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Funny Valentine’s Day Cross Stitch Patterns

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If your love isn’t super romantic and cheesy, maybe you’d rather stitch up a little something to make you both laugh for Valentine’s Day. These funny designs are still sweet but with a punny or funny twist.

If you met your beloved on a dating site, stitch up this design from Faber Cross Stitch on Etsy about being glad you swiped right. The plaid heart adds a little extra cuteness, but you can make it a solid heart or change up the colors if you want. As shown it uses four colors and is 58 by 51 stitches, which makes it perfect for a 5-inch hoop.

I did mention puns, and My Darling Plum has a bunch of punny Valentine’s cross stitch patterns if that’s you’re style. I couldn’t resist sharing a couple. I’ve taken a Viking to you is 4.5 by 4.8 inches on 14 count fabric, and the designer recommends using blue, white or cream fabric. All you knead is love wouldn’t have to be a Valentine but it would also be cute for that purpose. This one is 4 by 4 inches on 14 count.

All Seasons Stitcher wants you to win the argument over who loves who more once and for all. This one fits in a 4-inch hoop and only uses a few colors, so it’s great for a beginner.

If your love can outlast the dinosaurs (or maybe you’re as old as dinosaurs, LOL) this dino love Valentine cross stitch might be just the thing. It’s from Aliton Embroidery and just uses two colors in a design that measures 62 by 54 stitches, or 4.4 by 3.9 inches on 14 count fabric.

And if you’d do a lot of things, but not anything for your love, maybe you can express that with this almost sweet sentiment, also from Faber Cross Stitch. This one measures 102 by 106 stitches (or 7.2 by 7.5 inches on 14 count fabric) and uses four colors.

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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]