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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Year of the Horse Cross Stitch Patterns

I was directed to a cross stitch pattern from Silverberry Designs for a recent post I was working on, and I knew that I needed to share them with you for one reason: cross stitch Clue.

This re-creation of the Clue game board fits in a 10-inch frame, so it’s not really playable, but I still love it because I loved the game (and the movie) growing up. This pattern is 122 by 127 stitches, which comes out to 8.71 by 9.7 inches, or 22.1 by 23 cm, when worked on 14 count fabric. It uses 10 colors.

It turns out this store has a lot of game related cross stitch patterns. You’ll find playing cards, billiard balls, a roulette table and a classic Nintendo controller. There’s a ouija board, and board games for Sorry, Scrabble and Trouble. So fun for a game room or anywhere else.

The category that has the most patterns is holidays and religion, which is a hodgepodge of Christmas, July fourth and St. Patrick’s Day, with a Star of David, an Islamic crescent and star and some other things thrown in.

There are also a large number of LGBTQ+ patterns, from Pride flags to rainbow hearts and peace signs, and lots of other rainbow designs.

The “words & phrases” section includes bathroom rules, a blank monthly calendar, some snarky signs, teacher appreciation designs and more. You’ll also find a blank map of the United States you can stitch in as you travel, as well as more travel related designs, home and garden, holidays and celebrations, animals (hippo, owl, skunk, bald eagle, cat in leaves, etc.) and more.

The page also sells supplies including 14 count Aida fabric in 12 colors, needles, floss, hoops and more. And they have a subscription box that includes a pattern and all the supplies you need to make it. (The pattern is a surprise but you can contact them to ask if you really must know before you order.)

Check out all the fun stuff at Silverberry Designs.

[Photo: Silverberry Designs]

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