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!

As a knitter, I love a good sheep motif, so let’s take a look at some cute sheep cross stitch patterns.

If you want to stitch a little sheep, this mini square from Good Dog Needleworks is a nice choice. It uses just three colors and measures 32 by 32 stitches. That’s 2.2 inches or about 5.5 cm square if you stitch it on 14 count fabric.

I also love these two little sheep, which you can stitch together or in individual hoops and shown. The designs are form Threadbound Art and use six colors. They are slightly different in size, with one being 21 by 17 stitches and the other 21 by 20. They fit in four inch frames if you work them on 14 count fabric.

You can stitch a sweet sheep bookmark with this design from Kits by SA Stitch. This is not for the person who doesn’t like back stitch, because there’s a lot of that here, but it is really cute. It measures 30 by 91 stitches and uses 10 colors. That will make your bookmark about 2.4 by 6.5 inches, or 6 by 16.5 cm on 14 count fabric.

Stitch a pretty scene of sheep in a meadow with this design from Motok Nytok. It uses 21 colors and the design is 99 by 73 stitches. On 14 count fabric that makes it about 7.07 by 5.21 inches, or 17.96 by 13.24 cm.

This yarn full of cross stitch sheep has a bit of a knitting twist because the sheep all look like they have sweaters on. The design is from Soda Stitch Design and it measures 179 by 216 stitches. The full design uses 27 colors. On 14 count fabric it will work out to 12.78 by 15.42 inches, or 32.48 by 39.19 cm.

Another great one with a knitting theme is this one where the wool is coming off the sheep and straight onto the needles. This one is from Happy Cross Stitchers and uses 12 colors. The pattern is 137 by 137 stitches, which comes out to 9.7 inches or 24.86 cm square on 14 count fabric. This would be a fun one to stitch for the knitter in your life (even if that is you).

Or you can stitch the field of sheep of a knitter’s dreams with the Happy Sheep chart from Charts and Stuff. These per-colored sheep can be stitched as shown or worked in any colors you like. The eyes are French knots but you can just stitch them in white if you’d rather.

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