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Christmas at Riverdrift House
Celebrate Christmas with Riverdrift House's beautiful samplers, all are cross stitch only and easy to stitch, and come in wonderful cheerful colors.
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 Little Merry Christmas Riverdrift House |  Happy Christmas Sampler Riverdrift House |  Noel Heart Riverdrift House |  Birds and Words Riverdrift House |  House in the Woods Riverdrift House |
>> see all Christmas patterns by Riverdrift House
Countdown to Christmas
The little lord is wearing velvet pants and a brocade vest, the hens come with beribboned gift boxes and the lady-a-dancing is twirling in the snowy landscape. Full of fun detail to cross stitch as you hum along the traditional Christmas carol. A design by Cheryl of Tiny Modernist, now available on Creative Poppy's website.
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Exquisitely Designed Angel
Here are some photos of an exceptional piece by Lesley Teare. Check out the wonderful detail of the angel's face, the luminous golden wings or the fine detail of the dress and laced boots. Each tiny section of the work will bring hours of pleasure.
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Nature's Christmas
More delightful Lesley Teare patterns have been added lately to our website, including these 3 works inspired by Mother Nature.
 Nature's Christmas |  Robin with Christmas Roses |  Christmas Robin |
New photos of the Holly Girl
We've received some new photos of the Lesley Teare's Holly Girl stitched on natural raw linen over two (instead of white fabric). She was stitched by Marie-Claude who decided to add little snow flakes in the background. Well, well done Marie-Claude and thank you for sending your picture!
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Christmas Giving
Exquisitely designed by Deborah A. Dick of Tempting Tangles, some more Christmas patterns are now available on Creative Poppy's website.
To start withhere is a wise - and very ornamental - reminder of what Christmas is all about.
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Winter Birds
Also by Tempting Tangles Designs, two lovely portraits of birds with evocative verses. Both are set in the snow, with a fine layer covering twigs, berries and flowers.
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>> see all patterns of Birds in Winter
Christmas Greetings banner
New by Alessandra Adelaide, a large and cheerful banner to greet visitors into you home come Christmas time.
A Creative Poppy exclusive.
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A question from a stitcher: Christmas earrings
Annette asks:
I'm looking for Christmas patterns suitable to make earrings out of, roughly 19 x 10 stitches total for each one, to be earing size. Do you have any small enough motifs?
Carole replies for Creative Poppy:
The two last rows of Maria Diaz 60 Christmas mini motifs, that's 22 designs, are small enough to fit into a 14 x 14 square. A couple of them are only 10 stitches wide, that's 3/4 inch high by 1/2 inch wide (2cm x 1.5cm) on 18 ct fabric. You can then roll and mount them into a tiny cylinder shape with a ring at the top hanging from the earring hook.There's plenty of fun themes including snowmen, Christmas tree, penguins, stars, and more... Why not stitch on red Aida?
I hope you find a lot of inspiration for your earring project. Do send us a photo!
Woodlands Christmas
Celebrating Christmas in the quiet of the woods....
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Stitch a Gift-Tag
How better to personalize a gift than to stitch the gift card yourself? The stitched piece can then serve as a Christmas ornament. The three designs are also by Shannon Christine Wasilieff.
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More Gift Tags
Choose from charts full of mini motifs brought to you by Lesley Teare and Maria Diaz or the refined Christmas series by Faby Reilly (detail of one of 4 patterns shown).
Small Christmas motifs (for cards, gift-tags, etc..)
Christmas Reindeer
Shy creatures of the forest, reindeer are such a beautiful theme in cross stitch. Here are two Christmas patterns with reindeer, brought to you by Barbara Ana, including this unique portrait of a reindeer, with deep blue eyes and a message of Joy.
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More Reindeer in Cross stitch
 Nordic Christmas banner Perrette Samouiloff |  Christmas Hearts ornaments Marie-Anne Réthoret-Mélin |  I'm on my way Sylvie Teytaud |  Spreading Joy Barbara Ana Designs |  White Christmas Muriel Berceville |
>> see all Christmas patterns with Reindeer
Miniature Christmas landscapes - inside a Snowball
A lovely new series by Shannon Christine: tiny little snowy landscapes inside a glass globe. They come in different shapes so you can collect them or stitch them in a single piece of fabric. We just love the red Christmas truck loading the trees. So cute!
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>> see more Christmas patterns by Shannon Christine Designs
New photos of Christmas Joy
Check out this beautiful stitched version of Christmas Joy, also by Shannon Christine.
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Nativity in cross stitch
Brought to you by Riverdrift house. What makes this nativity design unique is that, like other Riverdrift House cross stitch patterns, it was created in the manner of a sampler, with plenty of detail and many decorative motifs and borders.
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More nativity designs
 Three Kings Perrette Samouiloff |  Holy Night Gracewood Stitches |  Nativity Humbug Faby Reilly |  Nativity Lesley Teare Designs |  Christmas Nativity frame Faby Reilly |
>> see all Christmas patterns (all designers)
Highlights of Winter
Winter is not all doom and gloom. Think of the frozen icicles shining in the pale morning sun, frost motifs on the windows, red berries in the bushes attracting all kinds of birds. Deborah A. Dick of Tempting Tangles, captures the spirit of Winter in this very pretty design.
