Easy Baby Cross Stitching Pattern

When it comes to making hand crafted wares for new parents and their precious new babies, there are countless kinds of DIY things you can make. Some people knit blankets and booties while others sew adorable onesies. Lately, however, we’ve been obsessed with the idea of baby cross stitching. Needlework has long been a highly valued handicraft that not everyone is capable of, so anyone who receives your cross stitched gifts will undoubtedly consider them a work of art. Even if you’re a near beginner and the patterns you’re stitching aren’t overly complicated, the level of love and effort you put into the piece will be more than evident!

To get you started, check out these many adorable baby cross stitching patterns that make perfect shower gifts.

✓ Wrinkled baby feet pattern

This simple pattern from Handmade Adelaide Baby shows you how to emulate, in embroidery floss, one of every parent’s favourite features of their newborn baby; their wrinkly little feet! Besides the cute image, this pattern also outlines how to do a simple bit of text that really brings the piece together.

✓ Bear and blankie pattern

What’s better than a stitched pattern of an adorable little teddy bear? Why, a teddy bear snuggling his very own little blankie, of course!

✓ This fuzzy friend

Vintage clothing cross stitch details
Embroidery cloth isn’t the only thing you can cross stitch pretty little patterns into! This vintage pattern from a book that was first published in 1916, for example, was originally intended for newborn clothing as a lovely embroidered detail for plainer garments.

✓ Baby Ariel and Flounder

When it comes to characters and incorporating them into your crafts, are you a Disney fan first and foremost? Then we have a feeling you’re going to love this simple colour blocked pattern