St Patrick’s Day Mini Cat Free Pattern

I have designed another free mini cat cross stitch pattern that’s perfect for St. Patrick’s Day. 

It’s small enough to finish in a single afternoon (ideally with a cat napping on your lap) and cute enough to display all year round. Also includes free floss tags!

You can find the link below for the pattern

This new addition joins the growing gallery of "lucky kittens." 

If you’re looking to create a full set, be sure to check out the previous St. Patrick’s Day cat designs located further down this page!

Grab your favorite shade of emerald green floss, and let’s get stitching!

Why You’ll Love This Pattern:

• Quick & Easy: Perfect for a "one-sitting" craft session.

• Beginner Friendly: Uses only full cross stitches and some back stitches for the balloon strings and the lettering. 

• The Perfect Freebie: Designed to complement the earlier Irish-themed cat patterns for a cohesive look.

  
  

  How to Get Started for a beginner stitcher.

  Before you start stitching your lucky charm, make sure you have your supplies ready. For advanced stitchers you likely already have most of these in your craft stash!

  What You’ll Need:

  • Aida Cloth: 14-count white or ecru fabric works beautifully for this design.

  • Embroidery Floss: Shades of vibrant green, a black for the cat, and a bright orange for the flag.

  • Needle: A size 24 or 26 tapestry needle.

  • Hoop: A small 3-inch or 4-inch hoop to keep your fabric taut.

  • Scissors: For snipping your threads.

  Quick Pro-Tip: If you’re planning on stitching the entire collection found below, try using a single larger piece of Aida cloth and spacing the cats out to create a festive "St. Paddy’s Kitty" sampler!

  

  Design layout suggestion

  Links to the patterns below

  
  
  
  Due to copyright theft my free patterns in the future will be available via a link and then via email in the contact form.
  
  
  Links to the pattern, click the link to be taken to the page
  
  
  The new pdf pattern with the balloons will be available for a short time at this link, after the link has expired you can email me for a copy if you wish.
  
  
  St Patricks Day Cat  this one is not shown above.
  
  
  2 Cats on the Top Hats holding the 4 leaf clover and the single mini cat on the top hat. 
  
  
  17th March with love hearts 
  
  
  Lucky Day with the pot of gold in the middle is not available at a link, contact me for the pattern.
  
  
  
  
  Send me a note with a screenshot or details of the pattern through my contact form, just remember to include your email address so I can send it over. Your email will only be used to send the pattern. 
  
  
  Finishing Tips? 
  
  
  If you want some ideas for finishing then check out this 3 minute video of fully finished objects (FFO) on my blog.
  
  
  
  
  A cute finish into a scissor fob and pin cushion.
  Pattern below.
  
  
  

  
  

  Pretty beaded scissor fob

  

  
  
  

  Right click on the image to save.

  
  

  

  
  

  Whether you’re stitching up a tiny companion for a tiered tray or gifting a "lucky" charm to a fellow feline lover, I hope these patterns bring a bit of mischievous magic to your needles. 

  These little black cats prove that you don’t need a four-leaf clover to have a lucky St. Patrick’s Day—just some green thread and a little bit of "cattitude”. 😹😻

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  Show Off Your Stitches.

  I’d love to see your finished projects, you can email me a photo and I will show it on my blog.

  Until next time, Happy Stitching!

  
  
  
  
  
  

Mattress Pin Cushion Tutorial

Hi everyone, I have been re-uploading some of my original posts from my old tutorial blog and decided to post them on here.

This is a mattress pin cushion I made quite some time ago.

Materials required

Finished cross stitch piece

Lightweight interfacing (Pellon in America)

Sharp scissors 

Polyester fibre fill or flat quilt batting 

Embroidery thread to match your design

Needle

You can make any design into a mattress pincushion as long as you stitch an outline around your pattern and create the panels with the same amount of stitches to line up with other pieces, you will see what I mean when you look at all of the photos.

Iron lightweight interfacing onto the back of each panel piece just within the edging lines.  

Cut all panels like this

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Line up edge so that each backstitch lines up with the backstitch on the other piece 

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Like this.......

You should have exactly the same amount of back stitches on each side.

 

  Attach the next piece at the bottom, see the next picture for a close    up! 

Can you see?  As long as you have exactly the same amount of stitches to match each side then it will be easy!

When you have stitched all four sides it should now look like this.

Fold over the corners and stitch them together

There are two ways to fill your mattress, one with fibrefill, which is the way I did it or you can cut pieces of quilt batting the same size as your mattress pincushion and place them inside the mattress before attaching the bottom of the mattress. 

Using the quilt batting will give a much sharper finish  to your mattress, I have made one with quilt batting and I think it was much nicer.

Attach the bottom piece and stitch to the top section and fill with fibre fill before you close the opening.

Your mattress pincushion should now look like this.

I think there are a few hundred french knots in this!

If you would like to see more mattress pin cushions then type Mattress Pin Cushion in the search bar or here are a few links below…

Mattress Pin Cushion from an Exchange 

Red and White Alphabet Mattress Pin Cushion

Little House Needleworks Mattress Pin Cushion 

Sew Pretty Mattress Pin Cushion

Until next time, happy stitching!

Valentine Love Mini Cat

 Hi everyone, this is a re-uploading of a pattern I posted a few years ago, when I switched back to blogger I lost a lot of posts so have decided to upload them again.

Apologies if you have already seen this one, if you haven’t then the pattern is below. 

Click the image to make it clearer

                                                                 Backstitch colours below

This pattern below is the same but with the word Love 

      Click the image to make it clearer

 

Until next time, Happy Stitching! 

Have A Nice Day Free Cross Stitch Pattern

Hi everyone, this is a re-uploading of a pattern I posted a few years ago, when I switched back to blogger I lost a lot of posts so have decided to upload them again.

Apologies if you have already seen this one, if you haven’t then the pattern is below. 

                                                       Click the image to make it clearer

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                               Until next time, happy stitching!

Free Valentine Cross Stitch Pattern

Hi everyone, Love is In The Air!

Another free cross stitch pattern for you to stitch, hope you love it. 

The pattern was available for a short time in a link but that is no longer available due to storage limits.

If you prefer you can click on the image below and save to your ipad or computer but it may not be as clear as it could be. You are welcome to message me in the contact form for a pdf copy if it is no longer available via the link, but I will need your email address to reply. 

Your email will only be used to respond to your message.

There are also a set of matching floss tags for the pattern, if you would like a copy with watermarks removed please message me in the comment section at the top of the website.

Until next time, Happy Stitching!