Nautical needlepoint patterns

Anchors, sailboats, lighthouses, buoys, tall ships, crossed oars, whales, lobsters, shells and sea turtles.

Navy and white run through most of them, and a few are stripes and waves, or rows of anchors for a belt or a key fob. Where a figure sits on a plain ground, work the ground in basketweave: it is the tent stitch most likely to keep a small piece square. That matters here, because most of these are four-inch squares on 18 mesh, the size of a coaster or an ornament.