Cross Stitch Christmas: 20 Beautiful Designs for the Festive Season

by Helene Le Berre

20 beautiful and delicate cross stitch designs to embroider for Christmas.

These are beautifully delicate Christmas cross stitch designs to delight the heart and soul! If you love cross stitch, you need this book. Extremely pretty without being cloying, these designs from accomplished embroiderer Helen Le Berre are light and airy, using backstitch to outline and emphasize with great skill.

Split into chapters on Advent Foliage, Christmas Animals, Festive Foliage and Amazing Alphabets, there is a lovely range of designs to fit every Christmas situation. You can make beautiful cutlery pockets with fox, bunny or baby deer motifs, a reindeer photo album cover, a pine cone confectionery sachet, personalized gift labels and many more elegant embroidered Christmas items. The charts are beautifully presented, along with a comprehensive techniques section at the back of the book.

Suitable for beginners to more advanced stitchers, these designs are achievable and utterly gorgeous.

Genres: Christmas, Crafts, Nonfiction

96 pages, Paperback

First published August 24, 2018

Reviews

[Liesl]

Not your grandmother's book of cross-stitch. I picked this book up because of the cover, and I don't cross-stitch. As I skimmed the pages, I noticed it was more than just a book of beautiful winter patterns. Each page features a glossy picture of a stitched scene, along with something to do that day, such as make a treat, send out Christmas cards, sing a carol, etc. At the back are the patterns along with thread colors, and stitching guides in case the reader is not familiar with a particular stitch. With spending so much time at home lately, this book is a good way to get yourself ready for the season, and if you stitch, a great resource to make some lovely gifts for yourself, a friend or loved one.

[Samantha Fraenkel]

This is a lovely book full of wonderful holiday patterns as well as lots of festive ideas. As a cross stitcher, this would be a welcome addition to my pattern collection.

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[April Gray]

Such lovely designs! All the designs are so sweet and pretty, and the photography is really nice. There are five projects with instructions, the requisite stitch and material guides, and patterns in the back. I especially liked the alphabets!

[Christine Heron]

Gorgeous illustration but these projects are for the advanced stitcher or one who is highly motivated to seek out the supplies.

[Bookerkc]

Very pretty and delicate designs. I liked several patterns but the author worked them in 28-count evenweave and I have to use 14 aida. I’m not sure if they would work in a larger format.

[Beth]

More like Back Stitch Christmas.

[Sarah Lee]

Too simple for me, maybe good for a beginner? The designs had very little detail and were very light in color.

[Kaitlyn]

For only having 20 designs, I thought they would be better than this...

[Nicole]

More about Christmas and the traditions surrounding the holiday than about cross-stitch and patterns.

[Cheryl Chalfant]

Charming cross stitch patterns and Christmas hints, thoughts and traditions.