Funny Valentine’s Day Cross Stitch Patterns

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.

I don’t usually cross stitch text or add words to my cross stitch projects. Sometimes I will sign things using basic block lettering worked in backstitch (luckily my initials are pretty easy to stitch), but if you give your cross stitch as a gift or otherwise want to personalize it, adding text is a great way to go.

But if a project didn’t already come with text, and you don’t want to draw your own, you’ll need a good cross stitch font that you can use for your project.

I like collecting fonts that are easy to read and to stitch and that would be good for lots of different uses.

For example I really like this bold alphabet font from Cross Stitch with Art, which has both capital and lowercase letters as well as numbers if you need them for dates or other information on your design. The capital letters are an inch/2.5 cm/14 stitches tall, which makes it easy to figure out how much space you need to leave for them. It’s a nice, basic, readable serif font you can use for lots of project.

If you want a script font that’s still really readable, check out Magic Calligraphy from Soft Pattern Designs. This hand drawn font has upper case letters around 28 stitches tall, with lower case letters mostly being around 20 stitches (though the ones that go up or down a lot like f, p and y are bigger). The numbers also vary a bit in size but range from 25 to 29 stitches.

Sometimes you just want a classic font that looks like sports lettering, and in that case you’re going to need Varsity, an all caps font from Stitch Mod. This one has letters that are 21 stitches tall, and it includes capital letters and numbers. But there are definitely times this one would come in handy!

Another sometimes useful and really cute font is this alphabet block letters alphabet from Stitch Junction. These letters are all upper case and look like classic building blocks, and there are also numbers available. This one would be perfect for a birth announcement project or some other cross stitch for the baby’s room.

And if that’s not enough for you, check out this post with 85 free cross stitch fonts for you to try!

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