Wear Cross Stitch on Your Clothes

I love large-scale cross-stitch projects, because they are such a different way of seeing the craft, which is usually rather dainty.

Über Chic for Cheap has two projects where she added cross stitch to a sweater or shirt: a heart and a floral design.

I like looking at both of the projects together because one is done on a smooth fabric while the other is more textured, which makes the stitching that much easier — it’s just like regular cross stitch.

The heart pattern shows how to print out the design, pin it to your shirt, do the stitching and then remove the paper so you have just the cross stitch remaining. It’s a great tutorial for stitching on any kind of fabric that doesn’t already have squares.

Have you ever stitched on a garment or another piece of fabric not made for cross stitch? I’d love to hear about it.

[Photo: Über Chic for Cheap.]

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15 Ugly Christmas Holiday Sweaters To Cross Stitch

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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