Easter Cross Stitch Patterns

Easter is right around the corner and if you’re looking to stitch up some new decor for the holiday, check out these patterns, all available on Etsy.

This Happy Easter bunny cross-stitch design is simple and quick to stitch. It’s 70 by 84 stitches and uses 5 colors. Buy from JP Cross Stitch Pattern.

Demented Stitchers has a Peep-inspired pattern with little pastel bunnies and a happy Easter message. It’s 107 by 44 stitches and uses 8 colors.

This cross with wildflowers is really pretty and great for people who are looking for a religious Easter design. The pattern is about 7 by 9.5 inches and can be purchased from Pursuit Happy Stitches.

These sweet cartoony Easter animals are from Durene J Cross Stitch. Stitch the set or each one individually. They’re around 45 stitches square each.

This primitive cross-stitch Easter design is super cute as a little banner on a wreath as shown, or it would also make a cute pillow. Get it from Rovaris.

Noti Cross Stitch designed this blue egg floral Easter cross stitch design, which is a great classic design. It uses 9 colors and is 80 by 100 stitches.

Chicks, eggs and flowers decorate this Easter mini pattern from Cherry Hill Stitchery, which is 87 by 51 stitches. It would be really cute for a greeting card or a wee bit of decor.

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Religious Easter Cross Stitch Patterns

A while back I made a little rainbow cross stitch pattern and I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do with it, so I turned it into a patch. My idea was that it could be used on a jacket or backpack, or you could add a pin to the back and wear it temporarily on a shirt or elsewhere.

But what if you want to make your design more permanent? Is it possible to turn a piece of cross stitch into an iron-on design?

It turns out yes, it is, and Sirious Stitches has done it so I didn’t have to try to figure it out on my own.

The way they did it was by using HeatnBond, an iron-on adhesive that attaches fabrics without sewing. There was still sewing involved to finish the edges of the cross stitch fabric and make it look like a purchased patch. The post shows how to do this by hand or with your sewing machine. (I just did blanket stitch edging on mine, which doesn’t look like a “real” patch but is also a lot faster.)

Once you have the patch prepared it’s a pretty easy matter of using the fusible adhesive to the back of the patch so you can then iron it onto whatever jacket, pair of jeans, bag or whatever else you might want to add it to.

I guess I’m a little paranoid about the washability of cross stitch projects, though you could hand wash anything with an iron-on cross stitch patch as you might need to with a purchased iron-on patch, anyway. But this does look really cool and is a great option if you know you want to permanently add a cross stitch patch to a garment of bag.

Get the full tutorial over at Sirious Stitches. Would you add an iron-on cross stitch patch to something? I’d love to hear what you would use this technique for!

[Photo: Sirious Stitches]

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