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Thanksgiving Cross Stitch Patterns

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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. 

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Hanukkah Cross Stitch Projects

Hanukkah is a great reason to pull out your cross stitch fabric and thread and stitch up some fun seasonal cross stitch patterns. 

If you have trouble spelling Hanukkah (I know I do!) you’ll want to stitch up the How Do You Spell… project from SKB Cross Stitch Design. This one includes a bunch of different ways to spell the holiday, along with some symbols like a dreidel and menorah. (Technically I think all the ways to spell it are “correct.”) The pattern includes full, fractional and bask titches, and measures 8.5 by 7 inches, or 21.6 by 17.8 cm. It has the date for 2004/5785 but you can easily change the year or leave that part off. 

Another project with some fun word play is the Words to Live By chart from Sam Brie Stitches. This one includes Hanukkah related symbols and word presented crossword puzzle style, which is fun to stitch and to display. The design uses 10 colors and measures 74 by 103 stitches. It’s shown worked on 18 count fabric. 

I may have shared these before, but the Hanukkah patterns from the Frosted Pumpkin Stitchery are so cute they’re definitely worth sharing again. Happy Hanukkah features a menorah, dreidels, gelt, stars and candles, and it fits in a 6-inch hoop. At 75 by 75 stitches, it comes out to 5.4 inches/13.4 cm on 14 count Aida or 28 count linen. They also have this cute little dreidel stamp cross stitch pattern, which is 39 by 49 stitches, or 2.8 by 3.5 inches (about 7 by 9 cm) on 14 count Aida or 28 count linen. 

Works By ABC has a lot of great patterns for Hanukkah, but here are just a couple to get you started. The Rules for Dreidel design is fun for kids and adults and shows the different sides of the dreidel and what it means when you land on them. The stitch count is 62 by 94 and its shown worked on 32 count linen. It calls for three colors. I also like this menorah one, which measures 44 by 49 stitches and uses two colors along with coordinating seed beads. On 32 count linen as shown (equivalent to 16 count Aida) it measures 2.75 by 3.1 inches, or almost 7 by 7.8 cm.