Mandala Cross Stitch Patterns

With Holi coming up soon (and the difficulty of finding Holi themed projects because machines don’t know that’s not a misspelled word, apparently) I thought I would share some mandala cross stitch patterns that would be fun to stitch up and display for Holi or any time of year.

This one from Cross Stitch Obsession reminds me of peacock feathers. It’s called Mandala Autumn, and it fits in a 14-inch hoop when worked on 14 count fabric. The stitch area is 186 stitches on each side, and the pattern uses 17 colors.

Cross Stitch Kits Alla sells this gorgeous floral mandala that looks like it could have been made out of colored sand. The pattern listing doesn’t say how many colors it uses, but I’m going to guess it’s a lot. Worked on 14 count fabric the design is 54.43 cm square, or about 21.5 inches, with a stitch area of 300 by 300 stitches.

The Color Burst Mandala from xCountingtheStarsx is another fantastic and colorful option. This one uses a whopping 30 colors in a stitch area of 224 by 224 stitches. On 16 count fabric it will be 14 inches or 35.56 cm square. Definitely worth it for this stunning piece!

Get a bunch of pretty mandala designs with this set of seven charts from Love Cross Stitches. Each pattern is 200 by 200 stitches, making them 36.29 cm or 14.2 9 inches square on 14 count fabric. How many colors you will need depends on the design but they all use quite a few colors.

A less traditional mandala look (though more folk art traditional) is this floral one from Tidy Patterns. You could use brighter colors to make it more of a Holi-style mandala, or keep it muted. As shown it uses 15 colors and is 135 by 135 stitches.

Another one that’s not super traditional because of color rather than style is this black and white one form Hoop Modern Stitch. It uses just one color (though I think it would be really cool to use a variegated floss for this one) and is 140 by 140 stitches. On 14 count fabric that comes out to 10 inches or 25.4 cm square.

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Siren Stitchworks has cross stitch patterns that feel like old samplers (and some of them are in fact historical reproductions) even when they are modern designs. They have patriotic patterns, biscornus, pop culture patterns and more so let’s take a look.

One of the projects that caught my eye was the Mexican menagerie, a set of five Mexican folk art inspired creatures. There’s a bird, horses, dragons, alligators and cats on these designs, which you can make into tiny pillow or ornaments.

The pattern notes don’t say how many colors are used but it doesn’t look like any of them have more than five colors. It does note the smallest pattern is 59 by 59 stitches, and the largest is 82 by 68 stitches. They also only use full cross stitches.

The category with the largest number of entries (which is still only 12 as of this writing; this is a small shop) is called ornaments and smalls. It includes this menagerie and another Mexican animal collection, as well as traditional looking patterns with a twist, such as a little pattern with Yule goats, a needlebook cover that looks like a tombstone and alphabet samplers that include Greek, Latin and Hebrew.

There are also a bunch of samplers, divided into monochrome, traditional and reproduction samplers. There are some fun ones in the monochrome department, including a Titanic sampler and an aloha design with a pineapple motif. Traditional samplers include some patriotic designs (and a gorgeous folk art resist fist), as well as a really fat cat.

And the reproduction samplers include fun fonts, florals and birds like you’d expect from old sampler designs.

In addition you’ll find a few pop culture designs (mostly Game of Thrones inspired samplers for different houses), biscornus include a couple Chinese zodiac designs, and a few needle minders for sale.

Check out all the fun designs at Siren Stitchworks on Etsy.

[Photo: Siren Stitchworks]

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