Islamic Cross Stitch Patterns for Ramadan

Ramadan, the Muslim holy month, begins June 5, so I wanted to look around for some Islamic cross stitch patterns to share. Many of these sites are not in English, but the designs are beautiful and worth sharing.

Islamic Cross Stitch is a blog that is in English and has many beautiful free patterns including floral designs and calligraphy. Her Facebook page is beautiful, too, with lots of great images for inspiration.

Ekaterina Gogoleva is another designer with many gorgeous script designs. Her site is not in English but this one is labeled Ramadan Mubarak. Here’s another of hers for Ramadan; I also really love this tulip design.

And while I can’t read this site at all, it does have a nice mosque design and some other Islamic cross stitch patterns.

There are no charts there but Didi’s Cross Stitch site has some lovely inspirational designs.

Do you know of any sites for Islamic cross stitch? I’d love to hear about them! We found these patterns on Etsy which you may want to check out too.

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Ramadan Cross Stitch Patterns

It’s back to school time where I live, which I always feel like is a great time to learn a new skill or take a deeper dive into something that you might not have learned a lot about before.

Usually when we are learning new hobbies we only know what we know. We learn the terms that we encounter, the skills that come up in the projects that we want to make. It’s not that we don’t care about other basics or different approaches, we just learn what we need to know to make what we want to make.

And that’s totally fine, but sometimes it’s a good idea to go back and review the basics or learn the things you might have missed the first time.

In that spirit I share this post from Caterpillar Cross Stitch all about basic cross stitch terms that every stitcher ought to know.

Did you know that the little bundle of thread you use for cross stitch is called a skein, for example? Or the difference between grid size and design area in a pattern? Or that working complete stitches one at a time is known as the English method? (I didn’t know that one! Apparently doing half of the stitch across the row and then coming back and finishing it is the Danish method. Who knew?)

There’s also a little bit about getting started with confidence that might be helpful at any skill level.

So what I’m saying is, even if you feel like you know a lot about cross stitch already, head over to Caterpillar Cross Stitch and check out their list of terms and make sure you know them all. If nothing else you’ll feel a little smarter, either because you already knew them all or you learned something new!

And if you do learn something new, I’d love to hear about it.

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