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Cross stitch is a form of counted thread embroidery that has been around for ages, and it is widely regarded as one of the easiest forms of hand embroidery, making it an accessible hobby for virtually everyone.
One of the biggest online communities advocating for this craft is the aptly titled subreddit r/CrossStitch. As you may have seen in our earlier article on this place, its 404K members are constantly sharing pictures of their proud works, and they serve as perfect examples of cross-stitching's limitless potential.
However, since the subreddit remains really active, we thought it was about time we made an update on it. Continue scrolling to check out its latest gems.
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#1
First Time Using Glow In The Dark Thread, It Was Super Fiddly And The Stitches Came Out Quite Messy But I Love The Glow
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#2
Agoraphobic But Missing Art Galleries, I've Started Stitching My Own Mini One
#3
When I Was A Teenager, My Dad Took A Newly-Started Version Of This Away Because "Cross-Stitching Is For Girls". Cut To 20 Years Later As A Proud Gay Man, I Found This On Amazon And Completed Last Week As My First Project And A Huge Symbolic Personal Achievement. Take That Dad!
#4
Did This As A Gift For My Wife. Took Me A Whole Year
#5
286,600 Stitches, 5 Years… And Done
simply.Taz 3 years ago
These type of very detailed, intricate designs are what I enjoy doing, as well!! You did an AMAZING job!!
Rachknits 3 years ago
It'll be from either Heaven and Earth Designs or Gecko Rouge
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Marie Dahme 3 years ago
The detail on this piece is absolutely incredible. Can I have this???? Please!!!! Lol
#6
Eden Serpent By Paradisestitch! It Took Forever But I'm So Happy With How It Turned Out!
the Return of Bruno 3 years ago
That's awfly perty for a picture of Satan. I mean, you specified it was the Eden serpent,... (And he has no legs, so you know it's after he was curse. Because, you know, his plan would have been less likely to work if he was ugly BEFORE offering the apple. )
#7
Frogs
#8
Does It Look Like Watercolor?
#9
My Mom Allowed Me To Post This On Her Behalf. This Is Officially Her Biggest Finished Project And I'm So Proud Of Her!
Katy McMouse 3 years ago
There are no words for that. That's some serious, unrelenting talent.
#10
My Finished Wonders Of The Night Sky Design (Pattern By Me). It's All As Nerdily Accurate As I Could Make It And Took A Loooong Time To Put Together!
#11
My Internet Password Is Long And Complicated. No Matter How Hard I Try, I Will Never Remember It. My Router Is Hard To Reach And My Kid Keeps Running Off With My Post-It Notes, So I Decided To Stitch A Qr Code To Hang On The Wall
#12
3 Years And 197,580 Stitches Later, She's Done!
Annette Easton 3 years ago
I really wanted to get this pattern, but just the pattern and not the kit. The company wouldn't sell it as just the pattern unfortunately. I love the design but want to change the colours in it.
#13
After A Year And A Half Of Work, I’ve Finally Finished My Very First Cross-Stitch!
Analyn Lahr 3 years ago
Your first one? You did that design as your FIRST one? You like a challenge don't you? Good work.
#14
Birthday Gift For My Mom, The Person Who First Got Me Into Cross-Stitch. We Love Watching Hummingbirds Together, So I Stitched One She Can Look At Whenever She Wants
#15
This Is A Pattern I Picked Up To Keep Myself Busy While My Other Material Arrived. Pattern Linked In Comments. Background I Added Myself
#16
I’ve Started Making A Cross Stitch Of Each Trip My Partner And I Go On Together. We Made A Special Deal - I Do The Stitch, He Makes The Frames!
#17
I'm Finally Done Live, Laugh, Loving Over Here!
#18
One Of My Largest Finishes Yet!!
PandaGoPanda 3 years ago
According to OP’s linked Reddit post, it’s a sampler called Twisted Rainbow Sampler that she had framed to put on the wall.
#19
Found This At A Church Rummage Sale! Part Of A $5 Per Bag Sale!
#20
At Last!! And I Can Finally Say Im Done With This Awesome Conversion Hehehe!
#21
Made For My Pigeon Obsessed Friend, Do You Think She'll Like It?
#22
How I Spent My Weekend
#23
Just A Recent Finished Project
#25
Going To Surprise My Wife With This Tonight. We Are Having Our First
#26
My Pokémon Epic 1-5 Is Back From The Framer!
