Mini Christmas Tree Cross Stitch Pattern

I don’t do a lot of cross stitch designing, and when I do it tends to be stuff that’s really easy. But I also think that this one is pretty cute, so I wanted to share it with you all in case you’re looking for a quick and easy cross stitch mini you can make into an ornament, card or gift bag decoration for the holidays.

This pattern came together in an afternoon and is easy enough for new stitchers to make. It uses three colors but if you want to make it even easier you can make the tree a single color. Decorate it after the stitching is done if you want — you could add some random French knots to be ornaments, or sew on some beads or sequins, or just leave it plain.

I added little zig zag garlands to mine (the pattern is actually adapted from a Fair Isle knitting pattern book, because I’ve got to be me) and you could certainly add your own design elements to the tree if you’d rather, or change up the color.

What I really love about this mini Christmas cross stitch pattern is that it fits in a 3-inch hoop, but I realized that a wide-mouthed Mason jar lid is basically a 3-inch hoop, so you can just use that as a frame. That way all the finishing you have to do is hot gluing the edges of your fabric to the back of the lid. I also added a bit of ribbon to be able to hang it on the tree, but you could also just nestle it in the branches if you want.

This would be a great teacher gift ornament, too, because it is so quick and easy to stitch, and you probably have all the colors of embroidery floss you need already.

You can grab the free pattern over at Our Daily Craft.

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To celebrate back to school season, I wanted to make a fun and useful cross stitch pattern, so I decided on this cross stitch pencil bookmark.

It’s a really easy pattern even though it calls for six colors. You definitely don’t have to use all the colors if you don’t want to, and you can use different colors to make a colored pencil instead of the traditional yellow one.

These sorts of projects always end up taking longer than I imagined they would in my head, because I just don’t stop to do the math of exactly how many stitches are in a piece that’s 23 stitches by 74 rows (1,702, though not every single one of them is covered, most of them are).

But because the coloring of the chart is so straightforward, I’d say it also doesn’t take as long as 1,700 stitches sounds, if that makes sense. Because you barely have to count anything and could make most of it without consulting the chart, you can get into a groove pretty easily and stitch whole sections in a single sitting. I had a lot of fun stitching this one and I think you will, too.

Once the stitching is done, take a piece of felt and sew it to the back to hide the mess you’ve made and make it a nice smooth bookmark that’s easy to use in whatever book you might be reading.

This is a fun one to make for yourself or a kid in your life who is going back to school. But it would also be a fun teacher appreciation gift or holiday gift, especially for an English teacher but really anyone would like this one I think.

You can grab the free chart and get all the instructions for assembling your own cross stitch pencil bookmark over at Our Daily Craft.

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