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Winter Flowers
Add some color into your house with a pretty little cross stitch wreath and a surprise visitor. By Lesley Teare.
Greeting cards embellished with beads and sequins
Let it snow! these small motifs by Faby Reilly are worked in cross stitch on a Zweigart natural linen canvas with small printed dots looking like soft white snowflakes. The cross stitch base is further embellished with gold threads, pearl sequins, red seed beads. Irresistible isn't it?
>> see more Christmas patterns by Faby Reilly Designs
>> see all Greeting card patterns (all designers)
Christmas at the Red House
Here is Cheryl's vision of Christmas. Cheryl is the designer of Tiny Modernist. The cross stitch piece features a thousand charming details, such as the Christmas wreath on the door, the streetlamps with their golden glow, the little bird perched on the snow-covered roof, smoke swirling from the chimney and of course, lots of little characters and animals come to help Santa.
>> see all cross stitch charts with Santa (all designers)
GERA! Christmas Cross Stitch shop
Cheerful and creative Christmas cross stitch projects, brought to you by GERA! Kyoko Maruoka:
A pretty Christmas box: Ideal for Xmas biscuits, or maybe to store all your ribbons, bits and things at the ready for Christmas packing.
Ornaments for the Christmas Tree, with a surprise inside:
More Christmas patterns by GERA!
>> see more Christmas patterns by GERA! Kyoko Maruoka
A new Tempting Tangles Ornament
Gifts are piled under the tree, neatly packed with colorful bows. But, hey, surprise, who is the red bicycle for?
More Christmas Ornaments from Tempting Tangles
>> see all Seasonal and Christmas patterns by Tempting Tangles
White, with a tiny touch of red
An elegant Christmas cross stitch design by Lesley Teare, in a beautiful harmony of natural colors - white on linen, with just that tiny touch of red. Can you spot it?
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Snow Deer | | Counted cross stitch pattern by Lesley Teare |
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>> see all Christmas patterns by Lesley Teare
More White Christmas designs
>> see more white monochrome patterns (all designers)
Christmas Lights
Candles, lanterns, street lights, windows with warm glowing lights. Check out our new section celebrating Christmas lights.
>> see all patterns with Christmas Lights
Creative Poppy Designers in the news
Searching for a cross stitch pattern you've seen featured in a needlework magazine?
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Tam's Creations - Wacky Boo Monster
As featured in Cross Stitch Crazy magazine issue 250 on sale December 2018 / January 2019
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Blue scarves Canadian designer Samantha Purdy continues to enchant us with her stories in cross-stitch, telling the simple pleasures of life: such as wrapping up on a chilly morning in a cosy woollen scarf and going out to sip coffee and enjoy the pale winter sun. >> see all cross stitch patterns by Samantha Purdy Needlecrafts |  |
Creative Poppy Designers in the news
Searching for a cross stitch pattern you've seen featured in a needlework magazine?
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Barbara Ana Designs - Winter Biscornu
As featured in Cross Stitch Crazy magazine issue 249 on sale November/December 2018
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A Gift for a stitcher friend:
Creative Poppy Gift vouchers
Have you seen a pattern you think a friend might want to stitch?
Why not buy them a Gift Voucher so they can purchase the chart.
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Slowly, oh so slowly, Christmas is coming
Trust Barbara Ana to come up with the most unexpected and whimsical ideas. Who hasn't waited excitedly for Christmas to arrive? Barbara's vision is that of Santa riding ... a snail. A whole town, roofs covered with snow, is enjoying the ride, as well as a couple of Santa's little helpers, sitting under a tree.
More Christmas patterns by Barbara Ana
>> see all Christmas patterns by Barbara Ana Designs
>> see all the latest news for Barbara Ana Designs
Perrette Samouiloff's signature style Christmas fairies
Six graceful little fairies have arrived, just in time to cross stitch for Christmas. They will make wonderful little cards, gift tags, ... or you might want to stitch them all together.
>> see more Christmas patterns by Perrette Samouiloff
Joyous Christmas Ornament
Delicate beads embellish this elegant ornament, letters standing out on a stunning orange background mimicking stained glass. A design by Kathy Bungard of Gracewood Stitches.
>> see more patterns by Gracewood Stitches
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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
Christmas Snow Globes: whole collection now available
Two more charming snowglobes to cross stitch. These are in a jar the other way round.
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Car Snow Globe | | Counted cross stitch pattern by Shannon Christine Designs |
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You can now collect them all and stitch them as if they were on a shelf. So cute!
Embedded Jewels
Love Beads? Love cross stitch? Here's an opportunity to combine both in an extraordinary piece of work where sew-on emerald, ruby and topaz-like stones are combined into the stitching. Some are actually embedded, forming the main motif of the baubles, others are actually pendants. Color shading and the dimensional effect of the beads are a pure wonder. A Shannon Christine Design.
>> see all the latest news for Shannon Christine Designs
Woodlands Christmas
Celebrating Christmas in the quiet of the woods....
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Woodlands Deer | | Counted cross stitch pattern by Shannon Christine Designs |
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Woodland Fox | | Counted cross stitch pattern by Shannon Christine Designs |
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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.
>> see all Christmas patterns by Shannon Christine Designs
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).
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Small Christmas motifs (for cards, gift-tags, etc..)
Christmas in Silver and Blue
Light sparkles in Faby Reilly's works with metallic threads, sequins and beads capturing light and adding extra dimension. Here are two new releases, a Christmas tree busrting with fine detail and a star ornament with intricately silver snowflakes.
More star ornaments by Faby Reilly
>> see more Christmas patterns by Faby Reilly Designs
>> 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.
>> see more patterns by Tiny Modernist
>> see all the latest news for Tiny Modernist
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.
Nature's Christmas
More delightful Lesley Teare patterns have been added lately to our website, including these 3 works inspired by Mother Nature.
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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Holly Girl | | Counted cross stitch pattern by Lesley Teare Designs |
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Christmas patterns by Lesley Teare
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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The Only Gift | | Counted cross stitch pattern by Tempting Tangles Designs |
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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.
>> see more patterns by Tempting Tangles Designs
>> 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.
>> see more Christmas Greetings banners (all designers)
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!
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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Deer Joy | | Counted cross stitch pattern by Barbara Ana Designs |
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>> see all Christmas patterns by Barbara Ana Designs
More Reindeer in Cross stitch
>> 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!
>> 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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Christmas Joy | | Counted cross stitch pattern by Shannon Christine Designs |
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>> see more Christmas patterns by Shannon Christine Designs
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.
More nativity designs
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Riverdrift House - Christmas Nativity Sampler
As featured in Cross Stitch Gold magazine issue 150 on sale September/October 2018
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