Swallow Pattern

Discover the beauty of variegated thread with our quick and easy cross stitch patterns. Each design is crafted to showcase the natural color variations in DMC’s variegated embroidery floss—where shades shift seamlessly along a single strand to create soft gradients, rich contrast, or striking color changes without ever switching threads. These patterns are ideal for highlighting the visual effect of variegated thread, allowing you to add depth and interest to your stitching with minimal effort. Perfect for beginners or experienced stitchers looking for a vibrant, relaxing project, every design ensures the thread does the work—bringing your stitches to life with subtle color transitions. Whether you're creating gifts, cards, or framed mini pieces, our patterns offer a creative and satisfying way to use up your favorite variegated skeins. Pattern Details: Design Area: Approximately 150 x 150 stitches Actual Number of Cross Stitches: 4346 Fabric: 14 Count Aida (recommended) Stitch Types: Full cross stitches only (no backstitching or half stitches) Colors Required: 1 DMC Color Variation of your Choice. What's Included: PDF Black & white chart (please substitute the DMC 310 with any DMC color variation (or any brand) of your choice. PDF optimized for Pattern Keeper SVG Pattern files THE TOP CROSS STITCH TERMS YOU NEED TO KNOW Aida – the most popular fabric to use for cross stitch with brands including DMC, Zweigart and Charles Craft. Threads are woven evenly to form squares and the most popular counts are 14 and 16 (see Count below) Back Stitch – a method of stitching to outline a cross stitch piece, usually in a dark colour. Beads – can be stitched onto a project to add depth, colour and detail. Blending – (also called Tweeding) using two or more colours of thread (usually one strand of each) in the same needle at the same time to blend the colours together when stitching. Confetti – single stitches of different colours looking like little confetti being thrown! Chart – the cross stitch pattern to work from when stitching. Count – the number of holes per inch. Often you will hear ’14 count’ meaning 14 holes (or squares) in one inch of the fabric. Counted Cross Stitch – the fabric is plain and you use a printed or digital pattern as a guide to help you place each stitch. DMC – one of the most popular brands of thread (or floss) used for embroidery and cross stitch. It comes in hundreds of different colours and effects.