Tag: cross stitch

Various types of flowers but all the bouquets have pretty bows….of course! Tie one on with these embroidery patterns of bodacious bouquets.

I could do with some roosters around here to help with the chores. Neat cross stitch detail in the tails or you could just outline the shapes if X’s aren’t your thing.

Pineapples are a luxury that I indulge in occasionally and I’m grateful they are imported into the local grocery year round. Embroider a single pineapple or the cornucopias of fruit in cross stitch.

Ah, kittens. A cute vintage days of the week set from decades past.

Neat storybook characters Lil’ Bo Peep and Lil’ Boy Blue silhouette style with cross stitches or the traditional outline embroidery pattern.

Hug a kitten, kittens with cross stitch detail, heads of kittens and more!

These are from the 1850s and most likely hand-drawn. The cross stitch certainly does and in the artistic world we call them “charming.”

Cross stitches are very useful as fillers or edgings or just about anywhere! A long time ago and in a land far away a little girl’s gingham dress might be embellished with rows of cross stitch embroidered in a contrasting color.