Year of the Snake Cross Stitch Patterns

Lunar New Year for 2025 marks the beginning of the year of the snake. Snakes are intelligent and strong-willed, and they can be sneaky and jealous. Let’s celebrate the year of the snake with some fun cross stitch patterns!

This snake coiling into the year 2025 is a fun one, and it’s pretty easy because it’s only worked in two colors. You can get it from Anna X Stitch Art. The pattern is 91 by 76 stitches and comes out to 6.5 by 5.43 inches, or 16.5 by 13.8 cm tall on 14 count fabric.

Red is a classic color for the new year, so why not stitch up a red snake like this one from Lady Stitchicorn? It measures 33 by 40 stitches, which is 2.4 by 2.7 inches/6 by 6.8 cm on 14 count fabric. The snake is stitched in red with backstitch embellishments on the body worked in white.

The Frosted Pumpkin Stitchery does adorable patterns for Lunar New Year each year with the year in lanterns and a cute version of the year’s zodiac sign. The snake in their version is wearing a bow tie and top hat to make it extra festive. It is 58 by 67 stitches, and the pattern includes the full set of numbers if you want it to commemorate a different year of the snake.

The Art of Cross Stitch also has designs for each zodiac symbol, and the year of the snake one uses four colors and is 58 by 71 stitches. It comes out to 5 inches/12.7 cm square when worked on 14 count fabric.

This adorable new year’s greeting from poco a poco stitch has a Japanese twist with Mt. Fuji and the rising sun in the background. Some creature is wearing the snake costume, which adds to the cuteness.

Then there’s a sweet design from Madly Stitch with a cartoonish snake. This one is 90 by 71 stitches and uses five colors, so it’s pretty good for a beginner to try.

If you like blackwork or want to give this style of embroidery a try, check out this blackwork snake from Trunky Stitches. It uses three colors of floss and is all worked in backstitch on 14 count fabric.

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35+ Sunflower Cross Stitch Patterns

If you love patterns for frogs and sardines, animals, food, flowers and more, Happy Cross Stitchers has got you covered. With more than 1,600 patterns as of this writing, you’re almost guaranteed to find something you like.

I don’t know if I’ve missed something that cross stitch patterns featuring sardines are showing up everywhere (this is the second designer I’ve seen with them in the past month or so) but Happy Cross Stitchers has 60 sardine cross stitch patterns. They also have 200 patterns with flowers, and even more than that in their biggest category, which is animals.

Many of the animal cross stitch patterns have a modern nursery feel to them, like this set of four modern boho animal patterns featuring what I’m interpreting as owls, a moose (or it coulr be a deer), a donkey and a cow. Each individual pattern is 100 by 100 stitches and they use six or seven colors. The designs will come out to 7.1 inches or 18.14 cm when stitched on 14 count fabric.

There’s also a large number of Christmas cross stitch patterns, with lots of trees, little houses, Santas and word art. There are lots of bunnies, eggs and chicks in the Easter section.

The modern designs include lots of colorful, graphic florals. There are also well over 100 butterflies, many of which at least look like they could be inspired by real butterflies (though none of them are labeled as to what kind of butterfly they are).

You’ll also find plenty of cute and often funny cat and dog cross stitch patterns, though there are a lot more cats than dogs represented. And then there’s the food section, with patterns for fruits, different kinds of toast, a jar of pickles, doughnuts and more.

And that’s not even all there is in this store! I guess all this is a long way of saying there’s a lot of fun patterns at www.etsy.com/shop/HappyCrossStitchers on Etsy and you should go browse because you’ll probably find something you like. And if you do, I’d like to hear about it!

[Photo: Happy Cross Stitchers]

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