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Riverdrift House Cross stitch designs by Amanda Stevenson
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Lovebirds
This sampler pattern by Riverdrift House features a peacock and a peahen, with a large countryhouse in the background. It is filled with lots of lovely motifs and a medallion to personalize the work. Will make a charming wedding, anniversary or house-warming gift.
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Happy Easter Tea cosy
Bring sunny spring colors to the breakfast table with this cheerful sampler than can be turned into a tea-cosy project. A cross stitch pattern brought to you by Riverdrift house, which specializes in easy and straightforward cross stitch patterns that are very pleasant and quick to stitch.
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Celebrating the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower’s voyage
This remarkable cross stitch Sampler by Riverdrift House, celebrates the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower voyage, in year 1620, from Plymouth, England and over to the New World. The pattern is full of interesting cross stitch motifs and historical details. Click on the images for more of the story.
Riverdrift House only uses full cross stitches in their samplers, making them a quick and pleasant stitch.
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Welcome Home
Greet family and friends with a warm-hearted Welcome!
This sampler offers a mix of tradition - in the ways mini motifs are crossed stitched side by side - and modernity - see the clever way Amanda Stevenson, Riverdrift House's designer, symbolically represents a house, blending in elements of windows and door with the other cross stitch motifs.
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Winter birds and Norfolk turkeys
If you're looking for an easy-to stitch Christmas sampler, do check out Riverdrift House designs. Worked in cross stitch only, with blocks of solid colors, they are fast to stitch yet so merry and colorful! We love the royal Christmas at Sandringham with the brightly lit castle and black Norfolk turkeys roaming in the park.
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The story of the Christmas Tree
Evergreens have been celebrated around the winter solstice long before the advent of Christianity. By 16th century the tradition of decorating a Tannenbaum with candles for Christmas was already established in Germany.
When young Queen Victoria & her consort Albert, where pictured in their palace around a Christmas tree with their children, the tradition became instantly popular, spreading through the British isles and around the world. This wonderful design by Riverdrift House celebrates the British royals around their first Christmas tree.
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It is a truth universally acknowledged...
Two Riverdrift House samplers devoted to Jane Austen: now available:
The first features the famous opening lines of Pride and Prejudice, in the style of the samplers of the time.
The second is a small miniature version of Riverdrift House's Jane Austen Sampler.
A House full of cats
Amanda Stevenson, Riverdrift House's designer, loves cats. There are six of them in her house. Here's a family portrait in colorful cross stitch.
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Little Sailor
Celebrate the arrival of a new-born baby with this sunny and cheerful birth announcement sampler. The child will have pleasure discovering the tiny nautical motives. A Riverdrift House design.
Garden mosaic
The mansion looks beautiful in the background with large windows opening directly onto the grounds. The highlight though is the garden, with a beautiful terrace paved with colorful tiles, like a carpet. It is surrounded by basins of flowers and topiaries. Everywhere birds, flowers, a little corner of paradise.
Part of Riverdrift House's beautiful collection of cross stitch samplers featuring manor houses and gardens.
The sweet sounds of Music
Brought to you by Riverdrift House, here is an elegant cross stitch sampler that will delight any music lover. As your eyes wander from word to word, no doubt you will start to hear the sweet sound of music.
Quilting Blocks
The eight pointed diamond star is the inspiration for this "Home Sweet Home" design. It encases tiny little houses and flower motifs.
The piece is cross stitched in luminous DMC Variegated Red, which very gradually changes colors (used both in the stars and the border motifs), adding warmth to the design.
Fascinating Inca Empire
The ancient Andean civilization continues to fascinate, leaving us with enigmatic and mysterious designs. This colorful Riverdrift house sampler combines motifs of strange gods dripping gold, stylized animals, geometric patterns drawn from traditional hand-woven textiles. The cross stitch pattern is full of captivating details.
 | Inca sampler | Counted cross stitch pattern by Riverdrift House |
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Home deco: home made cushions - ready to customize
These folk designs by Riverdrift House offer a wealth of possibilities. We see an invitation to play around with your favourite overdyed or variegated threads. Or, to make pairs, a large and a smaller one, using the inner square motif and inverting the colors for the smaller cushion. Part of the fun of cross stitch is taking a design into your own hand and adapting it. Do show us and send photos of your finished projects!
Say Love...
Say Love in the most romantic of languages with this exquisite miniature cross stitch sampler designed by Riverdrift House.
Greeting the Winter season with a new sampler
As luminous as a clear and cold Winter day, where you go out covered from head to toe, enjoying the sight of the frost in the garden and the birds feeding in the bird house.
A dessign by Riverdrift House, part of a series of 4 cross stitch patterns, one for each season
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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.
Warm and Cosy
These cats certainly know how to keep warm and cosy in their wooly outfits. A new Mini Sampler brought to you by Riverdrift House. Ideal for a quick project or for a beginner cross stitcher.
Mini Sampler series by Riverdrift House
They all come with the same color scheme, easy to mix and match.
Autumn Gold
These colors read like a feast for the senses, enough of a reason to celebrate the Autumn season in stitches.
The mini Autumn sampler is the third in a series of Seasonal samplers designed by Riverdrift House.
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Purple hair color
Purple hair color seems to be popular with the Witches at Riverdrift House . It suits their skin tone (green with red cheeks).
Maritime Sampler
Exceptional!
Stitched in 1866 by a young girl from Wales, this charming sampler not only includes traditional elements (house, animals, trees of life ...), it also features stunning sailing ships including clippers, witnesses of the naval activity of the region. The sampler was spotted and transposed into a cross stitch chart by Amanda from Riverdrift House.
Summer pleasures
Organizing a tea-party in the garden, gathering bunches of fresh flowers and tending to one's plants - summertime is full of pleasures. And so are these delicate summer samplers, with fresh colors and adorable details. Both are Riverdrift House designs.
The summertime miniature is actually the second in a series of 4 year-round patterns; Spring is already available and Autumn and Winter will be reelased in the coming months.

