Frozen-Inspired Anti-Valentine’s Day Cross Stitch

I was searching for Valentine’s Day cross stitch patterns recently (and I’ll have some to share in the next few days, I promise) and this design made me laugh out loud.

If you’ve seen “Frozen,” you will recognize this sentiment “If only someone actually loved you.”

It’s a great project to stitch for a friend who might be alone for this most dreadful of holidays for single people, or to help lessen the sting of a breakup, albeit in a sarcastic kind of way.

Because someone does love you if they stitch you dark-humored cross stitch, right?

Looking for more Valentine’s Day Cross stitch patterns and charts? Check these out on Etsy.

Check out the chart at Free Cross Stitch Patterns to Print.

[Photo via Free Cross Stitch Patterns to Print.]

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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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