Let’s sneak in this adorable Christmas Cross-stitch through the month of November to get our hearts warmed up for the holiday ahead! This month we’ll be stitching Candy Cane Coop from Stitching with the Housewives.

This quick, but precious 5-inch x 5-inch project combines many happy elements of Chickens, Gingerbread houses, Candy canes; it’s sure to make your stitches merry and bright!

The pattern is available at Fat Quarter Shop in PDF Pattern and Paper Pattern.

The thread colors are:

The fabric I’m using is 14 count Aida in Black.

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Pattern Updates!

I noticed a few things while studying the pattern that weren’t matching up to the cover image of the finished cross stitch

1. The symbol is missing from the top left chicken’s eye. This reads as blank, no stitch, but it should be a white stitch.
2. On the far right side of the “gutter” of the house, there is a cluster of 3 green stitches. One should be white to follow the pattern across the house.
3. The length of the large lollypops is different behind the left and right chickens. In the product image, it looks like the lollypop sticks are supposed to go all the way down, with a white stitch among the chicken’s feet. I chose to make them both shorter, floating one stitch above the chickens. I feel this gives more of the illusion they’re farther away, especially since the chicken sitting on top is smaller.