Karen Startz Richardson 3 years ago
PLEASE tell us that "Waldo" is in here, somewhere 😂...This is AMAZING!
#27
My Cute Avocado Yoga!
#28
It's The First Time When I Tried Coaching Instead Of Backstitching And I Love The Result! Spent The Coldest Time Of The Winter Stiching This Dragon From Nadezhda Gavrilenkova
#29
I Don’t Know If This Game Is Universal But It Was The Best
#30
Blackwork Cat Pile
#31
I Just Realised I Never Shared This Completed Piece. Considering It Took Me About 15 Years To Complete I Figure It’s Worth A Share
#32
LOTR Stained Glass Piece For A Friend
#33
One Of My Latest Projects. What Do You Think?
#34
My Youngest Sibling Came Out As Trans, So I Made Them This
#35
Adhd Be Damned, I Did It!
#36
None Of My Friends Appreciate My Cross Stitch So Im Upset But I Finished This Frog In One Week
#37
Finally Finished! Rainbow Garden By Una Buena Pieza
#38
Present For A Friend Who Loves Hedgehogs! Pattern "Hedgehog" By Cutepatternsbymaria
MarcyParlomerNerdGirlsRock 3 years ago (edited)
I SEE LAP CACTUS HEDGEHOGGY, I UPVOTE. I HACK INTO SYSTEM AND UPVOTE TWENTY TIMES. I IS THE HEDGEHOG HACKER. :D
#39
Finally Finished Sewing Up My Wife’s Stocking Just In Time For Christmas!
#40
Finished My Japanese Pagoda Stitch!
#41
Just Finished My Second Cross Stitch Project! Took Me Two Years To Finish. It’s 46 X 61cm And Made With 90 Colors
#42
Finished The Next Bottle In The Series!
#43
Stitched A Friend's Save The Date As A Wedding Gift
#44
The Weasley House - Before And After Backstitch
#45
I Wasn't Able To Finish This In Time For The Launch, But Here's The James Webb Space Telescope's Primary Mirror Rendered In Blackwork!
#46
It’s Finally Finished! 8 Months Later
#47
My Take On Homer In The Bushes
#48
Seven Months And Three Countries Later, My Neon Sushi Bag Is Finally Done!
#49
Someone Here Suggested Me To Make Country Roads Cat, So Here It Is!
#50
Just Got This Done For A Friend. First Time Using Black Aida Also!
#51
It Took Me Over A Year, But I *finally* Finished My Cross Stitch Of The Solar System!!!
#52
I’m Not At All The Type To Brag, But It Has To Mean Something That I Keep Confusing The Back For The Front
#54
This Is My Favorite Cozy Holiday Stitch
#55
Baby Penguin Sliiiide
#56
Finished This Little Gem Tonight! Surely I Can’t Be The Only Person Thinking This…
#57
My Expression When Someone Tells Me That Men Shouldn't Cross Stitch (Self Drafted Pattern)
#58
Y'all Means All - Self Drafted
#59
After A Year, May I Present The Spirit Of The Kohaku River
#60
Cross Stitch On A Kitchen Strainer
#61
Just Finished This Delightful Piece A Day After The My Friend's Birthday Where It Was Suppost To Be A Present. Better Late Than Never. She'll Love It. Pattern By Gameoverstitches, Lightly Changed
#62
[fo] Blackwork Woodland Fox I've Designed
![[fo] Blackwork Woodland Fox I've Designed](https://www.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/638723932fc35_ri6ubyzkaxp81__700.jpg "[fo] Blackwork Woodland Fox I've Designed")
#64
Done After 5 Years! Pattern Made Using Kg-Chart With Tweaks Along The Way
#66
Entering A Fo In My First Country Fair This Weekend! Wish Me Luck!
#67
Made This For A Friend
#68
I'm In Covid Isolation, But At Least I Finished My Christmas Living Room In Time
#69
This Is What 200,000 Stitches Looks Like!
#70
I’ve Come To Brag!
#71
"It's Just A Little Blackwork," I Thought. "It'll Be A Quick Stitch." A Month Later... It's Finished! The Pattern Is My Own
#72
First Time Posting Here—i Just Had To Show Off The Glow In The Dark
Amanda Lawshe 3 years ago
Love it, I would’ve done only the panic part in glow in the dark thread
#73
Backstitching Isn't Exactly Popular In This Subreddit, But It Can Really Make A Difference
The Other Guest 3 years ago
Hey, I've done this pattern, too! The backstitching really does make or break the project. They've done a lovely job on this one.
