Stitchcraft’s Holiday Gift Guide: Unique Finds for Bold Crafters

by Flossie Arend

Can you feel it in the air? The holiday season is creeping in. It’s time to start thinking about gifts. Stitchcraft has been busy working behind the scenes to help our craft clients ready their offerings for all the makers looking for projects to make for others—and gifts to add to their own wish lists.

We love a crafty wish list. Every year, our team shares the gifts we’ve been eyeing for our own personal wish lists because, as crafters, we think and act and shop like your customers. We’re knitters, crocheters, quilters, sewists, ceramists, potters, painters, and embroiderers (literally—each of us engages in one or multiple of those crafts!), so we naturally assume if we’re ogling something for the holidays, your craft customer may be as well.

And the thing about craft gifts is they don’t really have an expiration date. So if nothing on this year’s list grabs your eye, check out our 2024 gift list and 2025 gift list. You’ll probably discover something you need or want to stock in your shop because it’s the perfect evergreen gift for your favorite crafter.

Lisa’s Picks

I picked up a Fibres of Life bag at the Fiber and Fabric Craft Festival in spring 2026, and I love this thing. Their mini pouches are affordable and would make great gifts–with my own embroidery added! I think using a long sashiko embroidery needle would work well on the felted wool fabric.

Knitted hats are always great gifts. The kinds of hats that nonknitters love? Lately, they’ve been in that doubled-brim, pointy-crown style, like store-bought Carhart hats.
Two patterns from Ysolda in different weights with lots of sizes: the Leith Hat and the Musselburgh Hat. The Musselburgh Hat has become an instant classic. Don’t take my word for it: just search the nearly 50,000 projects on Ravelry!

A local needlepoint shop near me, Sunny Stitches, has offered some super-cute Colorado mini needlepoints kits, but they sell out quickly! I can’t find anything like them anywhere else. Little Colorado-scene ornaments would make great gifts for my family and friends. Here are the Flatirons in Boulder!

Michelle’s Picks

Sashiko has been calling to me for some time now. I have stencil grids, but no chalk that fits in the lines. I have frixion pens and water erasable pens, but I honestly don’t know where they are and refuse to buy more. The StitchGrid takes all the guesswork out of creating evenly spaced grids you can use to stitch different sashiko designs. It’s basically just a stamp and washable ink pad (genius), with a tool to measure exact grids. The kit comes with sashiko threads, scissors, and most importantly, a guide to create 30 different patterns.

Fybe.art is a new online maker marketplace that is meant to rival Etsy. It’s vetted to prevent resellers and AI bots, and it’s designed to give a larger profit share to the makers. I would love a gift certificate to Fybe, should a gift certificate feature ever become available. I can’t wait to see how Fybe grows as it attracts more anti-AI vendors fleeing Etsy.

Rebecca’s Picks

If you think a crafter has everything, a pack of labels is a fun and easy little gift. I like the multipack options from both Sarah Hearts and Kylie and the Machine. The choices run the range from sweet to snarky, simple to pop culture adjacent.  

I saw these felt wool pennants in pictures from Nash Yarn Fest and I’m glad that Modern Daily Knitting is offering them again! Crafty room decor is always welcome.  

I always have room for another bag and I love the boat tote style. Anyone who knows me will know I brought my knitting (just in case).

Flossie’s Picks

A Dictionary of Color Combinations has been on my wish list forever. Sanzo Wada, a Japanese color researcher, painter, and costume designer, created a 6-volume color harmony guide in 1933 using traditional Japanese dyes and textiles as inspiration. The volumes were later condensed into this single book, which contains all 348 color combinations. It has become a singular resource for artists, designers, and even historians, as each palette contains details of where, when, and why those colors are paired together. I would also like the second volume, published later and containing an additional 233 color pairings.

I love needle minders, I love threaders, I love a needle minder that’s also a threader. It’s the most useful accessory in a cross stitcher’s/embroiderer’s arsenal and no, you can never have too many. The 2-in-1 option is indispensable. SChandworks has a great selection, and WhatCantBrookeDo also has a 3-in-1 option (with a thread cutter!) that I’ve also been eyeing.

I have wanted Twice Sheared Sheep’s Quick Gauge Ruler  and Quick Row Gauge Ruler for what seems like eons, but they truly feel like splurge purchases. They are the kinds of tools I think I might need, but not desperately—things I truly just want. I covet them. Ie, the perfect gift. Please someone else buy them, so I can own them guilt-free. 

Linda’s Picks

I’d love the Re:Designed Project 10 bag (in color Oak or Walnut, since you’re asking). This might be surprising, but I usually use boring clear zippered bags to stow my works in progress, because I don’t need a lot of bells and whistles. I like how this bag opens flat and allows for all the messy WIP chaos, but closes up effortlessly, looking sleek and contained. Plus, I love a good, durable bag I can use for years to come.

I’m also always open to copious amounts of beautiful bias bindings, especially made from Liberty Fabrics via Bessie Pearl . I love having a good selection of bias to use in finishing my sewn garments, and it’s always a bit of a pain to make. Being stocked up on beautiful options that don’t require turning on the iron feels like a true luxury. 

And the thing I always ask for is a gift card to a local yarn or quilt shop. I’m particular about what materials I want to work with, and this is the best gift (not impersonal at all!), especially if it helps me discover a new local gem. Guilt free purchasing of yarn and fabric that I don’t need but definitely want is top on my list, and sometimes I’ll treat myself to a tool upgrade, like brand new pinking shears or a specialty sewing machine foot.  Bonus points if the giver wants to take me to lunch before or after. Some shops I love: Makeshift Crafts, SewBo, Treelotta. New shops I’d like to try: Sunny Stitches, Colorful Yarns, At Wips End.

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