By Cross Stitch Library · September 20, 2026
A small hooded druid with a Celtic-knot-patterned cloak, holding a staff with a tiny skull charm — a whimsical fantasy design with big expressive eyes.
Your pattern is at the end of this page, right after the stitching guide below.
A small hooded figure smiles out from beneath a deep cowl covered in interlocking Celtic-knot embroidery, gripping a gnarled wooden staff hung with a tiny skull charm. Petals and Celtic triskele symbols drift in the background, softening what could otherwise read as a purely spooky character.
This one leans into cute-fantasy rather than horror — the druid’s oversized eyes and gentle smile keep it firmly whimsical despite the skull charm and dark hood. It suits anyone into folklore, D&D-adjacent fantasy decor, or Celtic heritage pieces, and works well as a year-round fantasy accent rather than a seasonal-only display. It pairs naturally with our Fawn Shaman with Staff and Woodland Badger Wizard as a trio of small forest spellcasters.
DMC 310 (Black) and 841 (Beige Brown - Light) are essentially tied as the dominant colors here, at 6,163 and 6,160 stitches respectively — together over 45% of the whole 26,769-stitch design. The knotwork detailing across the cloak’s hood is the trickiest section: it’s fine, repeating linework rather than a large fill area, so miscounting even a few stitches into the pattern will visibly break the knot’s symmetry by the time you reach the hood’s edge.
Count out and mark the hood’s knotwork section on your chart in quarters before starting it, the same way you’d approach a circular wreath design — this pattern’s knotting isn’t radially symmetric like a true Celtic knot border, but treating it as a series of smaller checkable sections still catches count drift early instead of at the very end. See our reading a cross-stitch chart guide for more on tracking dense repeating linework, or browse more fantasy woodland patterns to round out a themed collection.
Choose your paper size and color or black & white, then download the The Wee Celtic Druid PDF chart and thread list — free, no sign-up.