#74
Bee Blackwork Pattern To Celebrate International Honey Bee Day
#75
A Gift I Made For My Newborn Niece
#76
Back By Popular Demand: Cross Stitching Ghost, All Filled In With Glow In The Dark Half Stitches!
Yoga Kitty 3 years ago
I like the pictures but my glow in the dark thread is incredibly stubborn and does not like to be stitched. Not as bad as metallics but a close second place...
#77
Finally Finished My First Full Coverage Piece! My Favorite Place
#78
My Third Ever Cross Stitch Project
#79
Finally Finished This Beauty!!
#80
A Hedgehog For My Mum's Spring Birthday
#81
50 Hours vs. 100 Hours. Pattern Underwater Kingdom By Riolis
#82
My Wife Stopped At This Point. We Now Eep At Each Other When There’s A Problem In The House
#84
And That's A Wrap. After Working On This For 1 Year And 5 Months It's Finally Finished With 400 Days Of Progress And 128,164 Stitches In Total. Now It's Time To Get This Bad Boy Framed And Hung On The Wall!
#85
370 Days Later I’m Finally Finished Catching Them All
#86
Finished My First Stitch After A Year-Long Break
#87
Burninate The Cross Stitch - Self Drafted
#88
Only The French Knot Mist Remains!!
#89
Here's A Little Game For You: There Are Two Letters That Are Slightly Smaller That I Didn't Bother To Fix. Go!
#90
Been Working On This One For 2months! We're Not In Autumn But I Still Vibe With It. Pattern By Mamawitchcrossstitch On Etsy
#91
Neon Cross Stitches! These Are Self-Drafted, And Were Really Fun To Design And Stitch
#92
Autumn In The Valley - Finally Finished This! Pattern Self-Drafted
#93
Cross Stitch Minecraft Bee
#94
Sieve Complete! My Self-Designed Chefalopod Is Headed To The Fair. Let's Hope The Judges Find Him Punny
#95
My Marshmallow Cat! With Some Color Subs To Make It More Reminiscent Of My Sweet Marshmallow Baby
#96
First Of The Christmas Presents Finished: A Denim Jacket With Cross-Stitched Foxes For My Sister
#97
Promised My Grandma I Would Stitch Her An Angel For Christmas. Boy, Is She In For A Biblical Surprise
#98
I Dyed The Fabric Using Turmeric. At Midnight. Because I Was Stressed. I Love It
#99
First Time Using Glow In The Dark Thread! Pattern By Lolacrowcrossstitch On Etsy
#100
Recently Had A Second-Trimester Miscarriage, Completed This In Honor Of The Little One. Pattern From Vladaxstitch On Etsy
#101
I Think My Neighbours Have Never Seen Me Before
#102
I Put All My Processes On Hold When I Saw These Agarics
#103
Showed My Boyfriend The Wonders Of Cross Stitch And Had To Show Off His First Project!
#104
I’ve Formed A Love/Hate Relationship With Blackwork
Old Roadie 3 years ago
That love hate thing? Me. At this point I'd rather be able to cross stitch than rebuild transmissions. Sewing is next level magic.
#105
Captain Merman With Bonus Before Backstitch Photo
#106
Eyeballed This Instead Of Making A Proper Pattern And Painted The Hoop. Very Happy With The Result!
#107
Fricken' Chuffed With How This Turned Out! Backstitching It Was Hell
#108
I Finally Finished It!
#109
After Two Years Of Cross Stitching, I Am Finally Ready To Start Back Stitching!
#110
Some Ginkgo Leaves For My First Larger Sized Project Since Picking Up Cross Stitching Last Year
#111
It Took Me 5 Years To Finish Lord Libidian's Epic Pokemon Cross Stitch Gen 1. But I Re-Picked All The Colors To Get A Better Match
Amanda Lawshe 3 years ago
I wish I had five years worth of patience to put into anything, this Is amazing
#112
Over-Educated Cat Loving Millennial Feminist
#115
Repetition Is Chaos
#117
Did A Quick Lavender Project! Planning On Making My Own Lavender Scent Bags With This Design
#118
Blackwork Honeycomb. Pattern By Peppermint Purple
#119
A Finish Just In Time For Valentine's Day!
