Use a Kit to Cross Stitch a Piece of Jewelry

I get a subscription box (the Introvert’s Retreat Box, which is run by a friend of mine but that isn’t an affiliate link) that sometimes has little craft projects in it and the one for this month had a lovely little bamboo pendant kit from Red Gate Stitchery that you could cross stitch a heart on.

I made mine in the 20 minutes or so I was on a conference call that should have been an email, and my daughter promptly took it to wear.

The kit includes the bamboo base with pre-cut holes, three colors of thread to choose from, a couple of sewing needles, the necklace chain, a chart and basic instructions. (The kits she sells on etsy seem to only have one color of thread.)

This is easy enough for a new stitcher to do and would be a great gift for a young person — or any person — you’re trying to encourage to get into cross stitch. Then of course they can keep the necklace or gift it to someone else. How’s that for some good crafty karma?

Have you ever used a cross-stitch jewelry kit? I’d love to hear about it!

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A Possible Cross Stitch Project to Try

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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