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Cross Stitch - a home for stitchers, finished objects (FOs), works-in-progress (WIPs), patterns, and more!


>>>FAQ & How To<<<


🗓 Monthly Events

A lot is happening, stitchers! Here's a summary of what to look out for each month.

Week 1

🎊 Feature Artist

🏆 Monthly Competition Winners

Week 3

🎁 Free Pattern: Theme Voting

Week 4

🏆 Monthly Competition Submission and Voting 🎁 Free Pattern: Previous Month's Pattern Posted


🎁 Cross Stitcher Gift Guide


Rules

  1. Be supportive, welcoming and kind Exercise good reddiquette.
  2. Read the FAQ & How To before posting a question. This resource has everything, including pattern making programs, apps & websites, finishing techniques, and how to get started.
  3. Don't request, share, or post photos of copyrighted patterns. Patterns should not be in any photograph unless asking for help on how to read a zoomed in portion. Any patterns in the background of photos must be obfuscated or blacked out.
  4. Include the pattern source in every FO post. This can be in the title of your FO post or as the first comment. Sources can include: 'self-drafted', store name and pattern name, or 'internet search'. Do not link directly to Pinterest or Google, just state the website.
  5. Only cross-stitch and blackwork are allowed. We are changing this rule to allow only cross stitch and blackwork as of 8/1/2021. All future embroidery pieces will be removed from the sub and directed to /r/embroidery.
  6. Do not make an original post linking to your blog/shop. Linking to your blog/shop are okay in the comments if you are providing a source for your [FO], answering a question, or providing a pattern for free to the community. Use the 90-10 rule as a guide. Here is an FAQ for shop owners
  7. No bots. All bots are banned unless the bot provides exceptional value to /r/CrossStitch.

Tags for posting:

Only one tag per post.

[FO] Finished Thread-and-Fabric Object. All [FO] posts must be a completed pattern done on fabric with thread. Don't forget this partners with Rule Four: Cite your source!

[WIP] Work In Progress

[PATTERN] Free and ready to download patterns.

[CHAT] Cross Stitch related questions, discussions, pattern requests, or general self-posts where photos aren’t necessary.

[PIC] Cross stitch-related photo including memes, hauls, pet pictures, self-made needle minders, dyed fabrics, and other pics related to cross stitching.

[VIDEO] Flosstube, tutorial, time-lapse.

[SHOP] If you're linking back to your own shop, use the SHOP flair. Limit one post per month. Please review Rule 6!


🎁 Monthly Free Pattern 🎁

October:

Ghosts in Glowing Gloom

Bee-Witched Moonlight Flight

September:

Squirrel Postage Stamp

August:

Cat Postage Stamp

July:

Snail Postage Stamp

June:

Woodland Strawberries

May:

Swan Postage Stamp

April:

Butterfly Postage Stamp March:

Moon Tea Time

February:

Count Twice Stitch Once

January:

Victory's Laurel Wreath and Key

🗄 View Pattern Archive


🛍 Continuous Craft Fair 🛍

Checkout the Shops

Are you a shop owner? Apply for the Continuous Craft Fair


🏆 Monthly Competition 🏆

2022 monthly themes: Find the list in this post. Competition and voting are the last seven days of each month.

Find more information about the monthly competition here!


Related Subreddits

/r/Embroidery

/r/Needlepoint

/r/Stitchy

/r/Crafts

/r/RandomActsOfCrafts

/r/nintendostitch

r/StitchesLostAndFound

r/DrunkXStitch

/r/CrossStitch

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[WIP] Nobody's gonna know... How would they know?

If I don't tell them about mistakes and the thread changes, lol.

I don't have the 03 and 04 colors, so replaced them with 317 and 318. My mistake as these lack of contrast, but I still love how it comes out and enjoy the process.

The pattern is American Gothic from Etsy

3 Comments
2024/12/01
20:34 UTC

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[FO] Christmas ornaments

Posted about these earlier, asking for advice. In the end I ended up switching to linen because my Aida and metallic threads just didn’t get along 😔

Because of the time it took to start over, I decided not to do a border or anything extra but go with just a small oval loop.

Really pleased with the results (well, de N is still in progress) and officially my very first ever finish objects!

Can’t wait to gift this to my sister and her family next Saturday! 🥰

1 Comment
2024/12/01
20:34 UTC

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[CHAT] Stain on aida

I have a stain on my aida. It is a full cover piece, should I just hope the stitches cover it? Or should I try to get rid of it?

Any tips are welcome!

2 Comments
2024/12/01
20:29 UTC

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[WIP] So who else out there struggling to get a Christmas present done on time….😅😅

By god I’m tryin’ but the motivation ain’t there.

7 Comments
2024/12/01
19:49 UTC

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[FO] My first cross stitch. Made many mistakes like the words being off center, but I think I've found a new hobby!

0 Comments
2024/12/01
19:45 UTC

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[CHAT] I got my wife the Lowery

I took everyone’s advice and got my wife the Lowery for her birthday. And a lamp. It’s a hit :) thank you!!

1 Comment
2024/12/01
19:33 UTC

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[FO] Another section for r/placeCrossStitch done

1 Comment
2024/12/01
19:09 UTC

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[CHAT] Does anyone have any tips on going faster?

