By Cross Stitch Library · September 20, 2026
A wide-eyed baby fox bundled in a knit winter beanie on a snowy pine branch — a cozy woodland design with soft, big-eyed charm.
Your pattern is at the end of this page, right after the stitching guide below.
A round-eyed baby fox peers out from under an oversized knit beanie, perched on a frost-dusted pine branch. The near-square 173 x 174 grid keeps the whole scene tight and centered, so it stitches up as a clean, symmetrical square rather than a wide landscape piece.
Winter woodland pieces like this one work well as a nursery centerpiece, a gift for a new baby born in the colder months, or just a seasonal swap-in for your hoop display once the leaves are down. The knit beanie is the real character detail here — its cable-knit texture is built from four beige/gold shades layered over the fox’s orange fur, giving it a handmade look without ever leaving full cross stitch. It pairs naturally with our Hedgehog in a Knit Sweater if you want a matching set of bundled-up woodland animals. For more foxes, see the Red Fox Peeking Around a Door and the Little Fox Drawing with a Crayon, or our fox pattern round-up for a side-by-side comparison.
Twenty-five colors is on the higher end for this catalog, but the count is deceptive — DMC 310 (Black), 950 (Desert Sand - Light), and B5200 (Snow White) alone cover 6,010 of the 12,422 total stitches, and eleven of the twenty-five colors appear fewer than 100 times each, mostly as single-stitch highlight accents in the eyes and beanie trim. Stitch the three dominant colors first to establish the whole shape, then layer in the small accent colors last.
Because so many colors here appear in tiny quantities (five colors use fewer than 20 stitches total), pre-sort your floss into two groups before starting: the three workhorse colors you’ll use constantly, and everything else bagged and labeled by DMC number. It saves real time versus hunting through a jumbled pile every time the chart calls for DMC 3799 for a single stitch. For more on managing a large palette, see our reading a cross-stitch chart guide, or check out our pixel art cross-stitch guide for more designs built on a similar grid-based style.
Choose your paper size and color or black & white, then download the Baby Fox in a Winter Beanie PDF chart and thread list — free, no sign-up.
