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r/CrossStitch

Cross Stitch

r/CrossStitch is a safe-for-work community on Reddit, ranked #938 on SubMouse with 1,134,621 subscribers and about 55 new posts a day.

Rank (SFW)#938
Subscribers1.1M
Growth since Nov 2+773
Posts per day55
Posts all time262.9K
CreatedApr 2010
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About r/CrossStitch

In its own words:

Cross Stitch - a home for stitchers, finished objects (FOs), works-in-progress (WIPs), patterns, and more!

Community guide

r/CrossStitch (#938, about 1.2 million) is home for cross-stitch and blackwork—FOs, WIPs, patterns talk—with bans on sharing pattern photos and a kindness-first culture.

What belongs

Cross-stitch/blackwork only (about 55 posts/day). Rules: be kind; read FAQ first; don’t request/share pattern photos; credit pattern source on FOs; no blog/shop OP links; no bots.

Versus general embroidery

Embroidery spans many needle arts. CrossStitch narrows to counted cross-stitch and blackwork.

Practical pointers

Tag FOs with pattern source; never post pattern photo scans.

The community was created on Apr 28, 2010, which makes it 16 years old. Since Nov 2, 2026, it has gained 773 subscribers (+0.07%). It sits just behind r/woooosh (#937) and ahead of r/darksouls (#939) in our ranking.

What sets r/CrossStitch apart

For its size it is unusually busy: about 48.4 new posts a day per million members, more than 84% of the Top 100. Its rhythm is strongly tied to time zones: the busiest hour (18:00 UTC) sees about 6.8× as many posts as the quietest (03:00 UTC).

Subscriber growth

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Between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 9, 2026, r/CrossStitch went up from 1,129,069 to 1,134,621 subscribers (+5.6K, +0.49%). That is about 109 new members per day. The chart shows 10 weekly subscriber counts.

Top posts on r/CrossStitch this week

The most upvoted posts of the past seven days, in the order Reddit ranks them (collected Nov 8, 2026).

  1. [FO] Help my cow is being abducted by aliens!!u/Dangerous-Educator40 · Nov 7 · gallery
  2. [FO] fun little timelapseu/lavagirl8 · Nov 1 · video
  3. [PIC] Spotted in a tiny English village: a crossstitch memorial to those from the village who died in World War 1u/LexiaStark · Nov 5 · gallery
  4. [FO] Finally finished my WIPu/Smooth_Compote5665 · Nov 7 · image
  5. [WIP] Halfway done with the epic Pokémon cross stitch!u/_norwegian_wood_ · Nov 2 · image
  6. [FO]u/AmbitiousAd1984 · Nov 3 · gallery
  7. [FO] Sick in bed, but at least I finished this pattern with the help of my assistantsu/baredoim · Nov 4 · gallery
  8. [FO] SHES DONE!u/Ok-Community-7700 · Nov 7 · gallery
  9. [FO] fancy peacocku/leaping_through_time · Nov 4 · gallery
  10. [FO] Amaze amaze amaze- I cross-stitched the Project Hail Mary spacewalk sceneu/gmatom · Nov 4 · gallery

All-time top posts

The highest-ranked posts in the history of r/CrossStitch, from 2017 to 2026, ranked by Reddit.

  1. [PIC] Left this nearly finished piece alone for two seconds and my cat knocked my coffee on it….u/Particular_Tip_799 · Sep 2, 2025 · image
  2. [FO] My mom cross-stitched my baby's ultrasoundu/Conscious_Credit3858 · Feb 18, 2025 · image
  3. [FO] So proud of this one!u/Concert13 · Jul 31, 2026 · gallery
  4. [SELF-PROMO] Kuzco’s Poisonu/Eyemeow · Aug 15, 2025 · image
  5. [FO] My 8 year old daughter painted me a template. 🥰🥰u/Seelenfrieda123 · Jul 6, 2025 · gallery
  6. [FO] I just started a new job where I (Annie) sit between an Ann and an Anna. So I self-drafted a direction signu/AnneeDroid · Nov 2, 2020 · image
  7. [FO] Help my cow is being abducted by aliens!!u/Dangerous-Educator40 · Nov 7, 2026 · gallery
  8. [FO] Literally took blood and tears, but I am very proud of my first projectu/Derpazor1 · Nov 4, 2017 · 8,057 points · 171 comments · image
  9. [PIC] My mum made me this cake for my 30th birthday!u/marthmalloww · May 25, 2025 · image
  10. [SHOP] I can HEAR this design every time I look at it...u/screamingheartstitch · Mar 15, 2025 · image

