Get Ready to Garden with these Gardening Cross Stitch Patterns

It’s finally time where we can start gardening for real where I live, so let’s celebrate with some garden themed cross stitch patterns.

Craft with Cartwright has a cute garden sampler that includes a fork, spade, welly boot, birds and a bird hose, a watering can, flowers, veggies and butterflies. Stitch the whole sampler as it is or take out the elements you like to use in a smaller project. As is, this design is 96 by 152 stitches, which comes out to 6.86 by 10.86 inches, or 17.4 by 27.5 cm. It uses nine colors and is a free pattern on her website.

Stitchrovia has a cute farm scene called In the Garden, which includes a shed, wheelbarrow, watering can, a boot, a glove, a tiny greenhouse, plants and more. This one is 152 by 190 stitches, which comes out to 10.9 by 13.6 inches, or 27.6 by 34.5 cm, on 14 count fabric. The design uses at least 11 colors.

Happy Crosses has another cute design full of garden tools and plants that would be fun to stitch up for your sun room or wherever you have plants in the house. It’s 171 by 171 stitches, which is 12.2 inches square or 31.1 cm square on 14 count fabric (the pattern notes include sizing information for other counts).

Luzatoyle has a cute and easy garden cross stitch pattern that includes a hat, glove, spade, watering can and flower in a pot. This one looks like it uses six colors and is 63 by 52 stitches. That’s about 4.4 by 3.7 inches, or 11 by 9 cm, on 14 count fabric. This would be another nice one to just stitch one of the images onto a smaller project like a card for a gardening friend.

I also love the Kitchen Garden pattern from Little Dove Samplers. This sweet design shows a greenhosue, rows of plants, rabbits, garden tools and more. At 120 by 180 stitches, it measures 8.5 by 12.75 inches or 21.5 by 32.4 cm on 14 count fabric (though the sample was stitched on 16 count, which comes out a little smaller).

Inkspire Studio Shops offers cross stitch patterns as well as tons of different stitch minders, scissor charms and thread organization tools.

We’ll get to all that, but since we’re mostly here for the patterns, let’s start there.

All of the patterns are in one category (called Inkspire Originals if you’re following along). There are a lot of book-themed projects and more of the designs are bookmarks than anything else. You’ll find trope bookmarks, a Reading Rainbow themed design, flowers and a super cute watercolor set bookmark, to name a few.

And while the book themed projects are by far the most numerous, I wanted to share this super cute pile of vintage Pyrex style bowls. I love the colors on this one and it should be easy to stitch because so much of it is blocks (or bowls) of a single color. This one is only available as a printed pattern, but most of them are digital.

It calls for six colors and comes out 5.6 by 6.9 inches, or 14.2 by 17.5 cm when stitched on 14 count fabric.

In addition to the bookmarks and book themed projects you’ll find a few kitchen projects and some Halloween and Christmas designs as well.

But what this shop is really about is needle minders, and there are tons of them, with all kinds of themes ranging from introverted and snarky to animal themes, food and beverages, retro designs and religious and inspiring needle minders.

If you don’t know about needle minders, these are acrylic with magnets. You stick a magnet to the back of your work, add the needle minder to the front of the work, and then it holds your sewing needle when you’re not stitching. No need for piercing your fabric or losing your needle between stitching sessions.

She also makes charms you can attach to your scissors (or use as a stitch marker if you’re a knitter or crocheter), inventory and project trackers and bags large and small to hold works in progress and other supplies. She’s also got a great collection of vintage cross stitch patterns and kits, so check out all the fun goodies at Inkspired Studio Shops.

[Photo: Inkspire Studio Shops]

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