Tiny Cross Stitch Patterns

As much as I want to be the kind of cross stitcher who does lots of big, involved projects, that’s really not who I am. I love tiny cross stitch patterns, which are quick to make, don’t require a lot of supplies, and can be used in lots of cute ways.

Earlier this year I made magnets with itty bitty cross stitch pieces in them, and since then I’ve been on a mission to stitch more little cross stitch patterns.

Another great thing about them is that you can buy a whole lot of mini cross stitch patterns in sets, often for a similar price that you’d pay for one larger design.

Take this set of 100+ mini cross stitch patterns from Samwise Simple Stitch. It’s full of seasonal designs including summer, Halloween, Christmas and back to school, so you could stitch these little designs onto projects for most of the year and only pay for them once. If you like to do cross stitch or embroidery that chronicles your year this would be a great set to help with that.

Or take a look at this set of 300 2-inch (5 cm) designs from Cross Stitch by Coconut. These are designed to appeal to kids so there are lots of things like mermaids, dinosaurs, diggers, bugs, food with faces, baby motifs and a lot more. These would be fun to stitch sampler style to decorate a kids room, or use on bibs, greeting cards, bookmarks and more.

And of course there are whole shops devoted to little cross stitch designs, like Teeny Weeny X Stitch. They have tons of bundles of little patterns, as well as individual projects you can buy, but how about a tiny 50 states as an example? Each state is less than 40 by 40 stitches, so they come out smaller than 3 inches/7.6 cm each. You can stitch up the states you like or make a long-term project of stitching the whole country, one small cross stitch design at a time.

Do you like tiny cross stitch patterns? And what do you consider small if you do? I’d love to hear your thoughts!

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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