The Best Roundup Of Minecraft Cross Stitch Patterns

With a new Minecraft movie out in theaters, it seems like a great time to share some Minecraft cross stitch patterns. I’ve never known much about Minecraft but I know a lot of people love it, so let’s see what I found.

Of course because it has an 8-bit style it’s easy to translate to cross stitch patterns and remain pretty faithful to the original look of the game. Like with these little designs from Lab Pattern. The information on the photo and in the listing don’t match, but I think the listing is correct based on my attempt to count pixels in the photo, which would make the full set 55 by 48 stitches. That’s 3.93 by 3.43 inches/9.98 by 8.71 cm on 14 count fabric. It uses 22 colors.

This pixel poster from Mushroom Moon XStitch is a Minecraft and Pokemon mashup featuring the animals of Minecraft. It measures 134 by 198 stitches, or 9.57 by 14.14 inches/24.3 by 40 cm on 14 count fabric (the pattern includes counts for finer fabric, too, if you want to make it smaller). It uses 21 colors.

There’s a whole rainbow of colors in the Minecraft world, as shown in this design from Fizzikyu. This 200 by 200 stitch pattern uses 87 colors, so it’s not really a project for a beginner but it would be a great one to stitch for a Minecraft fan.

Speaking of the wide world of Minecraft, you can stitch it all, from the surface to the underground and the nether, with this design from Arcane Pigeon converted to cross stitch by Glitch Stitch AU. This design uses 39 colors and measures 100 by 300 stitches, or 21.5 by 7.25 inches/54.4 by 18.1 cm on 14 count fabric. What a stunner for a game room!

Little X Stitch Pattern has a set of six Minecraft character cross stitch patterns, which you can stitch individually or as a set on one piece of fabric. Each individual character is around 35 by 35 stitches (except for the wolf, not shown here), so they come out around 2.5 inches/6.3 cm on 14 count fabric.

One of the most famous creatures from Minecraft is the axolotl, of course, and you can stitch up a cross stitch Minecraft style axolotl with this design from Palatable Patterns. This is the rare blue axolotl, but you can make it another color if you like (today I learned axolotls in Minecraft can be pink, brown, gold, cyan or blue). The pattern is 75 by 75 stitches.

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35+ Sunflower Cross Stitch Patterns

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]

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