Winter Animal Cross Stitch Patterns

If you’re in the part of the world where it’s winter right now, it’s winter for the animals, too, so let’s stitch up some cute winter animal cross stitch patterns.

Some of these projects are more literal than others, but let’s start with the fanciful, because who can resist a squirrel in a sweater? This set of three animals also includes a fox and a mouse in jackets, hats and scarves. The designs are from Wonder Stitch UA and were designed by Nastya Lanova. The projects vary a bit in size and the number of colors used but they’re all adorable.

Speaking of mice bundled up for the cold, there’s also this sweet little one form Kits by SAstitch. It measures 84 by 95 stitches, which comes out to 6.1 by 6.9 inches or 15.5 by 17.5 cm on 14 count fabric. It uses 22 colors and 11 blends to work its magic.

On the more realistic end of the spectrum, there’s this pretty black eyed junco (thanks, pattern listing, for keeping me from calling it a bluebird!) from Stitch Craft Creatives. The design is 300 by 150 stitches, or 21.5 by 10.75 inches, or 54.61 by 27.31 cm on 14 count fabric. It’s meant to be worked on one side of a horizontal piece of fabric, but I think there’s only stitching right around the bird and the rest of the fabric is blank. (Photo above is just of the bird.)

I love these little pillows of animals in the snow from Little Stitcher Shop. This set includes a fox, robin, blackbird, deer and squirrel, shown worked on linen fabric.

Or try these pretty animals with wreaths, snowflakes and other cute details. This set with a fox and cardinal, polar bear and deer is from Puntini Puntini Store, and each design is 67 by 66 stitches.

Max Stitches Art has this cute hare in the snowy forest pattern, which I only just realized reading the pattern description is actually a snow globe! It calls for 13 colors and is 71 by 75 stitches. On 14 count fabrics that comes out to 5.07 by 5.36 inches, or 12.88 by 13.61 cm.

If super realistic is more your style, try this gorgeous wolf in the snow pattern from X Stitch Pattern X. It is 180 by 180 stitches, or 12.6 inches/32.7 cm on 14 count fabric. The pattern includes measures for other counts if you want to make it smaller. The pattern use 51 colors.

I started writing this one as a designer spotlight kind of post, and then I realized when I was almost done with it that I had actually featured this designer before. It was in late 2024, so I’ll forgive myself for forgetting, but it’s worth taking another look at Mama Witch Cross Stitch. It looks like the shop has changed a bit since the last time I looked in, and you all just needed to see this amazing pattern anyway.

In the listing this one is called “whimsical opossum,” because of course it is. This little creature is sporting a straw hat and playing a banjo next to a crock of moonshine and surrounded by a wreath of pumpkins, mushrooms and other fall icons. Clicking through the images, though, I see it’s also called Possum Song, which is also pretty great.

Either way, the design is 144 by 130 stitches, which comes out to 10.29 by 9.29 inches, or about 26 by 23.5 cm on 14 count fabric.

This is not the only possum pattern offered by this shop, but you get the vibe from this one.

And to quickly check in on the rest of the shop, there are a great number of Halloween themed cross stitch patterns here, too, many with a sort of dark whimsy like mermaid skeletons, cat witches and a pumpkin-headed rider on a skeleton unicorn, to name just a few.

Another category worth noting, though it is much smaller, is “sad Victorian ghosts,” which features ghosts (sometimes in Victorian garb, sometimes not) going to the pub and the library, hanging laundry and taking a bath.

There are also a lot of Christmas designs, some sweet and some snarky, and a few creepy ones, too. Other categories include the new for 2026 “sunny patterns” (similar style motifs just with brighter colors and lighter backgrounds), as well as bookmarks and mini cross stitch designs.

[Photo: Mama Witch Cross Stitch]

Have you read?