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Bits & Pieces
In the manner of a scrapbook, Amanda, Riverdrift House's designer, collects many tiny emblems of regions dear to her heart and puts them together in beautiful Samplers, with tons of tiny detail to enjoy stitching. Every single item in the chart has an explanation that features in the text that accompanies the chart.
Check out the three latest "Folkies".
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New Season

Here is the first design in a series of four cross stitch patterns, one for each season. A little "Folkie" lady is tending her animals and enjoying the Spring season in her garden. Quick and easy to stitch, it comes in beautiful soft spring colors. A design by Riverdrift House.
Royal pomp
More royal splendor with this cute Windsor castle, in Riverdrift House's royal residences series. We particularly love the royal row-barge built especially for the Queen's jubilee.
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Celebrating a royal wedding and more happy pairs
May 2018 is when Prince Harry and Meghan will exchange vows in St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle. Just in time to stitch this sweet celebratory sampler filled with royal motifs. Join the party!
The Wedding folkies, with a sweet couple standing straight and solemn, is part of Riverdrift House's lovely collection of local folks, dressed in their best.
Filled with birds and sweet words, this sampler can be stitched as a wedding day gift or to mark an anniversary. It is personalized at the base with the initials of the newly wed and date of the wedding.
Samplers forever Living in the English countryside and a great lover of antique needlework samplers, the designer draws much of her inspiration in traditional motifs, yet giving them a modern twist and personal touch. She has designed many a gorgeous sampler for Riverdrift House, such as the exceptional Sampler featured right that was created for the bi-centenary of the death of Jane Austen and hangs today in Chatsworth House, Derbyshire. Pictured right: Jane Austen Sampler (detail) Counted cross stitch pattern by Riverdrift House |  |
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Pure Cross Stitch, pure Joy

Ever since she started Riverdrift House and designing professionally, Amanda Stevenson has consistently only used cross stitches for every one of her patterns. Keep it pure and simple seems to be her leitmotif. No backstitching, no fractional stitches, just pure cross stitches from one end of the design to another. This does not mean the designs are not intricate, quite the contrary. It does however make for easy and pleasant stitching, whether you are a beginner or an expert.
- Beginner cross stitchers will find it easy to complete the smaller patterns, stitching on 14 count Aida (see picture left)
- Experienced stitchers might want to stitch instead on 28 ct linen, over two threads of fabric. The design will be the same size but the feel will be more sophisticated and authentic. See our tips for stitching on linen.
- Expert stitchers can try some miniature stitching, over one thread, say on 25ct linen. The result will be stunning and since all patterns are full cross stitch only, it's no problem stitching over one thread. Why not give it a try?
Welcome to the world of Folkies Folkies is the name given to Riverdrift House's latest series of patterns featuring couples wearing beautifully detailed traditional folk costumes. We love the way they stand tall and proud, looking us straight in the eyes. There are currently 6 designs in the collection. More coming soon! Pictured right: Cornish Folkies (detail) Counted cross stitch pattern by Riverdrift House |  |
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Ocean breeze, maritime motifs In Cornwall, wherever you are, you are never far from the sea. Amanda Stevenson says she likes gazing at the bit of Cornwall which is right outside her windows. Ships, ocean waves, bunting flying in the wind, seagulls, all these maritime motifs are recurrent themes in her work, either as main designs (see below) or tiny nautical motifs that have slipped into a sampler (see right). Pictured right: Jane Austen sampler (detail with 3 mast ship) Counted cross stitch pattern by Riverdrift House |  |
Royals in residence A collection of cross stitch patterns related to the United Kingdom's Royal family, including the official London residence of Buckingham palace and her majesty the Queen's Scottish summer residence of Balmoral. These charts are full of regalia, colorful flags and ensigns and fun detail such as the Queen's royal corgis. Coming very soon: a Royal Wedding! >> see all Riverdrift House Royal patterns |  |
More pretty birds
Birds of a feather flock together. And so do Riverdrift House's cute little patchwork birds, some assembled quilt style (in blue), some more resting in their heart shaped nests (in red).
More Houses & Gardens Houses comes in many shapes and color in Riverdrift House samplers. One of our favorites (below left) is the yellow House sampler with its bold colors and motifs full of interesting symbolism. The samplers show the English countryside in all its glory. There are benches, fountains, topiaries and many visiting animals in the grounds. And above all, flowers! Pictured right: Big House 2 Counted cross stitch pattern by Riverdrift House |  |
And a Heart-felt Welcome Welcome friends and family into your house with these decorative patterns in beautiful color schemes. They have a modern touch which will make them fit easily into a contemporary home. The square designs can be framed of mounted as pillow cushions and set against the back of a chair in the hallway. Pictured right: Home is where the heart is Counted cross stitch pattern by Riverdrift House |  |
More patterns by Riverdrift House

Riverdrift House cross stitch patterns. Now, available as instant downloadable patterns, on Creative Poppy's website.
All patterns come with easy-to-read Color charts as well as an overview page for large charts.

There are more works by Amanda Stevenson on Creative Poppy's website, and many more to be added soon.
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