The Needlepoint Christmas Gift Guide

The time we spend taking care of ourselves is the best investment we can make, and at Christmas it might be the most thoughtful gift of all. December moves fast, and a needlepoint kit asks for the opposite: a lamp, a comfortable chair and an evening with nowhere else to be. Stitch by stitch, color fills the canvas and the busiest season of the year goes quiet for a while. That’s the gift we make at Unwind Studio: truly unique, artist-designed needlepoint kits for mindful, art-led making.

Artist-designed needlepoint you’d actually hang. Our designs are drawn in our studio in Portugal and by artists from around the world, including official collaborations with the Fondation Arp, the Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí and the Magritte estate. Soft mid-century shapes, joyful color blocking, calm Scandinavian lines, museum masterpieces: pieces that look like contemporary wall art long after the last stitch, not a craft project tucked away in a drawer.

Needlepoint gifts for beginners. No experience needed, and nothing else to buy. Every kit arrives in gift-ready packaging with a printed canvas, cotton or wool threads, two Bohin tapestry needles, a color guide and video tutorials that walk them through their very first stitch. Our beginner needlepoint kits are made for first-timers, and a needlepoint starter kit bundles the extras that make starting even easier, for less than buying them separately.

Gifts for needlepointers. Give them what makes every project even better: a frame that turns a finished canvas into art for the wall, the Decorative Stitches booklet to play with texture, a project bag for the work in progress, or a pair of gold embroidery scissors they’ll reach for every evening.

Needlepoint ornaments and stockings, for years to come. Some gifts are opened once. Hand-stitched needlepoint ornament kits come out of the box every December, and our needlepoint stocking kits can be personalized with a name, ready to hang by the fire for many Christmases to come.

Still can’t decide? An Unwind Studio gift card arrives instantly and lets them choose their own design. However you wrap it, you’re giving the same thing: a few quiet hours, and something beautiful to show for them. 

Let’s unwind together!