Stitch These Hearts and Arrows as a Sweet Last-Minute Valentine

Of course hearts are fun to cross stitch and use in other kinds of art all through the year, but I couldn’t resist slipping in one more quick little, super cute heart project before Valentine’s Day.

The Cross Stitch Hearts & Arrows project from KBB Crafts & Stitches has a couple of little designs made to fit in rectangular pendants she found on etsy.

If you don’t happen to have any jewelry mounts to put your projects in, they’d also be cute on little cards or even as a bookmark, maybe stitched with the recipient’s name as well.

Have you ever made cross-stitched jewelry before? I’m still thinking about the cross-stitched cuff featured in this post about “cool” cross-stitch I shared last year.

[Photo via KBB Crafts & Stitches.]

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The other day I shared some cross stitch patterns with ornaments on them, so this time around I wanted to share cross stitch patterns that you can use as ornaments. It would be fun to do a whole tree in your craft room with cross stitch ornaments, or just add a few to your tree or give them as gifts.

These little quilt inspired cross stitch patterns from Flamingo Toes look like ornaments and fit in 3-inch hoops, which are perfect for hanging on the tree or using to decorate a gift. I love the pastel colors on these but you can use more traditional Christmas colors if you like.

This cute Christmas tree from Lagodargetoshop uses a single color and fits in a 4-inch hoop, but you could make it smaller if you wanted by trimming the last ornaments and gifts from the sides, or just stitch the tree without any other embellishments. Either way it’s a cute addition to your holiday tree.

Stitched Modern has a super cute collection of retro Christmas ornament cross stitch patterns from designer Gera. This is a printed pattern that will be shipped to you. Each pattern is about 40 by 56 stitches, or 2.9 by 4 inches/7.4 by 10 cm on 14 count fabric. To work the whole set you’ll need 20 colors of floss.

These snowflake ornaments from Our Little Handmade Home are each about 2.5 inches/6.4 cm when stitched on 14 count fabric, and they use a single color of floss. They are pretty in red but you could also do white on a blue or black background, or whatever suits your other Christmas tree decorations!

From the description it sounds like this set of vintage style cross stitch characters is presented as one large chart, but the photo from Sampler Antique Stitch shows each of them stitched up as their own little ornament, so it gets included here. You’ll find Santa and snowmen in different poses in this cute collection.

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