Hanukkah Cross Stitch Patterns

Every year I share Hanukkah cross stitch patterns, but it seems especially important this year to take a moment to reflect on the season of light and hope that Hanukkah is.

Stitch People has a cute Hanukkah freebie you can get when signing up for emails. It features a Star of David, menorah and dreidel.

The Hanukkah minis from Craftigurumi on Etsy were stitched on plastic canvas, making them perfect to turn into pins or magnets. But you could also stitch them on regular Aida cloth or even on cloth napkins or other linen for the holiday table. Patterns include a dreidel, menorah, Star of David, I’m guessing a piece of gelt, a jelly doughnut and a torah scroll.

More mini designs can be found on this sampler style word art cross stitch pattern from Etsy seller Little Apple Stitchery. The full piece is 133 by 133 stitches, or 9.5 inches square on 14 count cloth. It uses 11 colors.

Or there’s this Hanukkah symbols sampler from Cross Stitch Wow on Etsy, which has gifts and a dove and some other symbols we haven’t seen in other projects. It uses five colors and comes out at 5 inches square on 14 count fabric, with a stitch count of 70 by 70.

I love this Hanukkah word art pattern from Oh My Stitches Shop on Etsy. It looks really modern and pretty, especially on the dark fabric, but you could stitch the words in a different color and use a lighter background fabric color if you wanted. As is it uses six colors and measures 164 by 118 stitches, or 11.4 by 8.26 inches on 14 count fabric.

And finally I could not resist sharing this fun dreidel-spinning gnome from Demented Stitches on Etsy. This one is 67 by 69 stitches, or just a little less than 5 inches square when stitched up. I love it in traditional Hanukkah colors but you can make yours in whatever colors you like.

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Cross Stitching on Plastic Canvas

I have never stitched a greeting card, but I kind of like the idea of it. It’s a card and a gift all in one, and hopefully one the recipient will hang onto for years to come.

This collection of easy and colorful greeting card cross stitch patterns from Susan Bates (via Gathered) are a great place to start if you want to stitch your own greeting cards.

These text-based designs cover a lot of card-sending events, such as:

get well soon
happy birthday
thank you
thinking of you
congratulations
anniversary
new home
good luck

The lettering is done in gradients and there are other details like hearts and stars, a house key and a gift, depending on the text. There are full cross stitches and back stitch on all of the cards, and they use 15 colors for the cross stitching and six for the back stitching (and just two colors are used for both, so it’s 19 colors total).

The designs vary a bit in size but the biggest one is 52 by 67 stitches, which comes out to 3.75 by 4.75 inches or 9.5 by 12 cm when worked on 14 count fabric or 28 count evenweave. The text suggests beads are also used in the patterns but there’s no note of them in the key, so go wild and add some beads if you like.

Designs are worked on a price of 6 by 8 inch/15 by 20 cm fabric and then mounted to a card with a colorful baking piece of card stock behind it. This is easy to assemble with whatever cardstock greeting cards you have on hand.

You can get the free charts as a PDF from Gathered.

Have you ever stitched your own greeting cards? I’d love to hear about it, or let me know if these inspire you to try.

[Photo: Susan Bates via Gathered]

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