#122
Finally, My Peaceful Pond Is Completed. I Want To Wash It Still To See If It’ll Brighten The Floss At All, I’ve Never Washed A Project Before
#123
Balloon Dog Finished!
#124
The Poison Chosen Especially To Kill Kuzko. Kuzko's Poison
The Other Guest 3 years ago
"A llama? He's supposed to be dead!" The stitching on this is so tidy, and I love the pattern.
#125
Stardew Valley Cross-Stitch I Made! Inspired By An Adorable Piece I Saw On This Sub A Couple Months Ago
#126
So Many Greens
#127
Pink Was My Obsession For March, But That Was So Last Month. April Is For Lavender Darling!
#128
Just Discovered That Black Aida Is A Thing, So I Had To Try Out A 1-Bit Pixel Art
#129
My First Cross Stitch Finally Finished And Framed!
#130
Moon Prism Power, Make Up!
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What do you think ?
VonBlade 3 years ago
Fantastic selection of some talented crafty people. The larger ones require ludicrous dedication and patience.
too indesicive to choose name 3 years ago
Oh no... Its happening again! I'm getting INSPIRED!!!!!
LesAnimaux 3 years ago
I used to do cross-stitching as a kid, this makes me want to start again!
Yoga Kitty 3 years ago
These are all great and yes, maybe around Christmas I will find the time to keep going with my largest ever project (A3 size, completely, densely stitched when finished) that has been pushed back to the end of the line several times by now. I have already completed more than half of it but somewhere along the way I got a bit frustrated and kind of lost my mojo. I will finish it someday, I know, but it might still take several years! There are always so many other things to be done... Also, a bit off the topic, but if you like the cross stitch patterns but do not want to spend your time with needle and thread why not try diamond painting? It is a bit as if cross stitching and paint by numbers had a love child - you put tiny "diamonds" on a sticky surface to create the picture following printed instructions. It is easy, very calming and pretty quick!
heather7d@yahoo.com 3 years ago
I love these crafty posts! There are some seriously skilled people out there. I’m not one of them so all you stitchers/knitters/woodworkers/etc. seriously impress me!
Lollipop Girl 3 years ago
Beautiful! I'm cross stitching a picture of my friends dog, who died in January, and it's hard to me to find motivation to continue with the project, but this helps!!
Dodo 3 years ago
Oh wow. I grew up doing cross-stitch, mostly samplers or random things. Ten years ago I realised I could actually stitch anything I wanted... which turned out to be quite expensive so I never did it. I did start a Doctor Who cross-stitch for the 50th anniversary, but never finished it. This is making me wanna dig it out again!
VonBlade 3 years ago
Fantastic selection of some talented crafty people. The larger ones require ludicrous dedication and patience.
too indesicive to choose name 3 years ago
Oh no... Its happening again! I'm getting INSPIRED!!!!!
LesAnimaux 3 years ago
I used to do cross-stitching as a kid, this makes me want to start again!
Yoga Kitty 3 years ago
These are all great and yes, maybe around Christmas I will find the time to keep going with my largest ever project (A3 size, completely, densely stitched when finished) that has been pushed back to the end of the line several times by now. I have already completed more than half of it but somewhere along the way I got a bit frustrated and kind of lost my mojo. I will finish it someday, I know, but it might still take several years! There are always so many other things to be done... Also, a bit off the topic, but if you like the cross stitch patterns but do not want to spend your time with needle and thread why not try diamond painting? It is a bit as if cross stitching and paint by numbers had a love child - you put tiny "diamonds" on a sticky surface to create the picture following printed instructions. It is easy, very calming and pretty quick!
heather7d@yahoo.com 3 years ago
I love these crafty posts! There are some seriously skilled people out there. I’m not one of them so all you stitchers/knitters/woodworkers/etc. seriously impress me!
Lollipop Girl 3 years ago
Beautiful! I'm cross stitching a picture of my friends dog, who died in January, and it's hard to me to find motivation to continue with the project, but this helps!!
Dodo 3 years ago
Oh wow. I grew up doing cross-stitch, mostly samplers or random things. Ten years ago I realised I could actually stitch anything I wanted... which turned out to be quite expensive so I never did it. I did start a Doctor Who cross-stitch for the 50th anniversary, but never finished it. This is making me wanna dig it out again!
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