Valentines day is the traditional day to express your love for each other. Celebrate this spirit of love by sending a valentine, giving candy or other gifts.

Stitching Cards Border 1: Valentine hearts pattern

Stitching Cards Valentine Hearts pattern

Stitching Cards Valentine Beads pattern

Saint Patrick’s Day celebrates Saint Patrick (386-493), the patron saint of Ireland. It is the national holiday of Ireland and celebrated worldwide by Irish people and those honoring the traditions and “luck of the Irish” by wearing green, drinking beer, celebrating with parades.

Stitching Cards St. Patrick’s Day pattern

Mother’s Day is celebrated in the U.K. as a day to honor our mothers. It is a day to show thanks for all that our mothers do.

Stitching Cards Border 3: bellflowers ‘Mother’s Day’ pattern

Stitching Cards Border 5: corner swirls ‘Best Mum’ pattern

Easter Sunday commemorates Jesus’ resurrection. Easter Sunday falls on the first Sunday after the first full moon after March 20, the nominal date of the Spring Equinox.

Easter Traditions have been derived primarily from Pagan traditions:

Hot Cross Buns – at the feast of Eostre, the Saxon fertility Goddess, an ox was sacrificed. The ox’s horns became a symbol for the feast. They were carved into the ritual bread. Thus originated “hot cross buns”. The word “buns” is derived from the Saxon word “boun” which means “sacred ox.” Later, the symbol of a symmetrical cross was used to decorate the buns; the cross represented the moon, the heavenly body associated with the Goddess, and its four quarters.

Easter Rabbit and Eggs – the symbols of the Norse Goddess Ostara were the hare and the egg. Both represented fertility. From these, we have inherited the customs and symbols of the Easter egg and Easter rabbit.

Stitching Cards Value Pack No. 8: Easter Patterns

May Day, May 1st, consists of numerous holidays and celebrations around the world from spring celebrations to saint’s feast day to a day for organized labor, etc.

Fathers’ Day in U.K., U.S.A. and Canada.

Fathers day is the day we celebrate our dads. It was invented by a U.S. woman named Sonora Smart Dodd who was raised by her father and thought that they should be celebrated just as much as mothers. Her dad was born in June so she chose to hold the first fathers day on June 19th of 1910. It was President Calvin Coolidge who decided to hold fathers day on the third Sunday of June 14 years later.

Stitching Cards Border 4: diamonds ‘Father’s Day’ pattern

Stitching Cards Border 6: butterflies ‘Best Dad’ pattern

Canada day is a day for Canadians to Celebrate independence. It is celebrated on July 1st unless that date is a Sunday in which case it is celebrated the day after. On July 1st of 1867 the queen of England gave them independence.

The Independence Day referred to here is the U.S. Independence Day also known as the “4th of July” that commemorates the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. It is a Legal U.S. Holiday that is celebrated with picnics and fireworks.

French National Holiday.

Bastille Day is celebrated on July 14th each year to commemorate the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille starting the French Revolution 1789 and the uprising of the modern French nation.