All the latest news for cross stitching for the holiday season and for Christmas, as published in Creative Poppy's newsletter.
Christmas in the Woods with Kateryna
Winter Woodlands is a sampler packed with wonderful detail to stitch for Christmas. Our favorite is the white bear hibernating under a mantle of snow. A cross stitch pattern by Ukrainian designer Kateryna - Stitchy Princess
Christmas Fairy tales
>> see all Christmas patterns by Kateryna - Stitchy Princess
Vintage greeting cards
Two retro style greeting cards by Monique Bonnin a cross stitch designer who loves to "recreate" postcards and greeting cards with a vintage feel. Inventive and full of fun detail, you'll enjoy completing every stitch of these precious images. Collect them all!
More vintage Greeting Cards by Monique Bonnin
>> see all Vintage Postcards and Greeting cards by Monique Bonnin
Christmas timekeeper
This pattern by Perrette Samouiloff, with a cuckoo clock keeping track of the hours, reminds us that Christmas time is fast approaching and it's time for us stitchers to start working on our projects.
We love the dainty angels, the mischievous boys swinging on the clock's weights and the carol singing children accompanied by a flute and violins. But above all, we love the tiny cuckoo bursting the door open above the clock to strike the hours. Rejoice! the countdown to Christmas has started.
More patterns with Clocks
More Christmas Music
>> see all patterns related to Music
The largest gift
This little boy is overjoyed. Guess whom the largest beribboned gift box was for?
>> see all Christmas patterns by Perrette Samouiloff
More Christmas Gifts
Mitten Ornaments in scandinavian blue
Fun little woolly mittens to hang on the tree. So cute!
The cross stitch chart by Tapestry Barn comes with full instructions for finishing each piece. You can even add some sweets inside.
More Christmas patterns by Tapestry Barn
>> see all Christmas patterns by Tapestry Barn
Bearing the Light
An ever so whimsical encounter, vintage Barbara Ana style.
Picture a stylish deer, clad in a 1970's vintage jacket, face white in the moonlight and wearing the most extraordinary head dress, with luminous lanterns and silver droplets glimmering in a halo of light.
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Deer Dreams | | Counted cross stitch pattern by Barbara Ana Designs |
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More patterns with Christmas Lanterns and Lights
>> see all patterns with Christmas Lights (all designers)
New Greeting Cards by Lesley Teare
The wreaths will fit nicely within a 3 inch hoop. Teddy however is so busy discovering the presents under the Christmas tree that he bursts out of his frame.
>> see all Greeting card and mini motif patterns (all designers)
The Twelve Days of Christmas in cross stitch
Nativity in cross stitch
From Greeting cards to large nativity samplers, the choice is yours. Discover three new nativity designs by Lesley Teare.
More Nativity patterns
>> see all Christmas Nativity patterns (all designers)
Stained Glass windows
These cards have been designed on the manner of stained glass church windows where colored glass panes are assembled with lead, letting through the light from outside.
Similarly the cross stitch version is fully filled with various areas of solid colors and black backstitch lines
>> see all Christmas patterns by Lesley Teare Designs
Dreaming Miss Claus has arrived
First introduced as the Barbara Ana 2021 Christmas SAL, the Dreaming Miss Claus is now available as a regular pattern. Isn't she beautiful in her soft winter colors and golden highlights.
>> see all Christmas patterns by Barbara Ana Designs
On a one-horse open sleigh
Perrette Samouiloff's Snow in town is a gorgeous Christmas chart with rows of snow covered houses, children on skis, sleighs and skates with little dogs chasing after them, and even a horse sleigh. The town is totally transformed by the cover of fresh snow and there is an amazing feeling of warmth and softness.
The pattern was formely available as a mystery chart. Subscriptions are closed but the can purchase the full pattern.
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Snow in Town | | Counted cross stitch pattern by Perrette Samouiloff |
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>> see all Christmas patterns by Perrette Samouiloff
Redwork Christmas
What we love about this design by Lesley Teare is that it mixes different colors of Gold and reds, as well as tiny blackwork motifs so that the design is stunning, both seen for afar or very close.
More Christmas Blackwork by Lesley Teare
>> see all Blackwork patterns by Lesley Teare Designs
Christmas Roses in Bloom
Twelve Days of Christmas
A new version of the 12 days of Christmas is now available from Lesley Teare. Pick your own favorite pattern and designer.
Festive Geese
In many regions of Europe, white geese are a traditional and popular festive motif.
The December part of Faby Reilly's year-round calendar
With a wonderful flower arrangement for each month of the year, here is Faby Reilly December design, a super-cute arrangement of seasonal flowers. It comes with an extra bonus: a template and alphabet that will also let you create your very own greeting cards.