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'Twas the night before Christmas...
A delightful cross stitch ornament showing the stockings of all the family, from Dad's big wooly socks, to the baby's tiny little red one.
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>> see more Seasonal patterns by Tempting Tangles
>> see all Christmas ornament patterns (all designers)
A greeting card with a vintage touch
So delicate and exquisitely designed, we love Monique Bonnin's latest vintage postcard, just in time for Seasons' greetings!
It's so beautiful you might want to keep it for youself...
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More vintage Greeting Cards by Monique Bonnin
Why not collect them? You can even mount them on stiff cardboard and send them by the post. Don't forget to stick a real stamp though!
 Best wishes - Postcard |  Nostalgia - Greeting card |
|  Happy New Year - Greeting card |
>> see all vintage postcard patterns by Monique Bonnin
>> see all greeting cards (all designers)
Christmas nativity
With beautiful visual effects in the way the decorative border is designed, this ornament focuses on the essential of Christmas, the Holy Night of the Nativity.
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>> see all cross stitch patterns related to the Nativity
Christmas cuties
Children singing merrily a little boy plays the violin. A delightful pattern by Perrette Samouiloff that will look great as the background of a Christmas wreath, or simply framed in an embroidery hoop.
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More Christmas patterns by Perrette Samouiloff
When it comes to Christmas, Perrette Samouiloff is always full of ideas for cross stitching. Here's a glimpse of some of her Xmas patterns. There are many more to check out!
 Happy Childhood - Christmas time |  Nordic Christmas banner |  8 Christmas Ornaments |  Santa is really busy! |  Red Christmas Sampler |
>> see more Christmas patterns by Perrette Samouiloff
Christmas Gifts - Customized
Imagine receiving a personalized gift with this little polar bear and your own initial! These little bears by Lesley Teare are so cheerful and cuddly, they are a delight to stitch and will be cherished by the gift's recipient for their own sake.
Of course you could also stitch the whole alphabet as a banner too. Click on images to see the full alphabet.
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>> see all Christmas mini-motifs (all designers)
Happy Christmas to All, and to All a Good Night!
Now complete, From Tempting Tangles, Deborah A. Dicks' "Night before Christmas" series, comprising 4 ornaments, that put together read the entire poem. We particularly love the beautiful last part with an imposing St Nicholas holding a bejewelled staff
|  Comet & Cupid |  Dancer & Prancer |  A Merry Christmas to All! |
>> See all Christmas Ornament patterns (all designers)
Awesome Tree
Take a close look at all the exquisite detail in Faby Reilly's Tannenbaum.
The piece is entirely stitched in powdery pink tones, with delicate details of gold and ivory as well as some specially adapted stitches. A masterpiece of needlework.
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>> see all Christmas Tree patterns (all designers)
Jewels and fairies in the snow
Another tree, this time a branch. A white silhouette covered with snow. All the better to show of the gem-like ornaments around this bird house. Designed by Shannon Christine.
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Next some tiny dancing fairies, exquisitely detailed in a mixture of beadwork and cross stitch.
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>> see all Christmas patterns by Shannon Christine Designs
Winter visitors
Thre's a delicate Christmassy feel to this wreath pattern, embellished with red berries, ivy, holly and Christmas roses. Five little winter birds have come to visit, expertly rendered in cross stitch by Lesley Teare.
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>> see all bird patterns by Lesley Teare Designs
Stitchers' essentials
Indispensable in any stitcher's chart library: a chart full of joyful mini Christmas motifs, always handy whenever there is a personalized gift to make - or just for the fun of stitching cheerful and quick pieces, one for every day leading up to Christmas!
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A British Christmas
Traditional designs with a special touch - we love Christmas as seen through the twinkling eyes of British designer Lesley Teare.
 Holly Girl |  A Partrige in a Pear Tree |  Blackwork angel |  Christmas Birds |  Christmas Angel cards |
>> see all Christmas patterns by Lesley Teare
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Christmas Ornaments from Tempting Tangles
New from designer Deborah A. Dick, 2 designs inspired by the all-time favorite poem "The Night before Christmas". All Tempting Tangles designs, no matter how small, are elaborately designed with fun stitch detail such as the loop-made beard of Santa Claus, the red-bead-tipped noses of the reindeer, or the decorative borders worked with Sofia crosses and beaded diamonds.
 Santa's Sleigh |  Dash Away All! |  Comet & Cupid |  Naughty or Nice Santa |
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Kyoko Maruoka's little Christmas shop
One a year in Japan, GERA! designer Kyoko Maruoka stages her pretty embroidered creations in a small shop and invites stitchers to attend. It is an opportunity to exchange and proudly showcase one's achievements, find new ideas, seek inspiration and ask for advice. For those stitchers who live too far to attend, here is a glimpse of the GERA Christmas Shop!
>> see all Christmas patterns by GERA! Kyoko Maruoka
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 Santa has come - I |  Santa has come - II |  Santa's House |  Santa's S.O.S. |
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