By Cross Stitch Library · October 10, 2026
A lone gray wolf among stylized pine trees in lavender, sage and navy — a modern, minimalist cross-stitch with just 7 colors and bold, flat shapes.
Your pattern is at the end of this page, right after the stitching guide below.
No outlines, no shading — just flat triangles of lavender, sage and navy standing in for a forest, and a blue-gray wolf pausing between the trunks.
This is the modern, graphic piece in the batch, closer to a screen print than an illustration. The trees are split down the middle into two tones, which gives the forest depth without any shading at all. It suits a minimalist or Scandinavian-style room where a cute, outlined character piece would look out of place, and it’s a good choice for anyone who wants a wolf without the howling-at-the-moon cliché. At 12.9“ x 12.7“ on 14-count it’s square, which makes framing straightforward.
Only 7 colors, and the smallest of them, 30 Blueberry Medium Light, still covers 902 stitches — there are no single-stitch details anywhere. That makes the chart very easy to read. It’s rated Intermediate only for its length: 17,408 stitches in large flat blocks. If you want a big project you can stitch in front of the TV without constantly checking the chart, this is it.
Large flat areas show uneven tension more than detailed ones do, so keep every top stitch crossing the same direction — on a 3,688-stitch block of 932 Antique Blue Light, a few crosses going the wrong way catch the light and show. Stitch each tree in two passes, one per half, and count the dividing line carefully: the split down the center is what makes the trees read as three-dimensional. Since there are only 7 colors, you can keep all of them threaded on separate needles and avoid ending off at every color change. It’s the pattern we suggest as a first big project in our guide to planning a large cross-stitch project.
Choose your paper size and color or black & white, then download the Wolf in a Pastel Forest PDF chart and thread list — free, no sign-up.
