By Cross Stitch Library · October 10, 2026
A red fox in a green sweater lies on its tummy drawing a doodle with a teal crayon, tail curled in the air — a sweet, wide-format cross-stitch for kids' rooms.
Your pattern is at the end of this page, right after the stitching guide below.
Stretched out on its tummy with its tail flicked up behind it, a little fox in a green sweater concentrates hard on a crayon drawing.
This one is landscape format: 196 stitches wide by 127 high, finishing at 14.0“ x 9.1“ on 14-count. That makes it a good fit for the space above a desk, a bookshelf, or a playroom art table, where a tall portrait piece wouldn’t sit right. The drawing on the paper is deliberately scribbly and childlike, which is part of the charm — a kid who loves drawing will spot themselves in it immediately. It sits well next to the Baby Raccoon with a Chocolate Chip Cookie in a playroom, and if you want another fox, the Red Fox Peeking Around a Door is the grown-up version; our fox pattern round-up compares all six foxes.
The fox’s coat runs on two colors, DMC 740 Tangerine (3,056 stitches) and 951 Tawny Light (2,995), with 2,671 stitches of 310 Black outlining everything. Big blocks of orange and cream move quickly. The detail sits in a few small places — the eyes, the crayon and the drawing — which keeps the overall pattern at a solid Intermediate.
Because it’s wide rather than tall, check that your fabric piece is cut landscape before you start — on 14-count you’ll want at least 20“ x 15“ to leave framing margin. The crayon drawing on the paper is 246 stitches of DMC 3849 Teal Green, with 16 stitches of 964 Seagreen worked into it; stitch both after the paper’s cream fill so the teal sits on top cleanly. The smallest color is DMC 08 Driftwood — 4 stitches in the drawing area — and it’s easy to skip on a first pass, so tick it off on your chart as soon as you stitch it. See our nursery and kids’ room round-up for more designs that suit a child’s room.
Choose your paper size and color or black & white, then download the Little Fox Drawing with a Crayon PDF chart and thread list — free, no sign-up.
