Pumpkin Cross Stitch Patterns

I feel the urge to rush fall along this year and kind of want to head right into spooky season (thus the posts about haunted houses and ghosts!) but I know we should also take a moment to give fall its due. And I do love fall, which is why I shared some fall leaf cross stitch patterns, too.

I thought one way to celebrate fall without getting too Halloween would be to look for some pumpkin cross stitch patterns that aren’t jack o’lanterns. These can be used to decorate all the way through Thanksgiving, and some of the little ones you could even stitch on cloth napkins for your holiday table, like the mini pumpkin pattern from Craft with Cartwright.

This one is just 39 by 36 stitches, or less than 3 inches around, and it uses three colors.

The individual pumpkins in this pumpkin sampler could be stitched individually on smaller projects if you wanted. It’s from Cross with Me on Etsy and features plain pumpkins in different colors and plaid pumpkins. As shown it measures 7.5 by 7.36 inches and is 105 by 103 stitches. It uses five colors.

One cool thing about cross stitch is that you can use designs made for other crafts to make cross stitch projects. For example, beading charts also use squares and you can stitch the same pattern just fine. This pumpkin stack from Bracelet Book includes the word Boo but you could just stitch those areas in the same color as the pumpkin if you want to keep it plain.

Demented Stitchers on Etsy has a pretty pumpkin cross stitch pattern that looks like it was stenciled. This is a great one for beginners to try as it’s only 71 by 76 stitches, or about 4.4 by 4.7 inches on 14 count fabric, and it uses three colors.

For a bit of a fancier look, try this scroll pumpkin pattern from Annie’s. It’s rated easy and it looks like it uses about five colors.

I don’t usually cross stitch text or add words to my cross stitch projects. Sometimes I will sign things using basic block lettering worked in backstitch (luckily my initials are pretty easy to stitch), but if you give your cross stitch as a gift or otherwise want to personalize it, adding text is a great way to go.

But if a project didn’t already come with text, and you don’t want to draw your own, you’ll need a good cross stitch font that you can use for your project.

I like collecting fonts that are easy to read and to stitch and that would be good for lots of different uses.

For example I really like this bold alphabet font from Cross Stitch with Art, which has both capital and lowercase letters as well as numbers if you need them for dates or other information on your design. The capital letters are an inch/2.5 cm/14 stitches tall, which makes it easy to figure out how much space you need to leave for them. It’s a nice, basic, readable serif font you can use for lots of project.

If you want a script font that’s still really readable, check out Magic Calligraphy from Soft Pattern Designs. This hand drawn font has upper case letters around 28 stitches tall, with lower case letters mostly being around 20 stitches (though the ones that go up or down a lot like f, p and y are bigger). The numbers also vary a bit in size but range from 25 to 29 stitches.

Sometimes you just want a classic font that looks like sports lettering, and in that case you’re going to need Varsity, an all caps font from Stitch Mod. This one has letters that are 21 stitches tall, and it includes capital letters and numbers. But there are definitely times this one would come in handy!

Another sometimes useful and really cute font is this alphabet block letters alphabet from Stitch Junction. These letters are all upper case and look like classic building blocks, and there are also numbers available. This one would be perfect for a birth announcement project or some other cross stitch for the baby’s room.

And if that’s not enough for you, check out this post with 85 free cross stitch fonts for you to try!

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