Free Cross Stitching Patterns

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Cross stitch is a wonderful, easy craft for all ages. You can cross stitch the fronts of pillows, linens, scenes to frame, bookmarks and more. Even better, you can find all sorts of simple patterns on the Internet that you can download for free.

A treasure trove of free patterns

Free Patterns Online is a great little site with a good collection of small patterns broken down into sections. There are holiday patterns, Christian patterns, initials, alphabets and letters, florals, animals, borders and more.

You could even combine several of these small patterns into a bigger design, like a series of farm animals on a baby blanket. There’s also a series of “teeny tiny” charts of things like pumpkins, a Christmas tree and snowman, crayons, watermelons, strawberries, tulips and more. These could be combined onto a bookmark or as the border on a larger piece.

This site offers all sorts of inspiration for anyone who likes quick little cute patterns. All these patterns are made to be stitched on 14 count Aida, which is widely available everywhere.

Other free cross stitch pattern sites

  • Bird Patterns If you like birds or have a nature lover in your circle who you’d like to make gifts for, check out this site with patterns of bird and flowers. Some of these are charts, while some are simply hand-drawn representations on the pattern, from which you might want to draw your own chart (the site listed about has blank chart pages).

These are small but lovely patterns that would be perfect for the corner of a linen towel or for a small framed piece.

  • Stitch Alley For some really beautiful free charts, check out Stitch Alley. This site has some great alphabet samplers, lots of animals, garden motifs and a beautiful heart pattern reminiscent of red work. You can also find a whole series of patterns of roses here.

This site also offers cross stitch patterns that cost money, some of which are really gorgeous. They range in price from 75 cents to about $3.00, so downloading a pattern or two probably won’t break the bank.

  • this site has a good collection of basic cross stitch patterns. Note that each page also has a link to a kit, which costs money. There are at least a couple of patterns in each of 26 categories on this site, so whether you’re looking for rabbits or sea motifs, you’ll find something to stitch here.
  • DMC The good folks who make the embroidery floss that most people use have a collection of more than 40 patterns for cotton floss and more than 20 patterns for using linen floss. The site also includes information about cross stitch design, getting ready to cross stitch and how to care for cross stitched pieces.
  • All Crafts For a decent collection of patterns found on other websites, visit All Crafts. Since these are all outside links, not all of them work, but there is a wide range of pieces represented here, from snowmen to aliens.

Keeping track of your free cross stitch patterns

The All Crafts site is a good lesson for those of us who see cool patterns and don’t print them immediately. Sites get rearranged frequently and sometimes freebies are removed completely after a certain period of time. So if you see something you like, print it out now.

You’ll probably want to start a three-ring binder that you can load patterns into so that you can find them whenever you need them. If you use sheet protectors you can even slide your project and extra floss into the pocket when you’re not working on it, so everything stay together in one neat little package. Scanning your old patterns and saving them on the computer or cd helps preserve your patterns and can be sent to friends online.

And, of course, don’t be afraid to try your hand at drawing a cross stitch chart yourself if you can’t find what you want. The best free designs are the ones you make yourself, because they are exactly the way you envisioned it. Happy crafting!

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plese give crossstich desing because i love cross stich

-- Contributed by: zahabia

Stitch,

Unfortunately, LTK Crafts is not affiliated with any of the sites mentioned in this article. If you're having trouble accessing a pattern you purchased, you will need to contact the site directly for assistance.

Dana Hinders

LoveToKnow Crafts Editor

-- Contributed by: Danahinders

Hi, I accessed Stitch Alley thru your website. I bought some of their Patterns, but now can no longer access them to retrieve my patterns. Can you help me.

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