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A set of four cross-stitch patches sitting atop a blue microfibre blanket. Top: "alloaro" in allo-aro flag colours on purple aida with a fringed edge. Middle left: "less than 2" in aro flag colours with a peach background and buttonhole stitch edge. Middle right: "aro" in aro flag colours with a light blue background and a mottled buttonhole stitch edge. Bottom: "arospec" in aro-spec flag colours on white aida with a folded edge and white backstiching. The top and middle patches feature a motif of an arrow, with matching fletching, along the text's centre stroke.ALT
An alphabet cross stitch patch pattern striped in the colours of the green/light green/lemon/teal/dark teal aromantic spectrym flag. Pattern is set on a light grey grid. Symbols are outlined, indicating backstitch, in dark green. Symbols include a question mark, heart, upside-down heart, diamond, ace of spades, less-than sign, the number 2, an exclamation mark and a very, very stylised pineapple. An arrow design, with grey head and flag-coloured fletching, brackets each row of symbols.ALT

For my twenty-first pride patch tutorial, I have another five-stripe alphabet set–one designed to work with an optional intersecting arrow for extra in-your-face aromanticism. There’s even an additional set of a-spec symbols scaled to match the lettering plus a few text patterns to get you started in making your own.

(Yes, my pineapple attempt is highly questionable. It’s a hard thing to accomplish in a space only fifteen blocks high!)

Because tall letters leave a lot of background to fill, this tutorial also discusses alternate background and edging techniques to save a little time on sewing.

Pride Patch Tutorial: Aromantic Alphabet, Part Six
Are you an aromantic wanting pride-themed patch designs for five-stripe pride flags? Do you crave text patches that are obnoxiously aro? Thi
Aro Worlds
Photo of various handmade items: an assortment of aromantic-spectrum cross stitch patches, pendant necklaces with pony or seed beads in aro flag colours, a hoop art pieces with a plant pot in aro colours, a hoop pendants with the letter "a" in aro and abro colours and a Barbie doll with black hair and light brown skin wearing an assortment of clothes in aro colours.ALT

I thought the beginning of Aro Week a good time to mention that I have a Pride Crafts page on my website. If, like me, you plan on turning the world green, here you’ll find patterns, tutorials and posts detailing adventures in aro-themed cross-stitch, freehand embroidery, handsewn dolls’ clothes and basic jewellery making.

  • 19 Nov 2023

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A collection of cross-stitch patches in aromantic--green, light green, white, grey and black-and finished with hand-embroidered edges. Patches include hearts, rainbows, butterflies, moons, zigzags and the letter "A" along with the words "queer", "aro" and "aromantic".ALT
A collection of cross-stitch patches in arovague, quoiromantic, idemromantic and nebularomantic pride colours and finished with hand-embroidered edges. Patches include hearts, arrows and the letters "A" and "N" along with the words "quoi, wtf", "arovague" and "pride".ALT

I thought I might also show off some of my cross-stitch patches during @aggressivelyarospec’s Aggressively Arospectacular, especially my collection of quoi, nebula and vague patches (as an aro who floats about said trifecta of identities because comprehending attraction and my relationship to it is difficult).

I do have more: these are just the patches I have yet to attach to my backpack and jacket. It’s just so much less fun to sew my patches onto things than it is to sew the patches, so I have a huge backlog!

Three cross-stitched, embroidered patches with flag-stripe block text reading A cross-stitch pattern for A cross-stitch pattern for

Pride Month Patch Tutorial: Pronoun Text

This year I’ve created five cross-stitch patterns designed for use with a variety of LGBTQIA+ pride flags, including the trans, genderqueer, non-binary, agender and demigender flags.

Each pronoun pattern is available in three scale variants: he/him, she/her, they/them, it/its and ze/hir. With the use of my cross-stitch alphabets, however, they can be adapted and modified for any pronoun set expressible in the Roman alphabet possessing a three, four, five, six, seven, ten or twelve-striped flag.

This tutorial includes sixteen cross-stitch text charts/patterns plus a guide to adapting said patterns for other pronoun sets.

I have more free queer cross-stitch tutorials and patterns available, including “pride” text patches, flag stripe hearts and “queer” text patches designed for a-spec pride flags. Other LGBTQIA+ text patterns are available at my pattern gallery, for folks who want to go all out in declaring our existence.

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Pride Month Cross Stitch Patterns (and Pattern Master List)

I’ve again compiled some not-aromantic LGBTQIA+, queer and pride cross-stitch text patterns for Pride Month … including asexual, bisexual, bigender, genderqueer, intersex and non-binary text patterns! Plus three, four and six-stripe “queer” patterns so folks can stitch non-digital versions of my pixel text headers!

With all this going on, I thought it a good time to update my pattern and tutorial master post.

Some tutorials will work for–or can be adapted for–a wide variety of pride flags. Most aromantic text patterns can be adapted for other a-spectrum identity flags.

These pieces are designed as handsewn patches, pendants or keychains (depending on the materials used). Aida, other types of evenweave fabric or vinyl canvas/plastic mesh is best for cross-stitch. They may also be adapted for freehand embroidery on non-evenweave fabric (like quilting cotton, drill, homespun, canvas or denim) by tracing the letter outlines and using filling stitches for the stripe colours.

Beginners–especially if Australian–may find my materials post useful.

