More Ideas for Cross Stitch Gifts

The other day I shared a post about personalized cross stitch gifts to make for people, and now I’ve got another one full of more ideas that you can personalize or not for the people on your list.

The post from Sirious Stitches delves a little bit more into the thought process that should go behind deciding what and whether to stitch for someone, so even if you don’t need the inspiration you should check that part of the post out. (Quote of forever: “Not everyone values your time, but YOU should.”)

It then goes through a bunch of basic categories that you should consider when you stitch for other people. Many of these are small, easy, still have time even in mid-December kind of ideas. There are classics like Christmas ornaments — a wide variety of which you see in the photo above — and bookmarks, but also some things you might not have thought of, like plastic canvas items (which I never think of as being a medium for cross stitch, though it’s perfect because you can cut it to the size of your project and it doesn’t fray).

The post also provides reminders you might need that you can stitch on all sorts of things (like clothing), or use stitched pieces in lots of different ways (like making bags with a cross stitch piece on the front).

In that sense this post is great for anyone who might just be wondering what else they can do with cross stitch. If you’ve just been stitching up projects framed in hoops (not that there’s anything wrong with that!) and you aren’t quite sure what else you can make, this post has a lot of great ideas. Even if you’re stitching for yourself. Which you aboslutely should be doing.

Check out all the great ideas at Sirious Stitches.

[Photo: Sirious Stitches]

I started writing this one as a designer spotlight kind of post, and then I realized when I was almost done with it that I had actually featured this designer before. It was in late 2024, so I’ll forgive myself for forgetting, but it’s worth taking another look at Mama Witch Cross Stitch. It looks like the shop has changed a bit since the last time I looked in, and you all just needed to see this amazing pattern anyway.

In the listing this one is called “whimsical opossum,” because of course it is. This little creature is sporting a straw hat and playing a banjo next to a crock of moonshine and surrounded by a wreath of pumpkins, mushrooms and other fall icons. Clicking through the images, though, I see it’s also called Possum Song, which is also pretty great.

Either way, the design is 144 by 130 stitches, which comes out to 10.29 by 9.29 inches, or about 26 by 23.5 cm on 14 count fabric.

This is not the only possum pattern offered by this shop, but you get the vibe from this one.

And to quickly check in on the rest of the shop, there are a great number of Halloween themed cross stitch patterns here, too, many with a sort of dark whimsy like mermaid skeletons, cat witches and a pumpkin-headed rider on a skeleton unicorn, to name just a few.

Another category worth noting, though it is much smaller, is “sad Victorian ghosts,” which features ghosts (sometimes in Victorian garb, sometimes not) going to the pub and the library, hanging laundry and taking a bath.

There are also a lot of Christmas designs, some sweet and some snarky, and a few creepy ones, too. Other categories include the new for 2026 “sunny patterns” (similar style motifs just with brighter colors and lighter backgrounds), as well as bookmarks and mini cross stitch designs.

[Photo: Mama Witch Cross Stitch]

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