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.

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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