Easter Cross Stitch Patterns with a Religious Theme

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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35+ Sunflower Cross Stitch Patterns

I like small projects in all my crafts, and I’ve been spending some time this year coming up with little cross stitch projects that I can do to build my skills and also not be working on a gigantic project (which I also am, just not regularly).

I feel like most of us prefer closer to instant gratification projects most of the time. While there’s also room for those big, dramatic, super detailed projects, my lifestyle, and maybe yours too, is much better suited to smaller projects.

With that in mind I thought it would be fun to try making a cross stitch napkin ring. My version has three little flowers on it, but you could take this idea 100 different ways for different holidays and seasons. Tiny Christmas trees or snowflakes, stars, hearts, flowers of different colors.

Since it’s a small project it doesn’t take long to make one (which is nice, because you’ll probably want more than one to embellish your table).

I made my flowers in different colors, with a different one of the same three colors I chose serving as the center for a different flower. The centers are worked as French knots (which are so much fun to make), and I did mirror images of the flower chart just to make it more fun for me.

I also finished the edges with blanket stitch using another color of embroidery floss, which adds cuteness and hopefully will keep the fabric from fraying too much. So far so good.

Check out the pattern and grab the little flower chart I used over at Our Daily Craft.

Do you love little cross stitch projects? Or ones that are maybe less traditional ways to use cross stitch? I’d love to hear your ideas for different kinds of projects I could try.

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