The Stitch Pattern / Premade patterns
Strawberry
A ripe strawberry with a green crown and pale yellow seeds. Six colours, under an hour of stitching, and a good excuse to try single-stitch detail.
Open this pattern Free — chart, floss list and printable PDF
The chart
- 22 × 25 stitches, 320 of them worked, the other 230 left as bare fabric.
- 6 DMC colours, about 6 skeins in total.
- Whole cross stitches only — no backstitch, no fractional stitches, nothing to unpick at midnight.
Finished size
| Fabric | Inches | Centimetres |
|---|---|---|
| 11-count Aida | 2.0 × 2.3 in | 5 × 6 cm |
| 14-count Aida | 1.6 × 1.8 in | 4 × 5 cm |
| 16-count Aida | 1.4 × 1.6 in | 3 × 4 cm |
| 18-count Aida | 1.2 × 1.4 in | 3 × 4 cm |
Add three inches all round for hooping and framing: on 14-count that means cutting about 8 × 8 inches.
Floss list
| Colour | Name | Stitches | Skeins |
|---|---|---|---|
| DMC 349 | Coral, Dark | 184 | 1 |
| DMC 702 | Kelly Green | 60 | 1 |
| DMC 699 | Green | 34 | 1 |
| DMC 304 | Red, Medium | 27 | 1 |
| DMC 744 | Yellow, Pale | 11 | 1 |
| DMC B5200 | Snow White | 4 | 1 |
Skein counts include a 20% margin, because running out of a dye lot halfway through is the one mistake you cannot stitch your way out of.
Make it yours
Open the pattern and every square is editable: repaint any stitch, swap a shade for one of the other 455 on the DMC card, or erase parts back to bare fabric. The printable PDF is built from whatever is on screen when you download it.