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.
Aro Arrow Patch Patterns – Aroflex
The aroflex aro arrow patterns fit a rectangle 63 stitches wide and 17 stitches high. Assuming a three stitch border, as for my other patches, this means you’ll want a 66 x 20 block swatch plus any excess (if used unmodified).
Heart Patch Pattern – Apothi and Caed
The 20 block apothi and caed 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 a 24 x 23 block swatch plus any excess (if used unmodified).
Because these patches are more easily sewn upside down and then reversed, the apothi pattern (right) is oriented to match. To stitch as an upside-down heart, reverse the red and green stripes (so that green, instead of red as shown, is stitched at the heart’s point).
The caed heart (left) can only be stitched as an upside-down heart as shown above; it cannot be reversed.
(I didn’t think enough of the flag design was visible/recognisable on a conventionally-oriented heart, so a solely upside-down version was my best alternative in preserving the flag’s distinctness.)
Requies Patch Pattern – Ten Block, Upper Case
The five-stripe “requies” pattern fits a rectangle 54 stitches wide and 14 stitches high. Assuming a three stitch border, as for my other patches, this means you’ll want a 57 x 17 block swatch plus any excess (if used unmodified).
Vague Aro-Ace Patch Pattern – Ten Block, Lower Case
The five-stripe vague “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).
The “requies” pattern can be merged with my five-stripe upper-case “aromantic” pattern to create “requiesromantic”.
The combined vague “aroace” pattern is based on this image series which 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.
Aro Worlds 