Thanksgiving Cross Stitch Patterns

It’s a fine time to stitch up a turkey themed cross stitch pattern for Thanksgiving or any time you want to be reminded to be thankful.

This gobble til you wobble design from Small Cross Stitch Co is decidedly Thanksgiving in nature (unless you also eat turkey for Christmas). It has six options for wording to go under the turkey including “pour some gravy on me” and “Happy Thanksgiving.” Or you can just stitch up the turkey, which is only 36 by 34 stitches, or 2.6 by 2.5 inches/6.6 by 6.4 cm on 14 count fabric.

The Give Thanks tiny Quaker sampler form Studio HMP has a fall feel and would be pretty to have out throughout the season. This one is 79 by 79 stitches, which comes out to 5.9 inches/14.3 cm square on 25 count Laguna over 2 strands, which is what is shown in use in the photo (and which is similar in count to 14 count Aida). It uses eight colors.

Cute Patterns by Maria has this cute Happy Thanksgiving design that would be fun to stitch as is or you can take each of the icons and stitch them on napkins, an apron, or a tea towel. The design as shown uses 23 colors and comes out to 67 by 59 stitches. On 14 count fabric that is about 4.7 by 4.3 inches, or 12 by 11 cm.

Remember to be thankful all through the fall with this Thankful garland pattern from My Lovely Embroidery NB. It features five fall leaves with different things to be thankful for stitched on them. The font is pretty simple if you want to change the words, but the ones included are pretty nice. The design is 145 by 137 stitches, and uses 19 colors in full cross stitches and back stitching. On 14 count fabric it will be 10.36 by 9.79 inches, or 23.02 by 21.75 cm. The pattern includes measurements for other counts if you want to make it smaller.

Inkspire Studio Shops offers cross stitch patterns as well as tons of different stitch minders, scissor charms and thread organization tools.

We’ll get to all that, but since we’re mostly here for the patterns, let’s start there.

All of the patterns are in one category (called Inkspire Originals if you’re following along). There are a lot of book-themed projects and more of the designs are bookmarks than anything else. You’ll find trope bookmarks, a Reading Rainbow themed design, flowers and a super cute watercolor set bookmark, to name a few.

And while the book themed projects are by far the most numerous, I wanted to share this super cute pile of vintage Pyrex style bowls. I love the colors on this one and it should be easy to stitch because so much of it is blocks (or bowls) of a single color. This one is only available as a printed pattern, but most of them are digital.

It calls for six colors and comes out 5.6 by 6.9 inches, or 14.2 by 17.5 cm when stitched on 14 count fabric.

In addition to the bookmarks and book themed projects you’ll find a few kitchen projects and some Halloween and Christmas designs as well.

But what this shop is really about is needle minders, and there are tons of them, with all kinds of themes ranging from introverted and snarky to animal themes, food and beverages, retro designs and religious and inspiring needle minders.

If you don’t know about needle minders, these are acrylic with magnets. You stick a magnet to the back of your work, add the needle minder to the front of the work, and then it holds your sewing needle when you’re not stitching. No need for piercing your fabric or losing your needle between stitching sessions.

She also makes charms you can attach to your scissors (or use as a stitch marker if you’re a knitter or crocheter), inventory and project trackers and bags large and small to hold works in progress and other supplies. She’s also got a great collection of vintage cross stitch patterns and kits, so check out all the fun goodies at Inkspired Studio Shops.

[Photo: Inkspire Studio Shops]

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