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Give Thanks with this Simple Stitched Design

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It’s getting a little late in the month to plan a big cross-stitch project for Thanksgiving, but this little Give Thanks design from Alita Designs is sweet and simple and you still have time to stitch it.

The sample is worked in three colors and measures 45 by 24 stitches. Keep it all in brown and gold or change up the color of the leaves if you like.

This would be cute as a little framed piece on the table or in the serving area, and is a gentle reminder we could use all year to be thankful for all that we have.

[Photo: Alita Designs.]

Looking for more Thanksgiving-themed Cross-stitch patterns and charts? Check out these Thanksgiving-themed Cross stitch designs on Etsy.

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Make Your Cross Stitch into an Iron On Patch

A while back I made a little rainbow cross stitch pattern and I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do with it, so I turned it into a patch. My idea was that it could be used on a jacket or backpack, or you could add a pin to the back and wear it temporarily on a shirt or elsewhere. 

But what if you want to make your design more permanent? Is it possible to turn a piece of cross stitch into an iron-on design?

It turns out yes, it is, and Sirious Stitches has done it so I didn’t have to try to figure it out on my own. 

The way they did it was by using HeatnBond, an iron-on adhesive that attaches fabrics without sewing. There was still sewing involved to finish the edges of the cross stitch fabric and make it look like a purchased patch. The post shows how to do this by hand or with your sewing machine. (I just did blanket stitch edging on mine, which doesn’t look like a “real” patch but is also a lot faster.)

Once you have the patch prepared it’s a pretty easy matter of using the fusible adhesive to the back of the patch so you can then iron it onto whatever jacket, pair of jeans, bag or whatever else you might want to add it to. 

I guess I’m a little paranoid about the washability of cross stitch projects, though you could hand wash anything with an iron-on cross stitch patch as you might need to with a purchased iron-on patch, anyway. But this does look really cool and is a great option if you know you want to permanently add a cross stitch patch to a garment of bag. 

Get the full tutorial over at Sirious Stitches. Would you add an iron-on cross stitch patch to something? I’d love to hear what you would use this technique for!

[Photo: Sirious Stitches]