I'm so slow and I really don't know how to go any faster. I have a few projects I wanted to get done by Christmas not realizing how much time I would need. I have completed 1 but am halfway through 2 others and not even started on the last 1... But the last one is gonna take me all year. Am I just severely underestimating how long it should take?

15 Comments
2024/12/01
17:52 UTC

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[FO] Another one, finally done ☺️

Pattern is "Cat" from DMC. Not original colours, but I am still proud of myself. My first try of 1/4 stitches.

2 Comments
2024/12/01
17:36 UTC

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[FO] the Gunslinger

Pattern by SnarkyArtCompany He’s ready to frame!

1 Comment
2024/12/01
17:28 UTC

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[FO] my one metallic piece of the year

Because I'm not a glutton for punishment, I only do one metallic piece per year. Here is this year's sacrifice. I heavily altered this pattern from KalandraDesign on Etsy.

3 Comments
2024/12/01
17:13 UTC

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[CHAT] Show us ya WIP'S

It's crunch time for us Christmas gifters! I'll be working hard and sleeping very little! Let's see where you're at on any and everything! Don't forget pattern credit and no patterns in photos! https://www.etsy.com/listing/1612582675/snowmen-ornament-cross-stitch-pattern

77 Comments
2024/12/01
17:13 UTC

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[FO] first ever gifted FO!

made this as a gift for my anxious fiancé who feeds me delicious meals ❤️ we’re going to put it in a square frame later!

3 Comments
2024/12/01
17:07 UTC

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[FO] Xmas 2024

The inaugural Christmas gift to the husby. I’ve done one of these cross stitch patterns since taken it up in 2021

🪡 Design by BeverlyStreetShop https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1781371925/ 🕥 4 hours 24 mins as

0 Comments
2024/12/01
14:56 UTC

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[WIP] Victorian Mausoleum by ScreamingHeartDsigns

The pattern reminded me of Emmrich from the new Dragon Age game, so I went with a fade green and a dark emerald to match him.

4 Comments
2024/12/01
14:07 UTC

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[MOD] 2024 Advent Calendar Megathread

Hey everyone! The countdown to Christmas has started and with it the Advent calendars. If anyone of you has gotten a cross stitch Advent Calendar, this is the thread to post about it.

There's only one extra rule for posting in this thread, to avoid spoiling it for everyone: After you've opened your daily goodie, please wait 24 hours to post it here. So if you open Day 1, do not post about it until December 2nd and so on.

(Everyone in Asia and Australia please remember that you're up to 19 hours ahead of anyone on the east coast of the US. So please don't wake up on the day after and immediately post. It will still be the middle of the previous day for some people.)

Small reminder: Charts are not allowed in pictures. So please keep that in mind while posting.

8 Comments
2024/12/01
12:40 UTC

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[FO] Hatchette Partwork's Disney Cross Stitch Sampler 7 - The Villains

Part 7 of I don't know how many more. I'm sad that in falling put of love with this. It's my own fault - the sampler comes with 11ct aida which I thought was too much so I swapped it out for 16ct. But now the backstitch is hard going and I'm losing the details in their faces. Hopefully I will find the love to get round to part 8 at somepoint

0 Comments
2024/12/01
11:43 UTC

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[PIC] Out of the Blue Gift!

My Mom surprised me by giving me her floss collection on Thanksgiving. I had no idea she even had floss (she’s a prolific knitter). Everything is incredibly neatly labeled and in numerical order. I’m so excited and grateful! This gift will hopefully save me some trips to the craft stores (for now).

20 Comments
2024/12/01
10:41 UTC

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[FO] Beetlejuice: the Sandworms of Titan. By me!

0 Comments
2024/12/01
09:30 UTC

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[PIC] does anyone know how to make these into a pattern ?

so taylor swift has added these concept drawings into her book and i’d love to be able to cross stitch them into small cross stitch pieces.

only problem is tho, if i try to go small then every detail will be lost so i guess id like some help with getting that detail and where to find a place to make it ? or if anyone has already made patterns similar.

4 Comments
2024/12/01
09:29 UTC

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[CHAT]Lewis Hamilton (F1 driver) Pattern Opinion(s)

So I've been trying to find a good Lewis Hamilton (F1 driver) pattern to make for a friend, I found a few, but they're not quite what I was going for.

So I tried making my own using a combination of obamapostermaker.com and Floss Cross (.com). A full color image would need around 70+ colors to make it look good, an that felt daunting. I'm very recreational, so I went in the opposite direction, to under 7 colors. Regardless, I'm not sure I want to start a project of this size if it's going to suck.

So, does this even look like Lewis Hamilton? Would YOU start this project with this pattern? How would you improve upon this? The more I look at it, the more I don't like it. It's like a mug shot. Or a Terminator/android/robot. And I think I screwed up the eyes. Ay ay ay ay.

edit, yeah some stitches are missing, I've been trying to reduce the number of colors by removing and replacing, which is to say it's not the empty spaces I'm worried about. Just the whole thing. Ugh.

3 Comments
2024/12/01
08:44 UTC

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[FO] My first clumsy finish!

Definitely need to keep practicing but so chuffed with this result.

12 Comments
2024/12/01
08:31 UTC

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