FREE Cross Stitch Pattern - Our Father and Stitch-along

I am so excited!!!

Our Father cross stitch pattern by Ann Dreyer

Last December, I remember thinking "I want to stitch something holy." And I mentioned it on Instagram. I found a few patterns but not THE one. A few months later, my sweet friend and I were messaging back and forth about various patterns with scripture. She asked if I knew any with The Lord's Prayer. I didn't, but a quick search revealed several beautiful ones, but again, not THE one. 

By summer, I was imagining it and trying to sketch it out. I designed a font in Google Sheets. Lolol. After a rough draft on StitchFiddle, I finally purchased a cross stitch program and got the text finished. 

And then it sat for a month. 

I designed patterns for a dozen North American birds and a few flowers. And finally over the last few weeks it came together. (And those North American birds are on hold for my next design!) 

Sorry, I like stories and details. Anyhow, here it is! I'm so excited to share the pattern that I haven't even stitched it up yet!

**CORRECTIONS: 

* Text color will take at least 3 skeins of DMC 208. 

* The charts below have had corrections to the green birds (missing top crest stitch) and the colors of the outer borders of 1st and last line of text. Feel free to use whatever color goes well with your fabric/floss choices.  

*I apologize for any inconvenience!

Copyright applies to all of my patterns. Paper or digital charts cannot be reproduced, copied, or sold. Items made using my charts cannot be sold. Thank you for following international copyright law.  

*** CLICK HERE FOR THE COLOR CHART ***

*** CLICK HERE FOR THE BLACK AND WHITE SYMBOLS CHART ***

*** CLICK HERE FOR THE LARGE PRINT COLOR CHART ***

Details:

• Please use the hashtag #OurFatherSAL on Instagram so I can see your work!
• I plan on starting the day after Thanksgiving, Friday the 25th, and hope to finish it by Christmas. (update: lololol it is June 19th and I'm still not finished.) I'd love for you to join me.
• One condition though! This must be kept stress-free, fun, relaxing, and as a time to talk to our amazing Father with the words that Jesus so graciously gave us. Deal?
• Pattern size and colors are on the last page of the pdf documents. And if you're an aida girl like me, this *should* finish to fit in an 11x14 frame. 
• That reminds me... Like I said, I haven't stitched this and it is my first big pattern. I've quadruple checked it, but if you find a spelling mistake or chart error, please let me know so I can correct it. Thanks!
• Message me on Instagram @AnnMakesThings if you are having trouble opening the charts. 
• Please feel free to make this in your own colorway or as a 1 color sampler.
• Also, the colors on the chart/screen are NOT quite accurate to the actual floss skein colors, but I based the design off of the true skein colors. Aren't they yummy??

Make sure if you are using 208 for the text that you get enough skeins from the same dye-lot. The one labeled "208." was slightly darker. I used about 2.5 skeins for mine.

If you can't get # 16, I think using 704 as the lighter green and maybe 702 as the darker would work.

If you stitch this and share on Instagram, please use #OurFatherSAL or tag me @annmakesthings so I can see it.

I'm believing that this will bring us ALL peace and comfort during the holy season.

(And psst... even though it's free, it is still copyrighted so don't steal it, ok?!)

:) Ann

"And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying, Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men." - Luke 2:10-14 KJV

FREE Cross Stitch Pattern - Christmas Santa Kitty Cat

Hello friends! I am back with another tiny cross stitch pattern!

Last week I finished the Christmastime Mystery Stitch Along by Fat Quarter Shop (click HERE for a link to Kimberly's adorable, free pattern). I added a little stocking from last year's stitch along and noticed that there was some space above the hot cocoa mug. So I asked my co-designer (my 6 year old daughter) what I should put there. "CATS!!! And a cat on the line and a cat by the mittens and a cat over there.....!"

She had me at cats! But I did hold myself back and only added one to look like our crazy kitty, Bolt.

Copyright applies to all of my patterns. Paper or digital charts cannot be reproduced, copied, or sold. Items made using my charts cannot be sold. Thank you for following international copyright law.  

