Abstract: This invention provides a cross-stitching arrangement in which a desired embroidery pattern first is laid out in outline form on a paper and then reproduced by stamped crosses on the material that is to receive the cross-stitching. The paper layout may be on quadrille paper with rows of aligned squares encompassed within the pattern corresponding in size and position to the crosses to be stitched to the material. Alternatively, the pattern may be laid out on plain paper with crosses applied in aligned rows as defined by the pattern, these rows of crosses then being reproduced on the material in giving the locations of the cross-stitches to be made. The stamping of the material, and of the paper in the alternate procedure, is accomplished by a stamp having a predetermined size of cross marking.