Celtic Cross Stitch Design

There's just something about Celtic designs. They provide a subtle way to decorate your home for St. Patrick's Day, but they are also offer motifs to have around the house all year long. The cross stitch enthusiast will enjoy making her own.

Cross Stitch and Celtic Design

A lot of crafters obsess over Celtic designs. There are many different websites that provide information and designs with Celtic themes. Celtic designs are graceful, powerful, and striking. They usually incorporate sweeping curves and geometric patterns that can be quite complex.

The Celts were a nomadic race that loved art and poetry. They did not have a true written language, so a lot of their culture was passed down through art that crafters are lucky to still have today.

Sources for Celtic Cross Stitch

There are hundreds of websites out there where you can find information and patterns for Celtic-style cross stitch. Here are a handful of sources.

Aon Celtic

Aon Celtic has charts for a Claddagh ring, a Celtic cross, a beautiful Kells bird, some traditional dancing shoes, and several options for borders. These charts are colored, but they do not offer suggestions for the types of thread you might use, leaving your options wide open to pick your favorite colors.

Celtic Cross Stitch

Celtic Cross Stitch is a great guide to the world of these Irish cross stitch designs. If you don't already know how to cross stitch, you can learn how here. The best part of this site is the free chart generator that allows you to type in any phrase and produce a chart of that phrase in Celtic lettering.

Gold Cup

This software design website also offers charts for a golden brooch, knots and crosses, a couple of borders, and a cool border within a border pattern that would be great as a wall hanging or the front of a pillow. The charts are made to print on a color printer, so if you don't have a way to print in color, you might want to skip this site.

TW Designworks

TW Designworks offers a free Celtic cross pattern that would look great as a Christmas ornament or even on a set of coasters. There's also a cute Celtic-inspired ornament you could stitch up in no time. This would make an adorable little extra something on a gift bag or present; just make sure you tell the person that it is part of the gift!

Eterna Silk

You can find another lovely Celtic cross design at Eterna Silk. While you don't have to make this design with their beautiful 100 percent silk threads, it does look really stunning stitched up that way. This would be a beautiful gift for an Irish (or wish-they-were-Irish) person in your life.

Start Stitching

Cross stitching is an elastic craft, one that you can learn quickly but that can takes years to master. It also lends itself particularly well to the intricate designs of Celtic art. If you have an eye for detail, you won't need the luck of the Irish to make these designs come to life.