I’ve been sharing a lot of specific sets of St. Patrick’s Day cross stitch patterns lately (to recap, there have been shamrocks and leprechauns and funny St. Patrick’s Day cross stitch patterns). This collection is full of patterns that I found really interesting for various reasons but don’t have a good way to classify them.
Thus, they are just unique St. Patrick’s Day cross stitch patterns.
If you’re looking for a bit of a challenge, something that doesn’t look like all the other St. Patrick’s Day patterns out there, try these on for size.
I thought this kaleidoscope cross stitch pattern from crossstitch.com was interesting. It starts out with regular shamrocks at the corners, but in the center it is a bunch of stars in different shades of green, as if you’d twisted a picture of shamrocks in a kaleidoscope.
The pattern uses 30 colors and is 151 by 155 stitches, or about 10.8 by 11.1 inches when stitched on 14 count fabric. To make it a little easier on yourself but still cool looking, you could try stitching the stars with variegated thread instead of changing colors so often.
If you like the look of a sampler with repeating patterns, this one with an Irish twist might be of interest to you. This pattern from Sam X Stitch on Etsy features bands of repeating patterns including shamrocks, pots of gold and glasses of beer (which you could make green if you want to be cheeky).
It uses nine colors and the design area is 139 stitches square. It’s almost 10 inches when stitched on 14 count fabric.
How about some pretty Irish quilt blocks? These can be stitched as a sampler as shown or you can make them as individual patterns. The blocks include
- Shamrocks
- Claddagh
- Blarney stone
- St. Patrick
- Celtic cross
- Irish banner
- Irish harp strings
- Rainbow’s end
- Saint Brigid
The pattern was designed by David Jackson and is available on Etsy from Celtic Craft Shop US.
