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.

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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