Patterns

These pages contain additional/extra patterns not included in the tutorials below.

Tutorials

Yeah, that’s a lot. Happy Pride Month, my fellow queers and stitchers!

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I’m working around injury to create a pronoun patch tutorial before Pride Month 2023 ends, but I thought reblogging my master post earlier in June might help folks who want or need to DIY their finery.

Additional tutorials and pattern gallery pages include:

Even though my alphabet sets are labelled “aro alphabet”, they will work with any pride flag of the designated stripe count!

I hope this helps give more folks the opportunity to display their pride–all the more important for those of us suffering increased rejection, erasure and hatred.

[Image description: a cross-stitched patch sitting atop a blue microfibre blanket. The patch features a green dragon with darker green wings, undersized compared to the dragon’s body, and a belly striped in yellow and gold. White splotches dapple the...

[Image description: a cross-stitched patch sitting atop a blue microfibre blanket. The patch features a green dragon with darker green wings, undersized compared to the dragon’s body, and a belly striped in yellow and gold. White splotches dapple the dragon’s back and yellow spikes trim its spine and tail. The patch is stitched on white aida and edged with a double row of white blanket stitch, resembling a lace trim.]

As I’m deep in the middle of last-minute proofreading, today’s Aro Week post is something small, cheerful and slightly goofy: a little allo-aro dragon.

Because I wanted to keep to pride colours, the darker green stitches for eyes, nostril and lips don’t stand out against the lighter green. I should have stitched them in black as per the chart. I do like how boxing in the stitches with squareish outlining adds to the goofiness, though; this little guy belongs in a vintage video game!

This design is by Durene Jones and was published in issue 321 of the UK magazine The World of Cross Stitching. This issue includes a 41-pattern set of fantasy and mythology-themed motif patterns (great for patches) with a colour palette making heavy use of greens, yellows, white, grey and black. Perfect for aros who like fairy tales!

Pride Patch Tutorial: Aromantic Alphabet, Part Five

Let’s continue Aro Week with another alphabet, again with wide letters great for larger objects, to accompany my seven-stripe block text patterns for making cross-stitched pride patches. Plus patterns for the words “aromantic”, “asexual”, “aplatonic” and other a-spectrum identities!

This block-style alphabet can be used to make your own custom text patches for horizontally-striped flags with seven or fourteen even stripes. I used this alphabet for my arovague patch (above) by reducing the width of the centre grey stripe. Other flags may need adjusting if you wish to use this alphabet!

Folks after patterns designed for three, four, five, six, ten and twelve-stripe pride flags should check out my Aro Alphabet posts and my complete pride patch gallery. I also have a patch tutorial master page covering a variety of aromantic and pride-themed designs, including arrows, aces of spades and hearts.

(The “aaa” patch uses my agender allo-aro pride flag but can of course be made using the many seven-stripe agender aro-ace flags.)

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Pride Patch Tutorial: Aromantic Alphabet, Part Four

I’m beginning Aro Week with a complete alphabet, with wide letters great for larger objects, to accompany my many four-stripe block text patterns for making cross-stitched pride patches. Plus patterns for the words “aromantic”, “asexual”, “alterous” and “nope” … and even “wtf” for my fellow quoi folks!

This block-style alphabet, with the accompanying conversion chart, can be used to make your own custom text patches for horizontally-striped flags with three, four, six and twelve stripes.

Folks after patterns suitable for five and ten-stripe pride flags should check out my other Aro Alphabet posts and my complete pride patch gallery. I also have a patch tutorial master page covering a variety of aromantic and pride-themed designs, including arrows, aces of spades and hearts.

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For the first day of @aggressivelyarospec​‘s #aggressivelyarospectacular 2022 week-long event, I’m sharing the results of two commercial cross-stitch kits that are already accidentally pride-themed! There’s no need to find or buy additional floss to make an almost-perfect allo-aro pride piece: I just added a skein of cream for the buttonhole stitch edging to turn it into a patch. And it’s a pineapple!

For more thoughts on these Beutron mini kits (spoiler: they’re very good, and allo-aros, arofluxes and abros interested in cross-stitch should get them), please check out my post at aroworlds.com.

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  • 21 Oct 2022

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[image description: two square cross-stitched pride flag patches sitting on a blue microfibre blanket. The left-hand patch shows the arovague flag, with narrower dark green and light green stripes mirrored on either side of a thick grey centre...

[image description: two square cross-stitched pride flag patches sitting on a blue microfibre blanket. The left-hand patch shows the arovague flag, with narrower dark green and light green stripes mirrored on either side of a thick grey centre stripe, finished in a magenta border. The right-hand patch shows the nebularomantic flag, with gradient maroon/pinks fading into a centre white stripe and then into gradient blues/navy. It’s finished with a variegated/gradient purple border.]

I found an old photo of two square pride patches: arovague and nebularomantic. They’re not accurate to the actual flags, as I like to create arovague variants with wider green stripes for better visibility/contrast and I didn’t have perfect blue matches for the nebularomantic flag, but I think they’re close enough!

(I’ve gotten so much better at edging my patches! Pressing them with an iron–or the hair straightener that I actually use, because I’m too lazy to get out the ironing board–helps, too, but I didn’t know that back then.)

Both of these patches ended up on my pride patch jacket … which is still a work in progress. I swear that I will finish it, one day…

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