We printed off a free piece of graph paper from HERE. It is best if your graph paper matches your waste canvas. For instance, we were working with 10 count waste canvas, so we used 10 lines per inch on our graph paper. You will have to change the GRID SPACING number to 10… like in the picture below.
We started with the dinos head and began shading in the boxes. Use a pencil, there is lots of erasing 🙂 We created the pattern one vertical line at a time from left to right until we competed the dino. Remember, you can not use half boxes with waste canvas! After each vertical line, we shaded the original dino so we could keep track of where we were. There is a lot of guess work involved in this part. Just use your best judgment. Up can always erase later!
Notice the original dinos front leg. That diagonal line wasn’t working. So we switched it up!
My mom’s monster stitched:
Annie and I made the dino. She went home and did all of these herself! She’s nice and shared her work with us. Double click, save to the desktop, and print.
Cross stitch to a onesie or a bib and bam… baby gifts! What is your favorite design? Are you cross stitcher? A needle pointer? I’d love to hear…
Thanks for this- I have tried to make some cross stitch patterns in the past but get frustrated in the process. This should be very helpful. I love cross stitch- both the big designs and the small ones too.
That is crazy about the Christmas Stockings!! I have made one for myself and my husband so far- they are fun to put up every year!
I cross-stitched eons ago and then got involved with quilting. I am wanting to go back into cross-stitching and have a project I need to finish up! 🙂
I've never done cross stitching before but this looks fun!
Felicitaciones Congratulations. Very well your work. I want to start cross stitching. Thanks your very much.
I always wondered how to do this – thanks for the tutorial. And thanks for the site for the graph paper. After Christmas, I’ll have to get started on this!
Happy you found it useful, Donna!