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Fun Father’s Day Cross Stitch Patterns

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Father’s Day is right around the corner but you’ve still got time to stitch something fun for a dad in your life. Check out these fun and often funny Father’s Day cross stitch patterns!

I can’t resist a good Star Wars design, but I can’t decide which of these I like better. The “baby alien” design is from Cross Stitch Wow and the Darth Vader tattoo is from X Stitches Be Crazy, both on Etsy.

Show dad he’s out of this world with this planetary cross stitch you can add text to from DMC and LoveCrafts.

If the dad in your life is just OK, celebrate him with the World’s Okayest Dad cross stitch from Snarky Art Company on Etsy.

This toolbox design from Country Living would be cute for a dad who’s handy. (Link goes direct to PDF.)

This Family is Forever design from Plaid Online might be cute for dad in different colors (or pastels if he likes pastels!).

Or keep it simple with this I love you design from Little Stab Studios (this one is also a direct to PDF link).

 

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Cross Stitch Cards for All Occasions

I have never stitched a greeting card, but I kind of like the idea of it. It’s a card and a gift all in one, and hopefully one the recipient will hang onto for years to come. 

This collection of easy and colorful greeting card cross stitch patterns from Susan Bates (via Gathered) are a great place to start if you want to stitch your own greeting cards. 

These text-based designs cover a lot of card-sending events, such as:

  • get well soon
  • happy birthday
  • thank you
  • thinking of you
  • congratulations
  • anniversary
  • new home
  • good luck

The lettering is done in gradients and there are other details like hearts and stars, a house key and a gift, depending on the text. There are full cross stitches and back stitch on all of the cards, and they use 15 colors for the cross stitching and six for the back stitching (and just two colors are used for both, so it’s 19 colors total). 

The designs vary a bit in size but the biggest one is 52 by 67 stitches, which comes out to 3.75 by 4.75 inches or 9.5 by 12 cm when worked on 14 count fabric or 28 count evenweave. The text suggests beads are also used in the patterns but there’s no note of them in the key, so go wild and add some beads if you like. 

Designs are worked on a price of 6 by 8 inch/15 by 20 cm fabric and then mounted to a card with a colorful baking piece of card stock behind it. This is easy to assemble with whatever cardstock greeting cards you have on hand.

You can get the free charts as a PDF from Gathered. 

Have you ever stitched your own greeting cards? I’d love to hear about it, or let me know if these inspire you to try. 

[Photo: Susan Bates via Gathered]