Free Christmas cross stitch patterns, free stitching charts
All kinds of free embroidery patterns,
cross stitch pattern and motifs.
Stitch these free Christmas Cross Stitch Patterns for a small ornament, gift tag,
or scrapbook embellishment or a card.
Snowmen, Angels, and other designs are included in this Free Cross Stitch Holiday Collection page.
The holidays bring out the stitching urge in many of us.
I have everything you need to stitch your way to Christmas joy, with designs of Santa Claus, Snowmen,
Christmas Trees, Nativity,
traditional Christmas scenes, and more in a variety of difficulties and sizes.
Check out my entire Christmas selection here.
Cross-stitch embroiderers frequently use an even-weave fabric of
linen or cotton and work from charts on
graph paper. Cross-stitching can
also be worked on purpose made cotton Aida cloth which is available in
11, 14, 16, 18, and 22 count sizes and many different colors.
The sizes
of Aida and Evenweave types denote the approximate number of threads
woven per inch.
Special vinyl weaves and perforated paper products are also available as
well as waste canvas which is used
to transfer the embroidery to other
fabrics e.g. to decorate clothes. The size of a piece of embroidery can
be
changed by using a fabric with another count size. Knots such as
French knots are also used in Cross Stitch.
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Christmas
cross stitch patterns
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Christmas
cross stitch patterns
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Christmas
cross stitch patterns
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Christmas
cross stitch patterns
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Christmas
cross stitch patterns
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Christmas
cross stitch patterns
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Christmas cross stitch patterns Xmas designs pages
Free Christmas cross stitch patterns Xmas
balls designs 1
 
Free Christmas cross stitch patterns Xmas
candles designs 2
Free Christmas cross stitch patterns Xmas
bells & angles designs 3
 
Free Christmas cross stitch patterns Xmas
candy & cane designs 4
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Free Christmas cross stitch patterns Xmas
holly & interior designs 5
Free Christmas cross stitch patterns Xmas
bears designs 6
Free Christmas cross stitch patterns Xmas
snowman designs 7
Free Christmas cross stitch patterns Xmas
snowman designs 8
Free Christmas cross stitch patterns Xmas
snowman designs 9
Free Christmas cross stitch patterns Xmas
snowman designs 16
Free Christmas cross stitch patterns Xmas
hats designs 10
Free Christmas cross stitch patterns Xmas
Santa designs 11
Free Christmas cross stitch patterns Xmas
houses & snowflakes designs 12
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wreaths designs 13 
Free Christmas cross stitch patterns Xmas
trees designs 17
 
Free Christmas cross stitch patterns Xmas
gifts & boxes designs 14 
Free Christmas cross stitch patterns Xmas
stocking designs 15 
Free Christmas cross stitch patterns Xmas designs 18
Free Christmas cross stitch patterns Xmas
reindeer designs 19
Cross-stitch fabrics, which come in hundreds of varieties, are
categorized primarily by "thread count", or
the number of threads per
inch. They are also categorized by textile fiber content.
Some more
popular groups of fabric include:
Aida, Linen, Even Weave (Plain Weave),
Hardanger, and Hand Dyed Specialty Fabrics.
Each of the different kinds of fabric have a unique texture, feel and
sheen.
They even smell different depending on what kind of material they
are made out of and how they were dyed.
There are also many different colors in all of these groups to choose
from.
White, off-white, ecru, cream and variations of white being the most
used and most available.
There are many Web sites dedicated to cross stitching;
which offer tips
on how to choose the right fabric for a particular cross-stitch project.
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Today cotton floss is the most usual embroidery thread. It is a thread
made of mercerized cotton,
made of six strands that are only loosely
twisted together and easily separable.
Other materials used are pearl
cotton, Danish flower thread, silk and Rayon.
Danish flower thread is
especially popular for nature motifs which originally came from Denmark.
Sometimes different wool threads, metallic threads or other specialty
threads are used,
sometimes for the whole work, sometimes for accents
and embellishments.
Thread size is usually chosen so that the stitches cover the fabric
completely, creating a tapestry-like effect.
But especially in
monochrome work the thread can also be chosen a bit thinner, so that the
individual crosses
can be recognized as such and let the fabric show
through a bit.
The latter possibility can look nice in monochrome
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