Quick Little Valentine’s Day Cross Stitch Patterns

After talking about mini cross-stitch patterns the other day, I decided to look around for some small Valentine’s Day cross stitch patterns that would be quick and easy to stitch.

Whether you just started stitching or just want a fun little project that will be done in a flash, these Valentine’s Day projects are perfect.

Floss & Fleece has a cute little collection of hearts and arrows and shows how to use them to make hair clips and necklace pendants. These free patterns are shown on a chart you can grab from the website.

Cross Me Not has a little free love letter cross stitch pattern that would be cute to add to a collection or on a Valentine card. If you stitch it on white fabric it will take no time at all.

Since I brought them up again, Teeny Weeny XStitch has Valentine’s Day minis, too. This set includes 20 little designs, each of which individually is smaller than 3 inches. The whole sampler is 219 by 221 stitches, or 15.6 by 15.8 inches/39.7 by 40.1 cm on 14 count fabric, and uses 51 colors.

These little gift tags from FUDA Stitch would also make cute cards. Each design is 28 by 42 stitches and comes out to 2 by 3 inches on 14 count fabric, perfect for adding to a little tag or card. The pattern includes five designs.

This free camper pattern from Kari Sweeten on U Create Crafts is super cute and you could make it in different colors with different symbols for different seasons if you want.

I feel like I have maybe shared these before, but the ombre hearts from Little Lovelies are worth sharing again and again because it’s such a simple and effective project. This would be a fun project to play with thread blending on, too. (This would also be fun for a project like my Valentine’s day bookmark.)

And if you want hearts with different styles, Aliton Embroidery has a set of three little heart cross stitch patterns. Each one fits in a 3-inch hoop and uses three colors.

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It’s back to school time where I live, which I always feel like is a great time to learn a new skill or take a deeper dive into something that you might not have learned a lot about before.

Usually when we are learning new hobbies we only know what we know. We learn the terms that we encounter, the skills that come up in the projects that we want to make. It’s not that we don’t care about other basics or different approaches, we just learn what we need to know to make what we want to make.

And that’s totally fine, but sometimes it’s a good idea to go back and review the basics or learn the things you might have missed the first time.

In that spirit I share this post from Caterpillar Cross Stitch all about basic cross stitch terms that every stitcher ought to know.

Did you know that the little bundle of thread you use for cross stitch is called a skein, for example? Or the difference between grid size and design area in a pattern? Or that working complete stitches one at a time is known as the English method? (I didn’t know that one! Apparently doing half of the stitch across the row and then coming back and finishing it is the Danish method. Who knew?)

There’s also a little bit about getting started with confidence that might be helpful at any skill level.

So what I’m saying is, even if you feel like you know a lot about cross stitch already, head over to Caterpillar Cross Stitch and check out their list of terms and make sure you know them all. If nothing else you’ll feel a little smarter, either because you already knew them all or you learned something new!

And if you do learn something new, I’d love to hear about it.

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