featuring what I’m interpreting as owls, a moose (or it coulr be a deer), a donkey and a cow. Each individual pattern is 100 by 100 stitches and they use six or seven colors. The designs will come out to 7.1 inches or 18.14 cm when stitched on 14 count fabric.

There’s also a large number of Christmas cross stitch patterns, with lots of trees, little houses, Santas and word art. There are lots of bunnies, eggs and chicks in the Easter section.

The modern designs include lots of colorful, graphic florals. There are also well over 100 butterflies, many of which at least look like they could be inspired by real butterflies (though none of them are labeled as to what kind of butterfly they are).

You’ll also find plenty of cute and often funny cat and dog cross stitch patterns, though there are a lot more cats than dogs represented. And then there’s the food section, with patterns for fruits, different kinds of toast, a jar of pickles, doughnuts and more.

And that’s not even all there is in this store! I guess all this is a long way of saying there’s a lot of fun patterns at www.etsy.com/shop/HappyCrossStitchers on Etsy and you should go browse because you’ll probably find something you like. And if you do, I’d like to hear about it!

[Photo: Happy Cross Stitchers]