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3 New vintage greeting cards by Monique Bonnin
Cross stitch designer Monique Bonnin excels at creating retro-style postcards and greeting cards, each time expressing her creativity in a completely unique and unexpected way. Here are three freshly released Greeting cards.
See more Vintage-style Greeting cards by Monique Bonnin
>> see all Greeting and Postcards by Monique Bonnin
Hear the buzz!
Pay tribute to the honey bee queen with this cute little pattern by Barbara Ana that will fit perfectly in a 4 inch hoop.
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Queen Bee | | Counted cross stitch pattern by Barbara Ana Designs |
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Creative Poppy Designers in the news
Searching for a cross stitch pattern you've seen featured in a needlework magazine?
Click on the picture to access to the corresponding design.
Marie-Anne Rhétoret-Mélin - Christmas Ornaments
As featured in The World of Cross stitching magazine issue 338 on sale September 2023
>> see all patterns featured in cross stitch and needlework magazines
More Christmas Ornaments by Marie-Anne Réthoret-Mélin
With these nine extra hanging ornaments you can now fill an entire Christmas tree with your own hand-stitched decorations, in varied shapes but matching colors!
We love the extra cute cross stitch designs, their unique shapes and crystal clear finishing tutorials. Great cross stitch ideas brought to you by the ever creative Marie-Anne Rethoret-Melin.
More Christmas ornaments
>> see all Christmas ornaments patterns
New Barbara Ana Stitch-along
This new mystery cross stitch chart is lush with gold and precious stones, and loaded with history.
Get a head start and order your supplies so you are ready to stitch when the first part of the pattern becomes available on Sept 15th. The SAL comes in 3 parts released every two weeks.
Spirit of the forest
Why do mushroom pop out mysteriously overnight? No doubt the work of the Spirit of the Forest, seen here appearing through the branches of a sturdy tree. A sense of melancholy emanates from this design shrouded in autumnal light. Vintage Barbara Ana, full of her favorite leitmotivs.
More Autumn patterns by Barbara Ana
>> see all Autumn patterns by Barbara Ana Designs
A fun playground for the Hedgehogs
Golden foliage sticking onto their prickles, the hedgehog family is busy foraging for food, zig-zagging between the mushroom which have popped up overnight. Easy stitching, fun detail and delightful colors make this a perfect project for all! A cross stitch pattern by Kateryna, Stitchy Princess.
More patterns with Mushroom
>> see all patterns with Mushroom (all designers)
Fresh and Seasonal
Notice the lady with the funny hat? I never miss her booth. What an amazing variety!
A quick and easy cross stitch pattern by Samantha Purdy Needlecrafts.
More Autumn patterns by Samantha Purdy
>> see all Fall patterns by Samanthapurdyneedlecraft
Oh Siblings...
You know the feeling don't you, when you're the older one, and all your siblings are either lazing about or getting up to some mischief? Designer Kateryna loves cats and it shows in the way she depicts each of these kittens individual character.
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Miss Cat | | Counted cross stitch pattern by Kateryna - Stitchy Princess |
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More elder sisters
A walking pumpkin, a green-faced witch and a white bear
Will you dare open the door? We have little visitors it seems....
A cute cross stitch pattern for Halloween, design by Samantha Purdy Needlecrafts
Witches come in every style...
Plan ahead for your Halloween stitching.
>> see all Halloween patterns (all designers)
>> see all the News for Halloween, as published in Creative Poppy's newsletter
A cheerful Christmas
Vibrant reds and playful elves, designer Perrette Samouiloff excels at creating the most cheerful Christmas designs. Simply frame the cross stitch piece in a hoop and surround with a garland of natural green leaves and you will have the most beautiful Christmas wreath.
>> see all Christmas patterns by Perrette Samouiloff
More Christmas Wreaths
>> see all Christmas Wreath patterns
Playful ornaments for your Christmas tree
Easily create these fun characters (Santa, Angel and Elf) with exquisitely detailed heads, humbug shaped bodies and playfully hanging arms and legs. The cross stitch charts come with an awesome tutorial, carefully thought through by designer Marie-Anne Réthoret-Mélin.
>> see more patterns by Marie-Anne Réthoret-Mélin
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
Cute and reusable Christmas gift bags
Tired of picking up all the discarded wrapping paper on Christmas morning? For a waste-free Christmas, it's time to move on. Brought to you by Perrette Samouiloff, here are six beautiful cross stitch gift bags that you can use for wrapping small gifts. Pick a shape (flat or tube shaped), personally stitch and create your very own packs. So precious, the recipient is sure to re-use them again and again! When we give our loved ones carefully chosen gifts, don't we want the best packing too?
>> see all Christmas patterns by Perrette Samouiloff
More Fun Hand-made Projects and Ideas for Christmas
Our designers have come up with a number of creative ideas and projects to cross stitch for Christmas, including Advent calendars and decorative boxes, but many other unique ideas such as a hot waterbottle cover or a Christmas tree skirt! Here's a small selection. Click on the link further down to view them all.
>> see all Hand-made projects to cross stitch for Christmas (all designers)
>> see all Christmas patterns
A sampler with Mediterranean flavour
This reproduction sampler, dated August 1905, and signed Marie Moracchini, is part of the personal collection of Meriem Chauvet of Couleur Tourterelle. It features a spirited goat, that looks like it wants to chew at anything it can reach. Marie lived in Piediquercio, a hamlet in the Mediterranean island of Corsica, famous for its « maquis » scrubland, where goats roam freely feeding on wildflowers, aromatic plants and prickly bushes growing among the stones. Marie Moracchini’s little red sampler immediately brings Corsica to our mind.
>> see more Reproduction samplers by Couleur Tourterelle
Creative Poppy Designers in the news
Searching for a cross stitch pattern you've seen featured in a needlework magazine?
Click on the picture to access to the corresponding design.
Lesley Teare Designs - Wildflowers
As featured in The World of Cross stitching magazine issue 336 on sale July 2023
 | | Wildflowers | | Counted cross stitch pattern by Lesley Teare Designs |
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Tiny Modernist - Parrot Biscornu
As featured in The World of Cross stitching magazine issue 335 on sale June 2023
>> see all patterns featured in cross stitch and needlework magazines
6 new patterns for Woodland Animals' lovers
Always full of creative ideas, here is a fun and decorative project by Italian designer Alessandra Adelaide.
Mixing the outline of a woodland animal, and delicately cut-out forest branches, she creates elegant portraits of each animal and their surrounding forest. In effect, this technique is known as the Assisi stitch.
The designs are rimmed with gold and the inside can be filled either with a solid color or with the tartan motif in the additional chart provided.
>> see all animal patterns by Alessandra Adelaide Needleworks
Did you know Creative Poppy also offers chart packs?
Creative Poppy patterns are available as downloadable pattern files. However, if you would like to receive professionally printed charts, we can also deliver your charts directly to your mail box.
This is ideal if you don't want to bother with downloading and printing your files, or if you can't obtain best quality print-outs at home. Also it's nice to have a beautiful chart you can archive.
What you get:
- Professionally printed color charts on beautiful extra smooth paper. Each chart is packaged individually in a sleeve.
- Chart packs are shipped in a strong flat box so they reach you in perfect state.
>> find out about our Shipping by Mail service
By the way, you still get your downloadable chart. So you can source your supplies while you wait for the postman, you can print out working copies that can be used for highlighting while stitching.
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