As I post weekly pride patch patterns on Patreon, here’s a monthly round-up for non-subscribers!
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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.
Apothi Aro-Ace Patch Pattern – Ten Block, Upper Case
The five-stripe apothi “aroace” pattern fits a rectangle 61 stitches wide and 14 stitches high. Assuming a three stitch border, as for my other patches, this means you’ll want a 64 x 17 block swatch plus any excess (if used unmodified).
Arojump Patch Pattern – Ten Block, Upper Case
The five-stripe “arojump” pattern fits a rectangle 60 stitches wide and 14 stitches high. Assuming a three stitch border, as for my other patches, this means you’ll want a 63 x 17 block swatch plus any excess (if used unmodified).
Heart Patch Pattern – Demi, Three and Four Stripe
The twenty-block demi 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. When rotated point downwards, the black triangles will show in the correct position as per their respective flags. If sewing upside-down demi heart patches, so that the flag’s topmost stripe colour begins at the base of the heart, remember to horizontally flip the triangles so they cover the patch’s left-hand side.
Heart Patch Pattern – Three and Five Stripe
The fifteen-block heart patterns fit a rectangle 17 stitches wide and 15 stitches high. Assuming a three stitch border, as for my other patches, this means you’ll want an 20 x 19 block swatch plus any excess (if used unmodified).
Because these patches are more easily sewn upside down, the patterns are oriented to match.
The “arojump” pattern uses letters from my five-stripe block alphabet and can serve as a base for creating other five and ten-stripe custom text patterns.
The combined apothi “aroace” pattern is based on this image series and can be recreated with many five-stripe a-spectrum flags (a la flux, lith, grey, recip or abro) using my ten block pixel “aroace” pattern. Alternatively, individual apoithi-styled “aro” and “ace” patterns can be made by referencing my ten-block pixel “aro” pattern for the final stitch count.
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