I wanted to share a collection of cross stitch patterns celebrating spring (which will be coming for us in the Northern Hemisphere soon, I think), but of course that’s less relevant for half the world, and maybe you want to stitch a full set of seasons, so let’s look at patterns for all four seasons.
The hello seasons set from Snail Fishes Stitches is one of my favorites because it’s so colorful. Each season has its own font design saying hello to the season, and the words are surrounded by icons of the season, little little chicks in spring, sunglasses in summer, pumpkins in autumn and snowflakes in winter.
Bigger seasonal icons in a grid are shown in the seasonal cross stitch patterns from Neni Design Crafts. I don’t love how the seasonal words are hyphenated in these, but if that doesn’t bother you the designs are cute. You could also pull out an icon like the gnomes or cardinal and use them alone in other projects if you want.
Go monotone with these pretty, sort of quilty four seasons cross stitch patterns from Goffin Design. Each one is 120 stitches square and uses a single color.
Get all your seasons in a single project with this design from Blue Bird Crafts Store. Each season shows a house with the seasonal weather. The design is 233 by 97 stitches and uses 13 colors.
A fun take on the seasons without words is this set from Little Dove Samplers. Called Heart of the Seasons, each heart-shaped design includes bands of icons and seasonal scenes with a house, trees and other images. The listing calls them 180 stitches square but the image isn’t square so you’re not stitching every stitch of that space.
And, OK, if you’re just in the market for spring (I can’t tell that either of these have a full four season set yet) there’s the pretty blue spring sampler from Chrysalis Stitchery, which is 146 stitches square; and this pretty little sampler from Natalka Studio, which measures 123 by 111 stitches and uses 16 colors.
