House Cross Stitch Patterns

Sometimes I come across a pattern I want to share and it causes me to look for other, similar patterns so that I can have a theme instead of sharing a single pattern with you.

That was the case with this pattern of a row of colorful houses (which is a free pattern from JP Crochet). It is super cute and could be a post of its own, talking about how it reminds me of beach houses and it would be fun to change up the colors to match houses in your neighborhood or just your decor. As written it uses nine colors and is 111 stitches square, or 20 cm/7.8 inches square when stitched on 14 count fabric.

If you like the look of beach house cross stitch patterns, I have another set of summer beach houses for you to look at.

I like the idea of houses all jumbled together, but they don’t necessarily have to be beach houses. For example the village houses from TAM Stitch Designs on Etsy. These rows of houses surrounded by trees and flowers are definitely not near the ocean, but they’re still really pretty (and a great way to use a lot of colors!). The piece is full coverage, 200 by 200 stitches, and uses 15 colors. As shown on 14 count fabric it comes out to about 14.25 inches/36.3 cm square.

And while these are not shown as stitched in a single frame, I also love the four season houses from Cute Patterns by Maria. These traditional homes sit in the different seasons but they would be cute grouped together in individual frames, or just hang each one during its particular season if you’d rather. These vary a little in size and use a ton of colors (between 14 and 33, depending on the project) but I think it would be a lot of fun to stitch all four.

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Cross Stitch Patterns Inspired by the Beach

If you love patterns for frogs and sardines, animals, food, flowers and more, Happy Cross Stitchers has got you covered. With more than 1,600 patterns as of this writing, you’re almost guaranteed to find something you like.

I don’t know if I’ve missed something that cross stitch patterns featuring sardines are showing up everywhere (this is the second designer I’ve seen with them in the past month or so) but Happy Cross Stitchers has 60 sardine cross stitch patterns. They also have 200 patterns with flowers, and even more than that in their biggest category, which is animals.

Many of the animal cross stitch patterns have a modern nursery feel to them, like this set of four modern boho animal patterns featuring what I’m interpreting as owls, a moose (or it coulr be a deer), a donkey and a cow. Each individual pattern is 100 by 100 stitches and they use six or seven colors. The designs will come out to 7.1 inches or 18.14 cm when stitched on 14 count fabric.

There’s also a large number of Christmas cross stitch patterns, with lots of trees, little houses, Santas and word art. There are lots of bunnies, eggs and chicks in the Easter section.

The modern designs include lots of colorful, graphic florals. There are also well over 100 butterflies, many of which at least look like they could be inspired by real butterflies (though none of them are labeled as to what kind of butterfly they are).

You’ll also find plenty of cute and often funny cat and dog cross stitch patterns, though there are a lot more cats than dogs represented. And then there’s the food section, with patterns for fruits, different kinds of toast, a jar of pickles, doughnuts and more.

And that’s not even all there is in this store! I guess all this is a long way of saying there’s a lot of fun patterns at www.etsy.com/shop/HappyCrossStitchers on Etsy and you should go browse because you’ll probably find something you like. And if you do, I’d like to hear about it!

[Photo: Happy Cross Stitchers]

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