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Snowflake Cross Stitch Patterns

November 17, 2023 by Sarah White

I know it might not be feeling all that wintry where you are (we typically go back and forth a lot before it decides to solidly be winter where I live sometime in December) but if you want to tempt fate it might be time to start cross stitching some snowflakes.

Snowflakes are generally pretty easy cross stitch patterns for beginners because they usually are symmetrical and often only use one color. If you’re stitching with white thread you can play with the color of your fabric for a different look.

Small snowflakes can be made into ornaments for the tree or used as reusable gift tags on gifts.

Cathy Bussi’s snowflake Christmas tree is really cute (and could have fit into my roundup of Christmas tree cross stitch patterns the other day) and uses 10 different colors to make the snowflakes on a light blue background.  It’s 87 by 102 stitches, or about 6.2 by 7.3 inches when worked on 14 count fabric.

Make it with Heart has a collection of three simple and free snowflake cross stitch patterns, which they show on black fabric for a lot of contrast.  The small one fits a 3-inch hoop, so it would be perfect as an ornament.

This super simple pattern from American Crafty Lass on Etsy would be a great project for a new stitcher. It uses five colors but each of the snowflake shapes is really simple, and you can stitch them as shown or individually on different projects.

I love this simple but effective flurry of snowflakes from Lu’s Cross Stitch Shop on Etsy. Worked in a single color with cross stitch and backstitching, these individual flakes could be used on a gift tag, greeting card or bookmark as well. As shown, the full pattern fits in a 6-inch hoop.

Wild Bluebell Patterns on Etsy has a collection of little snowflakes it shows with a red background and in individual hoops. You can stitch up the whole set of nine and frame them together, or do several all on one piece of fabric if you’d rather.

Needle ‘n Thread has a cute, free folk-inspired snowflake pattern that’s perfect for the corner of a napkin or the border of another project. It’s meant to be stitched on plain weave fabric, and the pattern includes tips for how to go about doing that.

Here are more snowflake cross stitch patterns I’ve shared through the years if you need more inspiration!

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Designer Spotlight: Happy Cross Stitchers

If you love patterns for frogs and sardines, animals, food, flowers and more, Happy Cross Stitchers has got you covered. With more than 1,600 patterns as of this writing, you’re almost guaranteed to find something you like.

I don’t know if I’ve missed something that cross stitch patterns featuring sardines are showing up everywhere (this is the second designer I’ve seen with them in the past month or so) but Happy Cross Stitchers has 60 sardine cross stitch patterns. They also have 200 patterns with flowers, and even more than that in their biggest category, which is animals.

Many of the animal cross stitch patterns have a modern nursery feel to them, like this set of four modern boho animal patterns featuring what I’m interpreting as owls, a moose (or it coulr be a deer), a donkey and a cow. Each individual pattern is 100 by 100 stitches and they use six or seven colors. The designs will come out to 7.1 inches or 18.14 cm when stitched on 14 count fabric.

There’s also a large number of Christmas cross stitch patterns, with lots of trees, little houses, Santas and word art. There are lots of bunnies, eggs and chicks in the Easter section.

The modern designs include lots of colorful, graphic florals. There are also well over 100 butterflies, many of which at least look like they could be inspired by real butterflies (though none of them are labeled as to what kind of butterfly they are).

You’ll also find plenty of cute and often funny cat and dog cross stitch patterns, though there are a lot more cats than dogs represented. And then there’s the food section, with patterns for fruits, different kinds of toast, a jar of pickles, doughnuts and more.

And that’s not even all there is in this store! I guess all this is a long way of saying there’s a lot of fun patterns at www.etsy.com/shop/HappyCrossStitchers on Etsy and you should go browse because you’ll probably find something you like. And if you do, I’d like to hear about it!

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