Christmas ornaments: simplicity and style

Forget about the bling. The new trend in Christmas decoration is towards simplicity and nature. Nothing exemplifies this better than the latest ornaments designed by Perrette Samouiloff. Using natural materials such as raw linen and wooden beads as a base, she has added lovely stitched details in a refined range of garnet floss and a lovely satin ribbon tassel.

8 Christmas Ornaments Counted cross stitch pattern by Perrette Samouiloff

Ducks wandering... into the bathroom!

Check out Perrette Samouiloff's latest design, a series of cute little ducks heading straight for your bathroom.
There is one design for each size of bathtowel (bath towel, hand towel and guest towel) and there is even an extra border pattern that you can stitch on a pouch or toiletries bag to make a matching set. These pretty patterns are monochrome and can be stitched on any color towel using any of your variegated (but colofast!) favorite floss colors.

Wandering Ducks - Design for guest size towel Counted cross stitch pattern by Perrette Samouiloff

Wandering Ducks - Design for Hand size towel Counted cross stitch pattern by Perrette Samouiloff

Wandering Ducks - Design for Bath size towel Counted cross stitch pattern by Perrette Samouiloff

>> see all patterns designed for Bathroom towels

A visit to the zoo

It's worth checking out this zoo pattern that has many amusing and fine features. The animals are rendered in great detail, especially all the birds. This pattern designed by Perrette Samouiloff is available both in a large and smaller format.

Baby at the Zoo (large pattern)     Counted cross stitch pattern by Perrette Samouiloff

Seaside fun

New! Also from Perrette Samouiloff, here is a full color version of the exquisite "Gone fishing" series. It's full of rich detail with every type of fishing gear you can think of. The fish are beautifully rendered too, involving quite a few three-quarter cross stitches but it's really worth the effort because the fish almost come to life with the light on their scales.

Design available both as a large and a smaller pattern.

Gone fishing - color version (large pattern)     Counted cross stitch pattern by Perrette Samouiloff

Gone fishing - color version (small pattern)     Counted cross stitch pattern by Perrette Samouiloff

Stitching in red with Perrette Samouiloff

Here are some new cheerful new patterns to stitch for Christmas.  Pick your favorite red, be it a solid color or an overdyed and enjoy.  There are some more delightful Xmas patterns by Perrette Samouiloff on our website too. 

Red Christmas sampler, designed by Perrette Samouiloff

Christmas welcome (small), designed by Perrette Samouiloff

>> see all of Perrette Samouiloff's Christmas patterns.

Perrette Samouiloff pattern selected as editor's choice in Cross stitch crazy's Autumn chart selection

Crazy's chart choice: Autumn

Selected by Cross stitch Crazy N 143 - September 2010

Happy childhood, Autumn, designed by Perrette Samouiloff

 "The beauty of this gorgeous designis that you can stitch it as a complete picture, depicting all the fun activities children engage in during autumn, or stitch all your favourite individually"

Up in the Apple tree (what did you see?), design by Perrette Samouiloff

(Editor's choice)

 "This pretty design featuring children climbing a tree to pick apples

 [...] will look fabulous hung on a kitchen wall"

Back to school!

Back to school means lots of friends and happy times in the playground. Designer Perrette Samouiloff brings back great memories of playing with marbles, singing rhymes and skipping, swinging and rocking on the see-saw! 

This is a great theme that is rarely represented in cross stitch! 

The playground (small pattern), designed by Perrette Samouiloff

Gone fishing, having lots of fun...

Where have they all gone? Fishing of course!

Have a look at the amazing details of this extraodinary fish themed pattern: Designer Perrette Samouiloff is a master at depicting these fish in just a few "stokes"... sorry clever combination of cross stitch, back stitch and three quarter stitches that add light and life to the pattern, as if the fish had just come out of the water.

If you've never tried stitching a design by Perrette Samouiloff, why not try this one and have fun following her carefully charted patterns.

Gone fishing (large pattern), by Perrette Samouiloff

Gone fishing (small pattern), by Perrette Samouiloff

>> see all seaside patterns by Perrette Samouiloff 

Now why not stitch this pattern on printed Aida, it will given the background some interest. have a lokk at this example where elements of the pattern are combined in a row and stitched on Blue gingham printed Aida from the DMC Impressions range. Now it's your turn: Gone stitching... having fun!

sample stitched on printed Aida

Perrette Samouiloff's little musicians

Designer Perrette Samouiloff has a special talent for observing children, capturing their attitudes and transposing it all into cross stitch.

Here she tackles a whole orchestra with no less than thirteen different musical instruments, each of them skillfully rendered in stitches. If you love music of know someones who does, this is one of the best charts ever.

The little orchestra (large pattern), designed by Perrette Samouiloff

The little orchestra (small pattern), designed by Perrette Samouiloff

>> see all cross stitch patterns by Perrette Samouiloff

Baby is one, a cross stitch pattern by Perrette Samouiloff

(large pattern)

Baby is one,