I often pat myself on the back when I consider how lucky I am to live ion San Francisco. It took me about 30 seconds of seeing the skyline late at night on my first trip here to fall in love with it and that hasn’t faltered in more than 30 years.
I enjoy stitching San Francisco themed needlepoint and, judging from my emails, you do too. Visiting here, these make lovely mementos of your trip, living here, they are great for gifts. Her are some of my favorites.

Starting out with something big, bold, and beautiful, how about the “Christmas in The City” stocking from DJ Designs? I love it because it has so many wonderful buildings. It’s a great piece and if you don’t want a stocking there are two rectangular versions and one of the bridge, Santa, and the moon.

Painted Pony has travel angels and rounds. The San Francisco travel angel includes the Golden Gate Bridge, some ‘painted lady” Victorians, and our lovely hills. There is also a round and wine-themed angels and rounds.

Designs by Petei has an extensive line of destination mini-socks. I’ve stitched both the California(pictured above) and San Francisco ones for friends. In Good Company also makes a San Francisco sock.

Needlepoint Broad has some unusual canvases, such as this one of fireworks and the Golden Gate. I’m particularly fond of this because the City’s big fireworks display looks like this from the Marin side of the bridge. She also has a postcard of san Francisco,
Finally, consider a needlepoint from one of our local designers, Peter Ashe. His canvas often depict San Francisco houses, especially Victorians, and are often available on eBay.
About Janet M Perry
Janet Perry is the Internet's leading authority on needlepoint. She designs, teaches and writes, getting raves from her fans for her innovative techniques, extensive knowledge and generous teaching style. A leading writer of stitch guides, she blogs here and lives on an island in the northeast corner of the SF Bay with her family
aha. it runs in the family.
i like the fire works. you should make me the postcard. and anna the fireworks.
Acutally got the angel on Sunday and was thinking about making it, but not for this year.
I have the San Francisci angel canvas. Is there a stitch guide available and a thread kit?
I don’t have an already written guide for this, but would be happy to write a custom guide for you. Please use the contactr button to let me know if you want this.
Because I am not a shop, I don’t supply thread kits.
Keep Stitching,
Janet
Born in san jose,conceived in The City during WW Ii. Love s.f…return yearly…want an easy needlepoint kit of the Golden Gate Bridge……please advise…
I can’t think of any needlepoint kits of San Francisco offhand. However there are plenty of easy needlepoint canvases of The City.
The thing to do in this case is to work with a shop that can turn the canvas into a kit, providing you with the threads to make the project.
Keep Stitching, Janet