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Designer Spotlight: Emily Call

March 12, 2026 by Sarah White

Emily Call’s Etsy shop is full of cross stitch patterns for the whole year, including specific seasons, affirmations and floral designs. Let’s take a closer look.

The biggest category on the site is called “all year” and it includes month by month patterns, as well as pillows and other projects stitched with affirmations like “I am worthy,” “I am lucky” and “I am brave.” 

I naturally had to pick one to share that doesn’t quite vibe with the others, but it made me smile. These colorful queens are helping each other out because they know it’s all about cooperation, not competition. The pattern listing is a little short on details about this duo but it does tell me that the pattern uses nine colors and was stitched on 28 count linen. I love the frame, too. 

In addition to these more general designs, there’s a large selection of Christmas patterns, where you will find lots of Santas and snowmen and a couple of religious themed projects as well.

In the Halloween corner there are witches, bats, cats and ghosts, a sampler with a spider and some spooky little friends perfect for hanging on your Halloween tree. 

There’s a super sweet collection of Valentine’s Day projects (along with one specific to Galentine’s Day), a nice set of patriotic American projects (I love the little USA banner) and a handful of spring and Easter patterns, of both a secular and spiritual nature. 

In addition you’ll find a few patterns related to winter, St. Patrick’s Day, autumn and summer, as well as a few patterns designated florals, several of which include text and a couple are funny gardeners in their element. 

If you’re looking for sweet and simple patterns to get you through the year and to make for holidays and other occasions, Emily Call has some great stuff. Check her out on Etsy!

[Photo: Emily Call]

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Hanukkah Cross Stitch Projects

Hanukkah is a great reason to pull out your cross stitch fabric and thread and stitch up some fun seasonal cross stitch patterns. 

If you have trouble spelling Hanukkah (I know I do!) you’ll want to stitch up the How Do You Spell… project from SKB Cross Stitch Design. This one includes a bunch of different ways to spell the holiday, along with some symbols like a dreidel and menorah. (Technically I think all the ways to spell it are “correct.”) The pattern includes full, fractional and bask titches, and measures 8.5 by 7 inches, or 21.6 by 17.8 cm. It has the date for 2004/5785 but you can easily change the year or leave that part off. 

Another project with some fun word play is the Words to Live By chart from Sam Brie Stitches. This one includes Hanukkah related symbols and word presented crossword puzzle style, which is fun to stitch and to display. The design uses 10 colors and measures 74 by 103 stitches. It’s shown worked on 18 count fabric. 

I may have shared these before, but the Hanukkah patterns from the Frosted Pumpkin Stitchery are so cute they’re definitely worth sharing again. Happy Hanukkah features a menorah, dreidels, gelt, stars and candles, and it fits in a 6-inch hoop. At 75 by 75 stitches, it comes out to 5.4 inches/13.4 cm on 14 count Aida or 28 count linen. They also have this cute little dreidel stamp cross stitch pattern, which is 39 by 49 stitches, or 2.8 by 3.5 inches (about 7 by 9 cm) on 14 count Aida or 28 count linen. 

Works By ABC has a lot of great patterns for Hanukkah, but here are just a couple to get you started. The Rules for Dreidel design is fun for kids and adults and shows the different sides of the dreidel and what it means when you land on them. The stitch count is 62 by 94 and its shown worked on 32 count linen. It calls for three colors. I also like this menorah one, which measures 44 by 49 stitches and uses two colors along with coordinating seed beads. On 32 count linen as shown (equivalent to 16 count Aida) it measures 2.75 by 3.1 inches, or almost 7 by 7.8 cm. 

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