Chez Mounette posted this kitty-themed project with what I am sure is a lovely saying, but I don’t speak or read French and Google translate mangles this one – so if you speak French, please post a translation in the comments for us, won’t you? It would be greatly appreciated! Get the free chart.
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Christmas Ornament Cross Stitch Patterns
The other day I shared some cross stitch patterns with ornaments on them, so this time around I wanted to share cross stitch patterns that you can use as ornaments. It would be fun to do a whole tree in your craft room with cross stitch ornaments, or just add a few to your tree or give them as gifts.
These little quilt inspired cross stitch patterns from Flamingo Toes look like ornaments and fit in 3-inch hoops, which are perfect for hanging on the tree or using to decorate a gift. I love the pastel colors on these but you can use more traditional Christmas colors if you like.
This cute Christmas tree from Lagodargetoshop uses a single color and fits in a 4-inch hoop, but you could make it smaller if you wanted by trimming the last ornaments and gifts from the sides, or just stitch the tree without any other embellishments. Either way it’s a cute addition to your holiday tree.
Stitched Modern has a super cute collection of retro Christmas ornament cross stitch patterns from designer Gera. This is a printed pattern that will be shipped to you. Each pattern is about 40 by 56 stitches, or 2.9 by 4 inches/7.4 by 10 cm on 14 count fabric. To work the whole set you’ll need 20 colors of floss.
These snowflake ornaments from Our Little Handmade Home are each about 2.5 inches/6.4 cm when stitched on 14 count fabric, and they use a single color of floss. They are pretty in red but you could also do white on a blue or black background, or whatever suits your other Christmas tree decorations!
From the description it sounds like this set of vintage style cross stitch characters is presented as one large chart, but the photo from Sampler Antique Stitch shows each of them stitched up as their own little ornament, so it gets included here. You’ll find Santa and snowmen in different poses in this cute collection.
the translation is, come my beautiful cat,love of my heart.It is part of a poem by charles Baudelaurie this is the full version..
The cat
Come, my beautiful cat, love of my heart,
Hold the claws of your paw,
And let me dive into your beautiful eyes
Mingled metal and agate.
When my fingers leisurely caress
your head and your elastic back,
And when my hand tingles with the pleasure
Of feeling your electric body,
I see my wife in mind. His eyes,
like yours, amiable beast
Profound and cold, cuts and cleaves like a dart,
And feet till the head,
A subtle air, a dangerous perfume
Swim around his brown body.
The link is not clickable – ??? It shows up with a blue underline, but when I move the cursor to it, the cursor doesn’t change to a hand. I tried clicking anyway, but nothing happened. Thanks for your help!
I’m not fluent, by any means, but my high school French makes me think this says, “Come my beautiful cat, into my loving heart.”
Sorry about that Susan – the link should be working now.
Thanks Helen!
Thanks so much Marilyn!