Patterns

A soccer cross stitch bundle: the Beautiful Game centre design plus four flag map charts you choose yourself. Stitch the teams you're following, your own heritage, or the countries you'll be cheering this year. Whatever you call it, soccer or football, the four countries...

Stitch the Greek mainland and islands in tiny cross stitch, the country shape filled with the bright blue and white stripes of the Greek flag and the small cross in the upper hoist. A small finish for stitchers planning Athens, Santorini, or Crete trips,...

Australia in tiny cross stitch, the country outline filled with the blue, red, and white of the national flag, the Union Jack tucked into the upper hoist and the stars stitched across the field. A small finish that suits anyone with a connection to...

Chunky retro backstitch alphabet for bold monograms, modern samplers, and projects that want a confident vintage feel. Upper case A-Z and numbers 0-9, 3 stitches high. Angular geometric letters with clean lines and strong shapes. Confident enough to carry a monogram on its own,...

Mini backstitch alphabet for fitting small text into cross stitch projects without taking up much space. Upper case A-Z and numbers 0-9, just one stitch high. The smallest backstitch alphabet we make. Quick to stitch and easy to tuck into anything, big or small....

Liberia cross stitch pattern, eleven red and white stripes with a single white star on deep blue, filling a country shape that steps down the West African coast. The flag is modelled on the Stars and Stripes, one star for one country where the...

Eswatini cross stitch pattern, known as Swaziland until 2018 and still called that by plenty of people. The country outline is banded in blue, yellow and crimson, with the black and white Nguni shield and its two spears laid across the centre. Five shades...

Lesotho cross stitch pattern, a rough diamond of a country shape banded in blue, white and green, with the black mokorotlo, the Basotho conical hat, at the centre. The country name is stitched in white across the blue. Four shades and just over eleven...

Bhutan cross stitch pattern, the country's wide shape split on the diagonal: saffron yellow above, orange-red below, with the white band running between them where the dragon sits on the flag. The country name is stitched into the red at the eastern end. Four...

Kiribati cross stitch pattern, the flag stretched along a diagonal chain of atolls: red and gold across the upper islands, blue and white through the lower ones, with a scatter of single-stitch islands below. Thirty-three islands, most of them barely above the waterline. Five...

Mozambique cross stitch pattern, five colours worked into a tall narrow shape: green across the north, white and black bands below it, the broad red panel carrying its yellow star, and yellow at the southern tip. The country name runs in backstitch along the...

Malawi cross stitch pattern, one of the narrowest shapes in the series: black at the top with the red rising sun, a red band across the middle, green below. Lake Malawi takes up so much of the country's eastern side that what's left reads...

Namibia cross stitch pattern, a white-bordered red diagonal running corner to corner, blue above with the golden sun, green below, and the thin finger of the Caprivi Strip reaching east at the top. The country name is stitched in white across the green. Full...

Botswana cross stitch pattern in three shades only: pale blue above and below a black band edged in white, filling a country shape that steps down the east and narrows to a point. The country name sits in backstitch across the upper blue. Full...

Uganda cross stitch pattern, six bands of black, yellow and red running across the country outline, with the grey crowned crane standing in its white circle at the centre. The country name sits in backstitch across the top yellow band. Full cross stitch throughout,...

Zimbabwe cross stitch pattern, the country's outline carrying the flag so that the whole western third sits white with the red star, and the seven bands of green, yellow, red and black run across the east. The country name is stitched underneath in backstitch....

Guam cross stitch pattern, the island's long narrow shape carrying the deep blue flag with its red border, and the territory seal set at the southern end. The seal holds a proa under sail on Hagåtña Bay, a palm leaning over the beach, and...

Zambia cross stitch pattern, the country's wide wing-shaped outline filled with the green field and the red, black and orange stripe block of the flag. Zambia wraps around the Zambezi that gave it its name, sitting at the top of Southern Africa with the...

A Tanzania cross stitch pattern from our Tiny Little Countries collection: the country's outline crossed corner to corner by the flag's black band with its golden edges, green above for the land and blue below for the Indian Ocean. Four DMC colours, 763 stitches....

A Madagascar cross stitch pattern from our Tiny Little Countries collection: the world's fourth-largest island running long and narrow down the chart, filled with the white, red, and green of the Malagasy flag. Four DMC colours, 496 stitches. Madagascar split from every other landmass...

A Bahrain cross stitch pattern from our Tiny Little Countries collection: a small island in the flag's red and white, split by the five-point zigzag that only Bahrain and Qatar carry. Three DMC colours, 414 stitches. The five points on Bahrain's flag stand for...

<p>A Kuwait cross stitch pattern from our <a href="https://shop.lostincrossstitch.com/collections/tiny-little-countries" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tiny Little Countries collection</a>: the country's outline filled with the green, white, and red of the flag, the black trapezoid cutting in from the border, and the name stitched across. Four DMC colours, 915...

An Oman cross stitch pattern from our Tiny Little Countries collection: the country's coastal sweep filled with the red, white, and green of the flag, with the name stitched alongside. Four DMC colours, 564 stitches. Oman is known for frankincense groves, turtle beaches, and...