>> see all Christmas patterns by Faby Reilly
>> see all year-round calendar patterns (all designers)
Color me for Christmas!
With Galliana, cross stitch is so much more fun!
The designer does the all the hard work creating a chart full of super-cute motifs, and you have all the fun, picking colors of your choice for each single motif you decide to highlight.
Now how about stitching this Christmas pattern filled with reindeer, shooting stars, a church, candles, a gingerbread man, snowflakes, Christmas trees and angels playing celestial music!
>> see all patterns by Galliana Cross stitch
Robin in the Snow
A scene full of poetry, where icy white flowers and leaves contrast with the warm colors of the snuggly dressed child, oblivious of the little robin perched on a branch above. A cross stitch pattern brought to you by Perrette Samouiloff.
>> see more Christmas patterns by Perrette Samouiloff
More Christmas Wreaths
>> see all patterns with Christmas Wreaths
Festive Season
If you are looking for a Christmas project to cross stitch that will make a powerful visual impact, you might want to consider this floral motif. Designed by Lesley Teare, the pattern has an amazing amount of color and detail, as well as extra glitz with its gold and silver highlights.
>> see all Christmas patterns by Lesley Teare Designs
Poinsettia and Holly - Assisi style
Brought to you by Faby Reilly, a new and unique take on the popular Christmas motifs rendered in the Assisi technique. Indeed they appear in white, where the fabric is left blank, while the background is cross stitched in deep red. Like Assisi designs of yore - dating back to Renaissance Italy - the design includes numerous flourishes in Holbein stitch.
More poinsettia Christmas patterns by Faby Reilly
>> see all Christmas patterns by Faby Reilly Designs
More poinsettia patterns (other designers)
>> see all Christmas patterns (all designers)
Christmas Joy
In this brand new cross stitch pattern, Perrette Samouiloff depicts the joy of children discovering their Christmas gifts. Cheerful, tender, colorful, lively, and decorative as well, this Christmas pattern has it all. Take your time to complete it, one motif at a time, as the holidays approach.
>> see more Christmas patterns by Perrette Samouiloff
More patterns with Christmas Toys by Perrette Samouiloff
>> see all Christmas patterns by Perrette Samouiloff
Jolly Santa's
If you're looking for a cheerful way to stitch away the year, take a peek at these jolly Santas celebrating Christmas on a rooftop. A cross stitch design by
Lesley Teare.
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Santa Delight | | Counted cross stitch pattern by Lesley Teare Designs |
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>> see all Christmas patterns by Lesley Teare Designs
More Santas to cross stitch
>> see all Christmas patterns featuring Santa Claus (all designers)
New Christmas patterns by Galliana cross stitch
Galliana patterns are especially designed so that you can pick your own color. They come with neutral monochrome charts where individual motifs are easy to identify. All charts come with a free Guide to Colors.
Here are two Christmas patterns from the Galliana range showing the original pattern (left) and a stitched model right).
In the House of Christmas color the structure of the house was worked in chocolate brown, in order to highlight selected features such as the red door, golden flames in the fireplace, green Christmas tree or the yellow deer looking out of the attic window.
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Cross stitch pattern by Galliana Chart - left Example of Stitched model - right |
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While the Christmas Sampler was stitched in a single color DMC Variegated red (115)
>> see all cross stitch patterns designed by Galliana
Celebrating Christmas Scandi style
New from Tapestry Barn, 5 quick and easy Christmas decorations that are easy to frame in a small embroidery hoop. Pair them with the Scandinavian Christmas Sampler featured below.
>> see all Christmas patterns by Tapestry Barn
More Christmas Ornaments
We carry a huge selection of cross stitch Christmas ornaments, it runs several pages long. Here's just a tiny selection. Click on the bottom link to review them all.
>> see all Christmas Ornament patterns
A beautifully embellished wreath for Christmas
Love cross stitching? Want to try adding detail and further embellishments? Faby Reilly's designs are the perfect choice for you. Guided by excellent stitch tutorials and user-friendly charts, learn a couple of new stitches and tips for applying beads. This new release (part of a series with one for each season) features a ribbed spider web stitch, in blue on the photograph.
>> see all Christmas patterns by Faby Reilly Designs
Creative Poppy Gift vouchers: great to give ...or to receive
Are any of your loved ones asking you what you would like to receive for Christmas? Why not suggest some Creative Poppy Gift vouchers. They make great gifts for your stitcher friends too.
- starting from $9.99 (about £6.50)
- valid one year
>> find out more about Creative Poppy Gift vouchers
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