As I post weekly pride patch patterns on Patreon, here’s a monthly round-up for non-subscribers!
Folks who need help with materials, stitching, finishing or attaching patches should check out my tutorial master page.
Previous patterns are available at my pattern gallery.
Notes on Pattern Structure
Full coloured blocks indicate a full cross stitch. Letter outlines indicate backstitch.
Blocks divided on the diagonal by a line of backstitch, each half a different colour, indicate quarter stitches. Please see my first text tutorial and my pride text tutorial for more information on backstitching outlines and placing quarter/fractional stitches.
Space for edging your patch is not shown in the patterns below. You’ll need to allow additional blocks for this when cutting your swatch, depending on how narrow or thick you like your edges.
Allo-Aro and Aro-Allo Patch Patterns – Ten Block, Lower Case
The five-stripe “alloaro” and “aroallo” patterns fit a rectangle 69 stitches wide and 14 stitches high. Assuming a three stitch border, as for my other patches, this means you’ll want a 72 x 17 block swatch plus any excess (if used unmodified)
Apl-Aro-Ace Patch Pattern – Twelve Block, Upper Case
The six-stripe “aplaroace” pattern fits a rectangle 101 stitches wide and 16 stitches high. Assuming a three stitch border, as for my other patches, this means you’ll want a 104 x 19 block swatch plus any excess (if used unmodified).
This pattern is best stitched on 18-count aida. For more tips on stitching longer-word patches, please see my Pride Month Patch Pattern post.
Arospec Patch Pattern – Fourteen Block, Upper Case
The seven-stripe “arospec” pattern fits a rectangle 79 stitches wide and 18 stitches high. Assuming a three stitch border, as for my other patches, this means you’ll want a 82 x 21 block swatch plus any excess (if used unmodified).
Heart Patch Pattern – Four, Five and Ten Stripe
The twenty-block heart patterns fit a rectangle 21 stitches wide and 20 stitches high. Assuming a three stitch border, as for my other patches, this means you’ll want an 24 x 23 block swatch plus any excess (if used unmodified).
Because these patches are more easily sewn upside down, the patterns are oriented to match.
Zigzag Flag Patch Pattern – Eight Stripe
The eight-stripe zigzag flag patches fit a rectangle 25 stitches wide and 18 stitches high. Assuming a three stitch border, as for my other patches, this means you’ll want an 28 x 21 block swatch plus any excess (if used unmodified).
The left-hand variant uses a quoiromantic quoisexual (or quoiro-quoix) flag with a black stripe at the top and bottom of the flag. This results in the additional line of black where the top black line meets the repeated sections of the black bottom line (and the bottom black line meets the repeated sections of the top black line).
This effect will occur with any flag that uses the same colour for both its topmost and bottommost stripes.
The “alloaro” and “aroallo” patterns use letters from my five-stripe pixel alphabet and can serve as a base for creating other five and ten-stripe custom text patterns.
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