How to do the Dutch Cross Stitch - Sarah's Hand Embroidery Tutorials

About the Dutch Cross Stitch

The Dutch Cross Stitch is an elongated Cross Stitch with a vertical stitch across it. This gives a change to the regular Cross Stitch or the Double Cross Stitch used for filling. The Dutch Cross can also be scattered around randomly for texturing the space. You can make it in various sizes to suit the requirement of the project.

How to do the Dutch Cross Stitch


Fig 1: Follow the alphabetical markings A-B-C-D, to make an elongated Cross Stitch. Now, come out from E to make the vertical stitch.	Fig 2: The vertical stitch is shorter in comparison to the lengths of the arms of the cross.

Fig 3: That’s it!	Fig 4: A cluster of this stitch will look like this.