Small St. Patrick’s Day Cross Stitch Patterns

There are cross stitch patterns of all sizes and for all skill levels of most kinds of motifs you’d want to make, and while there are plenty of detailed projects to make for St. Patrick’s Day, sometimes you don’t have that kind of time. So let’s take a look at some little St. Patrick’s Day cross stitch patterns.

I love these little minis shown in tiny oval frames. The design is from Bella Rose Craft and they really look like they need to be little pendants to me. The bigger shamrock is 15 by 14 stitches, which is a little more than an inch square (2.5 cm) on 14 count fabric. The one with stems is 12 by 19 stitches which is a little less than an inch wide and 1.36 inches/3.5 cm tall. They are shown in 1.5 by 2 inch hoops.

These sweet gift takes would be fun to add to a St. Patrick’s Day treat or to use as greeting cards or bookmarks. Designed by Cross Stitch by Coconut, there are five designs to choose from. Each design is 25 by 40 stitches and to stitch all of them you will need 12 colors. I think the leprechaun cat is my favorite.

Speaking of cards, this design from Easy X Stitch Patterns includes four shamrocks with a Scottish plaid design. Not sure the Irish would approve of that, but it’s still cute. Each clover uses three colors and is 26 by 29 stitches.

Lardoargento Shop has a cute collection of six little St. Patrick’s Day patterns (the rainbow one is shown here). They also have a sheep, a pot of gold, two pints of beer, a leprechaun hat and a horseshoe. I love the little border around the designs, but you could leave it off to make the project smaller if you wanted. These are shown in 4-inch hoops.

While they are shown in one project here, the individual motifs from this design by Tidy Patterns would be fun to use individually on projects. Each one is about 60 by 60 stitches, so not as small as the other ones, but cute enough to be included here. The full project uses 20 colors.

This little sampler style St. Patrick’s Day cross stitch pattern runs a little less than 4 by 4 inches (that’s 10 cm) with a stitch count of 48 by 46. This green saltbox house and its hat wearing sheep use 13 colors, and the pattern is from The French Giraffe.

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Shamrock Cross Stitch Patterns

Cute spooky and fantasy cross stitch patterns is how the designer behind Haunted Frames describes their shop, and I have to agree with them. These designs are cute and Gothic and a little bit spooky all at once. There’s a heavy focus on book themes, which you know I am a fan of, so let’s get into it.

Stopping first in the books section, there are lots of designs that are literally on book shapes, but if you know my love of both books and cats, you’ll know I had to share the Midnight Book Cart cross stitch pattern. As the name suggests it’s a design with a witchy book cart, complete with a spiderweb, bats flying out of a book and what it describes as a ghost cat (though I would have to make a black cat instead of a white one since I have a black cat, and that fits with the vibe).

The design is 65 by 97 stitches and is worked in 17 colors. It’s shown on 16 count fabric, which makes it 4.1 by 6.1 inches, or 10.3 by 15.4 cm.

I also love the winter themed little free library design, which would be perfect to stitch up for the little librarian in your life (or to drop at a neighborhood book space).

Projects with a book theme make up the majority of the patterns that are categorized in this shop, but you’ll want to scroll through all their patterns to see what else is available, since it doesn’t look like everything is in a category. You’ll find castles and dragons, more cats of course, some more obviously Halloween and Christmas themed projects and those that would suit for spooky season or any other time of year.

If cute and dark is your aesthetic, you’ll want to check out all the patterns at www.etsy.com/shop/HauntedFrames, which you can find on Etsy.

[Photo: Haunted Frames]

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