Cross Stitch
A fun and easy holiday ornament design for all stitching skill levels 🙂
Pattern size is 63 x 63 stitches. [Read more…]
This pattern was inspired by classic quilt designs and Quaker style cross stitch motifs.
You can finish this ornament a variety of ways for display, it could even be a biscornu if you’d like. While I do include the color key for the colors I used to stitch my ornament as pictured, I do strongly encourage you to use your own color selections.
Whatever colors you decide on, I look forward to seeing your finished ornament. I hope you’ll come by and share a photo with me in the Stitching the Night Away Facebook group, use hashtag #stitchingthenightaway and/or tag me @retta719 on Instagram, or even email me directly.
Enjoy and Happy Stitching!
If stitching a sampler for a family event is just too much work for you, consider stitching something smaller. Perhaps something ornament-sized. You may not be able to stitch as many details on it, however, they can be just as effective. They also take much less time.
When you don’t feel like making a whole sampler for an upcoming wedding, birth or other event (or you simply don’t have the time), an ornament can be just as effective. I have seen many people hang them on the wall year round instead of just having them on the Christmas tree. As space is limited, you may have to plan on using two pieces of stitching fabric (one for front and one for the back) so you can have the design on one side and the details on the other.
Not sure what to stitch? Here are some ideas:
Weddings/Anniversaries
Births
Death/Memorial
Graduation
Family Tree
This is no means a comprehensive list. Feel free to add ideas in the comments! We all learn from each other in the stitching community.
A few years ago when I was first laid off, I came up with this insane idea to make my daughters an ornament for each Christmas until they were 18. It wasn’t terribly insane for my biological daughters because they were 1 and 2 at the time. What was insane was that I decided to also make ornaments for my stepdaughter who was 15 at the time….starting with when she was born (to be fair, her mother is a poor excuse for a mother so I’ve basically become her mother and I wanted to show her some love that she never really got from her biological mother). I’m happy to report that it only took me two years to get all caught up with her ornaments (started Jan 2013, caught up June 2015). My little ones are still missing an ornament each, but I’m hoping to get all caught up this year.
When I couldn’t find any “baby’s first Christmas” ornaments that I liked, I got creative. Each girl has a nativity scene of the holy family, because since we are Christians and that is what Christmas means to us.
Here’s the front
Then I put the “deets” on the back.
I also created a baptism ornament for each of them (we baptize infants in my church).
I couldn’t find a design so I designed this myself. The “deets” are on the back 😉 If you can’t tell, I like the frayed Aida look when doing double sided ornaments.
We also like to have fun with Christmas, so I try to match the ornaments to my daughters’ interests.
My youngest (who is Autistic) loves Pooh. She kept going up to the tree and pointing at this ornament and saying “Pooh” (which was significant because she was mostly nonverbal at the time).
My older daughter (who is also Autistic) is slightly obsessed with her stuffed orange kitty cat. So I made her one on an ornament. She also enjoys pointing out her name (Z-O-E-dook! – where the dook is her accent).
I also decorated a wood box to keep the ornaments in. My stepdaughter is the only one who has a completed box.
I hope I’ve given you some good sampler alternative ideas. Happy stitching!
This chart includes options for a monogram letter or the year, but instead of providing a separate alphabet I charted each letter as a full ornament so you don’t have to mess around with placement or anything like that, unless of course you want to get creative and squeeze in extra letters. Charts for numbers and the alphabet (upper and lower case) are all included in the PDF as well.
You can stitch two pieces, one monogram and one year, and have a two-sided ornament 😉
I appreciate your support here at Stitching the Night Away
Thank you and happy stitching!
Here’s a thumbnail preview of the pattern pages to give you an idea of what you receive in the PDF download;
Each letter is on its own page, so you can choose to just print the page you need instead of printing off the whole alphabet.
Snowflakes, snowflakes, snowflakes! Snowflakes are fun to stitch – and they’re fun for me to create and share with you as well.
The free snowflake pattern from last December has been one of the most frequently downloaded patterns all year long – thank you for that. I figured it was time for another one, so here’s our second free snowflake pattern. [Read more…]
Snowflakes make great ornaments and can be fun to stitch and embellish. Choose your favorite color or just use up your left over floss.
==> Click here to download the free cross stitch pattern
This is just the first in a long line of snowflakes that are about ornament sized, although I’m sure there are many other things you could use them for, maybe gift tags or something else.
Happy Stitching!
Of course if you stitch this design I would love to see your creation! You can leave a comment here, send me an email, or share your photos on our Facebook wall!
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TW Beginner Whitework Ornament (I’ve stitched like five of these, but this one is mine, the rest were gifts!)
PawPrints Fairy Kit (This wasn’t really meant to be an ornament, but I just love it so it hangs on the tree)
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Another of our older patterns in the new PDF format and with a new name, this was formerly called the February Ornament. Hoping that new names do the patterns more justice and keep us better organized.
==> Click here to download the pattern PDF
If you stitch this piece I would love to see your finished work. You can leave a comment here, send me an email, or share your photos on our Facebook page!
Happy Stitching!
This was originally called our March Ornament, still working on better naming of the patterns as we re-release in PDF format. I hope that’s helping a little bit with organization and keeping track of what’s what on the site.
==> Click here to download the pattern PDF
If you stitch this piece I would love to see your finished work. You can leave a comment here, send me an email, or share your photos on our Facebook page!
Happy Ornament Stitching!
This was one of the first patterns I ever created using PC Stitch
==> Click here to download the pattern PDF
If you stitch this piece I would love to see your finished work. You can leave a comment here, send me an email, or share your photos on our Facebook page!
Happy Ornament Stitching!
Download this free guide about how to cross stitch on evenweaves and linens
If you haven't taken the plunge from aida fabric to evenweave fabric, now is the time to do so.
Expand your project options and enjoy something new.
