Here’s a nice little cross pattern that can be used for all kinds of ecclesiastical hand embroidery applications.

The design is suitable for embroidery on a stole, for the top of a linen pall, for a book cover, on a baptismal gown, for First Communion gifts – really for any place where you’d like to embroider a cross. Any type of interpretation would work – you could use colored silk and gold, white-on-white, black-on-white, colored cotton threads, and so forth. You could just outline the pattern, or you could fill different parts, either with solid color, or shading. So many possibilities!

Here’s a PDF of the pattern. It will print at about 6″ square.

Cross Pattern for Hand Embroidery

If you’re looking for religious embroidery designs, you can find other ecclesiastical embroidery patterns here on Needle ‘n Thread, right on the patterns page.