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Mexican Flag Cross Stitch Ideas

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Mexican flag cross stitch pattern inspirations

I wanted to share a little something for Cinco de Mayo, but not of the culturally stereotypical type stuff you normally see this time of year.

I thought a Mexican flag cross stitch pattern would be great, but strangely enough I couldn’t find one.

Admittedly all the detail around the eagle is complicated to chart out.

I did find a Mexican flag bead pattern from Kandi’s Patterns, which isn’t a perfect representation but is actually pretty good.

If you’re willing to buy a pattern I found two crochet patterns for Mexican flags: one from Cuddle Up Creations and the other from Cozy Concepts. Because crochet patterns are presented in a chart form, you can use them as cross stitch patterns as well.

If anyone out there has a source for Mexican flag cross stitch patterns, I’d love to know about them!

[Photo: Cuddle Up Creations.]

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  1. I have been looking myself and cannot find one either. Did you do what is in the picture? If you did you could you share with me please.

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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]