Click *HERE* for the free PDF and feel free to change the colors to match your own cat! Tag me on Instagram so I can see it.

FYI, I couldn't figure out how to make the backstitched whiskers print black on the pattern so they could be seen better, but hopefully it is clear enough. I also did a white backstitch around the green eyes to make them stand out.

Also the sweet community over on the Instagram seems to like my Christmas colors so below are the colors I used in this piece.

48 variegated pink

601 solid pink (for mug and hat)

906 dark green

907 lighter green

842 light brown

b5200 snow white

3843, 3844, 3845 blues

169 gray

I hope you enjoy this little pattern. Have a blessed day.

:) Ann

"Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty."

2 Corinthians 3: 17 NKJV

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FREE Cross Stitch Pattern - Granny Squares Mini Blanket

So excited to finally share this pattern! 

I love to crochet but have misplaced my crojo since 2020. 

Fortunately that's when I began to focus on little, portable, car-line-friendly cross stitch projects. Then I decided to combine the two and create a crochet granny square pattern done in cross stitch. 

I designed it back in the spring of this year and chuckled when a fabulous, famous designer released a granny square pattern a month later. (Actually I was pretty discouraged, but later realized that they were actually rather different from each other.) So at last here is MY pattern! 

The fun thing is how you can customize it with your own colors and how many squares you decide to do: 1 huge one, 4 together like mine, or 9 or 100! It is up to you. 

The first one I did in my favorite color palette, but I have added 2 more versions. Look at those yummy colors!!! (For my Instagram friends, these colors are in my Lori Holt "Flea Market Flowers" and in my Jeannette Douglas "Mini Bouquet Sampler." 

One with jewel tone colors.

And one with fall or 70's colors.

Now for the patterns. I'm new to sharing pdf's on Blogger, so please comment below (or on Instagram) if you have trouble opening or downloading any of these. 

**Click on the diagram below of the colorway you would like for a FREE pdf of the FULL pattern and floss numbers.** 

Copyright applies to all of my patterns. Paper or digital charts cannot be reproduced, copied, or sold. Items made using my charts cannot be sold. Thank you for following international copyright law.  

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I hope you enjoy them. Tag me on Instagram if you make one so I can see it! @annmakesthings

And stay tuned... I have an extra special, big pattern I've been working on and hope to do a stitch-along with it in November!

Have a blessed day!

:) Ann

"The Lord bless thee, and keep thee: The Lord make His face shine upon thee and be gracious unto thee: The Lord lift up His countenance upon thee, and give thee peace."

Numbers 6:24-26 KJV 

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my go-to color palette

Happy Wednesday! Today I thought I'd share my go-to color palette for cross stitch! I love bright, spring colors and frequently substitute called-for colors with some variation of the pic below.

Aren't those yummy?!

The first time I used them was in the 2021 stitch-along from Fat Quarter Shop. I couldn't resist stitching up Lori Holt's Flea Market Flowers! You can purchase a pattern HERE.

(haha I still need to iron and finish this big guy!) This is white 14 count aida.

I also added a yellow butterfly in honor of my mom. She passed away in 2019 and in the weeks following, I saw sooooo many yellow swallowtail butterflies! 

A little heart and my initials in the top right and done!

But my favorite change was making a :) in the face of one of the flowers.

Such a fun project!

And these are the same colors I am using for Jeanette Douglas' free mini bouquet SAL that I shared HERE.

Thanks for stopping by! God loves you!

:) Ann

hello

Hi! I'm Ann and I make things. Thank you for checking out my blog. Currently, I'm on a cross stitch kick. 

Below is a WIP (work in progress) that is a lovely free SAL (stitch along) from the talented Jeanette Douglas. A new bouquet is posted to her blog on the 1st of each month of 2022.

I have substituted all of the colors for a brighter palette and will list the numbers in my next post. 

I am also working on a cross stitched version of this granny square blanket I made for my daughter years ago.

Should be another colorful project!

Thanks for stopping by! God loves you!

:) Ann