The Stitch Pattern / Premade patterns
Thanksgiving Turkey
A turkey with its tail fanned into nine feathers of gold, amber and rust. Nine colours, whole stitches only, and small enough to finish before the table is laid.
Open this pattern Free — chart, floss list and printable PDF
The chart
- 35 × 32 stitches, 420 of them worked, the other 700 left as bare fabric.
- 9 DMC colours, about 9 skeins in total.
- Whole cross stitches only — no backstitch, no fractional stitches, nothing to unpick at midnight.
Finished size
| Fabric | Inches | Centimetres |
|---|---|---|
| 11-count Aida | 3.2 × 2.9 in | 8 × 7 cm |
| 14-count Aida | 2.5 × 2.3 in | 6 × 6 cm |
| 16-count Aida | 2.2 × 2.0 in | 6 × 5 cm |
| 18-count Aida | 1.9 × 1.8 in | 5 × 5 cm |
Add three inches all round for hooping and framing: on 14-count that means cutting about 9 × 9 inches.
Floss list
| Colour | Name | Stitches | Skeins |
|---|---|---|---|
| DMC 898 | Coffee Brown, Very Dark | 136 | 1 |
| DMC 783 | Topaz, Medium | 67 | 1 |
| DMC 918 | Red Copper, Dark | 56 | 1 |
| DMC 433 | Brown, Medium | 55 | 1 |
| DMC 922 | Copper, Light | 47 | 1 |
| DMC 720 | Orange Spice, Dark | 40 | 1 |
| DMC 972 | Canary, Deep | 14 | 1 |
| DMC 666 | Red, Bright | 3 | 1 |
| DMC 310 | Black | 2 | 1 |
Skein counts include a 20% margin, because running out of a dye lot halfway through is the one mistake you cannot stitch your way out of.
Make it yours
Open the pattern and every square is editable: repaint any stitch, swap a shade for one of the other 455 on the DMC card, or erase parts back to bare fabric. The printable PDF is built from whatever is on screen when you download it.