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).

As a knitter, I love a good sheep motif, so let’s take a look at some cute sheep cross stitch patterns.

If you want to stitch a little sheep, this mini square from Good Dog Needleworks is a nice choice. It uses just three colors and measures 32 by 32 stitches. That’s 2.2 inches or about 5.5 cm square if you stitch it on 14 count fabric.

I also love these two little sheep, which you can stitch together or in individual hoops and shown. The designs are form Threadbound Art and use six colors. They are slightly different in size, with one being 21 by 17 stitches and the other 21 by 20. They fit in four inch frames if you work them on 14 count fabric.

You can stitch a sweet sheep bookmark with this design from Kits by SA Stitch. This is not for the person who doesn’t like back stitch, because there’s a lot of that here, but it is really cute. It measures 30 by 91 stitches and uses 10 colors. That will make your bookmark about 2.4 by 6.5 inches, or 6 by 16.5 cm on 14 count fabric.

Stitch a pretty scene of sheep in a meadow with this design from Motok Nytok. It uses 21 colors and the design is 99 by 73 stitches. On 14 count fabric that makes it about 7.07 by 5.21 inches, or 17.96 by 13.24 cm.

This yarn full of cross stitch sheep has a bit of a knitting twist because the sheep all look like they have sweaters on. The design is from Soda Stitch Design and it measures 179 by 216 stitches. The full design uses 27 colors. On 14 count fabric it will work out to 12.78 by 15.42 inches, or 32.48 by 39.19 cm.

Another great one with a knitting theme is this one where the wool is coming off the sheep and straight onto the needles. This one is from Happy Cross Stitchers and uses 12 colors. The pattern is 137 by 137 stitches, which comes out to 9.7 inches or 24.86 cm square on 14 count fabric. This would be a fun one to stitch for the knitter in your life (even if that is you).

Or you can stitch the field of sheep of a knitter’s dreams with the Happy Sheep chart from Charts and Stuff. These per-colored sheep can be stitched as shown or worked in any colors you like. The eyes are French knots but you can just stitch them in white if you’d rather.

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