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Easter Cross Stitch Patterns with a Religious Theme

February 22, 2024 by Sarah White

Easter is all about the bunnies and eggs for a lot of people, but it is of course a religious holiday, so if you’re looking to stitch up a religious themed Easter cross stitch pattern, this collection is for you.

(Also this set of religious Easter cross stitch patterns from last year if you need more inspiration.)

This lovely Easter sunset cross stitch pattern from Fuzzy Fox Designs on Etsy is more accurately probably a Good Friday cross stitch pattern, but it’s suitable for the season anyway. It features people (and rabbits) observing the crosses and the verse John 3:16 stitched in backstitch. It’s a solid 76 by 76 stitches and meant for intermediate stitchers comfortable with dense stitching, half stitches and back stitch, though the Bible verse is optional. It uses 20 colors.

Craft Designs 4 You has a few free Christian cross stitch patterns, and if you scroll to the bottom you’ll find the He is Risen one. This simple design can be worked in two or three colors on a sky blue background (or any color you like).

Lily Mae Stitching on Etsy has another design with the three crosses and a sunrise or sunset. This one is 77 by 74 stitches and another full design, but it only uses 10 colors so it’s a little easier for people with less experience working dense cross stitch patterns like that.

This easy, elegant cross pattern includes the words “it is finished.” Designed by A New Creation Studio, it measures 63 by 63 stitches, so it comes out 4 inches or 10 centimeters square. It’s a pretty quick project that would be great for a card or to use as decoration in your home. It looks to me like it uses three colors, but you could always use more if you wanted. The designer suggests making the sun yellow and the vines in the background green instead of doing both in white, but you can use whatever colors you want to make it your own.

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A Cross Stitch I Spy at the Beach

That headline pretty much describes the Under the Sea cross stitch pattern from Una Buena Pieza, which is covered with shells, fish and other creatures of the sea. It’s not intended to be an I spy, I don’t think, and most of the same kinds of animals are grouped together, but I think it would be fun for someone who didn’t stitch it to look and see what different things they can find within.

The pattern includes turtles, jellyfish, a whale, shark, ray, all sorts of fish and shells and I’m sure other things that I’m not noticing right now. Dolphins! Coral! Seagulls!

It looks like it would be super fun to stitch and fun to have on the wall during the summer months, or even hang in a kid’s room if you know a young one who loves the beach or ocean animals.

The design is 110 by 220 stitches. It comes out to about 8 by 16 inches, or 20 by 40 cm, when stitched on 14 count fabric. It calls for 19 colors.

This design looks great on light blue fabric as shown, but in the pattern listing on Etsy you’ll also see what it looks like on a darker blue and a white fabric, and they all look pretty good so you can use whatever color you like to suit your decor or your idea of what color the “ocean” should be. There’s even a customer photo that looks like it was done on a sort of tie-dyed green fabricc, which is really fun.

However you stitch it, I think this project would go faster than you imagine because there are so many fun little things to stitch. It will be hard to get bored when you can just move on to a different animal or part of the design.

Check out this pattern from Una Buena Pieza on Etsy.

[Photo: Una Buena Pieza]

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