What r/CrossStitch talks about

Looking at the titles of 352 recent posts (Oct 29–Nov 5), the words that come up most are “chat”, “wip”, “stitch”, “cross” and “pattern”. Other frequent themes are project, help, finished, stitching, pic and patterns. Recurring phrases include “cross stitch”, “chat help”, “chat looking” and “finished seasons”. By format, 49% are galleries, 29% are images and 20% are text posts.

  • chat 112
  • wip 60
  • stitch 31
  • cross 28
  • pattern 26
  • project 21
  • help 21
  • finished 18
  • stitching 14
  • pic 14
  • patterns 13
  • christmas 9
  • halloween 8
  • self-promo 8
  • looking 8
  • happy 6
  • backstitch 5
  • cross-stitch 5

Popular post flairs: FO (148), CHAT (112), WIP (59), PIC (15), SELF-PROMO (8), PATTERN (4).

Activity and best time to post

r/CrossStitch gets about 55 new posts a day. The public archive holds 262,911 posts and 2,368,739 comments in total, about 9.0 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Wednesday (58 posts) and the quietest was Sunday (40). Posting peaks around 18:00 UTC and is lowest around 03:00 UTC.

00: 150001: 902: 1003: 40304: 805: 506: 80607: 608: 609: 140910: 1311: 1312: 131213: 1914: 1915: 231516: 2417: 1818: 271819: 2220: 2021: 172122: 1623: 20
Posts per hour of the day, UTC, Oct 29, 2026 – Nov 4, 2026
Galleries 49%Images 29%Text posts 20%Videos 1%

Rules of r/CrossStitch

The moderators of r/CrossStitch list 7 rules. In short:

  1. Be supportive, welcoming, and kind.
  2. Read FAQ & How To before posting
  3. Don't request, share, or post photos of patterns
  4. Include pattern source with FO tag
  5. Only cross-stitch and blackwork are allowed.
  6. Do not make an original post linking to your blog/shop.
  7. No bots

How to join

Open reddit.com/r/CrossStitch and press “Join”. Read the community rules in the sidebar before you post: every subreddit is run by its own volunteer moderators.

Frequently asked questions

How big is r/CrossStitch?

r/CrossStitch has 1,134,621 subscribers (Nov 9, 2026), which makes it the #938 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 5,552 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 9, 2026.

When was r/CrossStitch created?

r/CrossStitch was created on Apr 28, 2010, so it has been around for 16 years.

Is r/CrossStitch still active?

Yes. r/CrossStitch gets about 55 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 262,911 posts and 2,368,739 comments. In a sample of 352 recent posts we counted 303 different authors.

What is the best time to post in r/CrossStitch?

Based on post counts from Oct 29, 2026 to Nov 4, 2026, the busiest day was Wednesday and the quietest Sunday, and most posts arrive around 18:00 UTC, with the fewest around 03:00 UTC. More posts also means more competition, so a quieter hour can help a post get noticed.

What kind of posts are on r/CrossStitch?

The community describes itself as: “Cross Stitch - a home for stitchers, finished objects (FOs), works-in-progress (WIPs), patterns, and more!” Recent post titles often mention chat, wip, stitch, cross and pattern. Most posts are galleries (49%).

Is r/CrossStitch SFW?

Yes. Reddit does not mark r/CrossStitch as an 18+ (NSFW) community. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.

What are the rules of r/CrossStitch?

Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/CrossStitch accepts both text and link posts, with images, videos, galleries and polls enabled. It has 7 posted rules, starting with: “Be supportive, welcoming, and kind.”; “Read FAQ & How To before posting”; “Don't request, share, or post photos of patterns”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.

Stats from public data (data updated Nov 9, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Nov 6, 2026; top posts from Reddit’s public feeds). Point and comment counts are archive snapshots and can be lower than on Reddit today. SubMouse is an independent directory and is not affiliated with Reddit or the moderators of r/CrossStitch.

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