Patriotic Cross Stitch to Celebrate America 250

The United States has a pretty big birthday coming up, and lots of cross stitchers seem to be celebrating with commemorative patriotic cross stitch designs. If you want to stitch up something special for America 250, check out these patriotic patterns.

ONESEO has a set of six cross stitch patterns celebrating America’s birthday, including the logo for the celebration, some patriotic symbol samplers, a 250 year celebration and a patriotic goose (very on theme for 2026). You can also buy individual patterns if you’d rather.

Or you can get nine mini Fourth of July themed designs from Embrovera, including a heart with flag designs, fireworks, an apple pie and happy 250. The designs are all 40 by 40 stitches, which comes out to about 2.9 inches on 14 count fabric (or 7.4 cm)

Monica’s Stitching has this cute America 250 design with a series of flags in a basket surrounded by branches and stars. The design is 70 by 107 stitches and is shown on 40 count linen stitches one over one, which makes the design 3.5 by 5.3 inches, or 8.9 by 13.5 cm.

Stitch up a super traditional looking celebration with this bald eagle and flag design from The Crafted Keeps. This one is 220 by 114 stitches and it looks like it’s stitched on linen though this one is meant to be over 2 threads, so 28 count is equivalent to 14 count on Aida). That would make the finished design 15.7 by 8.1 inches, or 39.9 by 20.7 cm. It uses 12 colors.

Another one featuring an eagle, this time with quilt blocks, a waving flag (which I would stitch in the opposite direction) and more comes from Owl Stitching House. At 83 by 102 stitches, this one will come out to 5.9 by 7.2 inches, or 15 by 18.5 cm, on 14 count fabric.

Or go for a smaller eagle design with this one from The French Giraffe. At just 47 by 47 stitches, this one uses 13 colors and comes out 3.4 inches or a little more than 8.5 cm square on 14 count fabric, which you’ll probably be able to finish before the Fourth.

Stitch 4 Seasons has a bold text based design, while I love the stamp style on these patriotic minis from Vibes Nest LTD. Or stitch up a patriotic street scene (complete with a cat on the roof!) with this design from Little Lama Stitching.

If you love to cross stitch bookmarks, Yellow Birdie Stitches is the Etsy shop for you. The shop is based in the UK and almost all of its designs are bookmarks (there are also some cute square designs).

You’ll find bookmarks about everything from romance novel tropes to Asian inspired towers, cats and Art Nouveau designs.

This one of a mermaid reading would be fun for summer, whether for you or for a mermaid loving person in your life. It measures 24 by 78 stitches and the patterns offer measurements for three different stitch counts, but it’s about 1.75 by 3.5 inches (or 4.4 by 8.8 cm) when stitched on 14 count fabric.

It’s shown here on white fabric but the pattern also recommends light green or blue if you have that in your stash. It calls for 14 colors (or 15 if you choose to use Light Effects thread for part of the project) and it looks like it’s all whole cross stitches with a fair bit of back stitching.

You’ll also need some felt or card stock to finish the back of your bookmark, though it is shown freshly stitched here.

In addition to the bookmarks you’ll also find some square designs that I think are designed to be coasters or mounted onto greeting cards, but of course you could frame them in a small square frame as well.

The cat section has several of these with a cats and bonsai theme. There’s also a coffee set that includes a bookmark, coaster and keychain fob. You’ll also find some seasonal designs.

In addition to the above mentioned categories, you’ll find bookmarks with birds, bugs and dragons; patterns for spring, summer, autumn, Easter, Halloween and Christmas; fantasy designs and projects for tea lovers.

So grab an audiobook and a project form Yellow Birdie Stitches to make for your next paper book read.

[Photo: Yellow Birdie Stitches]

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