Cross Stitch Pattern List

Anderson-Bosschaert

Sophie Gengembre Anderson

Take the Fair Face of Woman
"Take the Fair Face of Woman, and Gently Suspending, With Butterflies, Flowers, and Jewels Attending, Thus Your Fairy is Made of Most Beautiful Things" - Charles Ede. A fairy in a gossamer gown with iridescent wings and curling blond hair, crowned with butterflies and holding a jeweled pouch.

Giuseppe Arcimboldo

Spring
A Renaissance "man" composed entirely from spring flowers and leaves. Though he appears realistic at a glance, his coat is made of lettuce, violet leaves, and other greens; his ruff is made of white flowers; his cheeks are roses; his lips are cherries, and so on. He is one of four seasons. We also offer Summer, Autumn, and Winter. (1573)

Summer
A Renaissance "man" composed entirely from summer fruits, vegetables, wheat, and leaves. Though he is somewhat realistic at a glance, his coat is made of wheat, his nose is a cucumber, his cheek is a peach, his hat includes melons, eggplant an ear of corn, cherries, raspberries, figs, onions, and their associated leaves, and his teeth are peas in a pod. He is one of four seasons: we also offer Spring, Autumn, and Winter. (1573)

Autumn
A Renaissance "man" composed entirely from autumn fruits, vegetables, grains, and leaves. Though he seems realistic at a glance, his coat is made of barrel staves, his nose is a potato, his chin is a pomegranite, his mustache is a chestnut burr, his hair is bunches of grapes, his hat is a pumpkin, his beard is millet, his ear is a mushroom, and so on. He is one of four seasons: we also offer Spring, Summer, and Winter. (1573)

Winter
A Renaissance "man" composed entirely of winter plants. Though he seems fairly realistic at a glance, his head and neck are a gnarled and broken tree, with broken branches forming his ear and nose. The old man's coat is made from woven straw, a pair of lemons with their leaves make his cravat, his lips are bracket fungus, and the bare branches of the tree and ivy represent his balding head. He is one of four seasons: we also offer Spring, Summer, and Autumn. (1573)

Margaret Armstrong

Echinocereus polyacanthus
A botanical print of a barrel "hedgehog" cactus with red flowers from a guide to wildflowers. The background is not stitched, and the pattern is designed for white fabric. (1915)

John James Audubon

Columbian Hummingbird
A Columbian hummingbird (now known as Anna's hummingbirds) with a pink hibiscus flower and a few leaves, buds, and part of a stem. This is a detail from the full painting, which we also offer. The background is not stitched, and the pattern is designed for white fabric. (c. 1830)

Brown Pelican
A brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) in breeding plumage perching on a lichen-encrusted red mangrove branch. The state bird of Louisiana, the brown pelican can be found throughout southern and western coastal areas. The background is not stitched, and the pattern is designed for white fabric. (about 1830)

James Bard

Glen Cove
The majestic Glen Cove, a paddle-wheeler, steams along a lake with low hills in the background, with its flags flying and smokestacks trailing black smoke. The rigging and galleries are all shown in detail. (1855)

Frederic Bazille

The Pink Dress
A woman in a pink-and-white striped dress with a black cap and black apron sitting on a shady lichen-encrusted stone wall overlooking a village where the stone buildings glow in the sun. Also known as "View of Castelnau-le-Lez, Herault". (Impressionist, 1864)

William Holbrook Beard

Dancing Bears
A fanciful pair of bears dancing in a forest glade while two other bears look on. Beard was a very popular animal painter, especially favoring bears. He sometimes depicted animals realistically, but often his works were satires on human behavior. (c. 1885)

Thomas Hart Benton

Cradling Wheat
Three men and a boy harvesting wheat by hand on a sunny summer day on a hillside. The wheatfield is bordered by a few stray wildflowers and bands of trees. They are cradles and scythes to gather and cut the wheat, which is then tied into shocks and stacked. This method of harvesting wheat had been almost completely replaced by machinery by the time the picture was painted (1938).

Eugene Bidau

A Peacock and Doves in a Garden
A peacock standing in a wisteria-draped classical garden alcove. Behind him, white doves bathe and quarrel in a shallow pool of water. Yellow irises are growing at the edge of the pool, and palm trees are dimly seen beyond the alcove. (French, 1888)

Albert Bierstadt

Sunrise, Yosemite Valley
The rising sun pours golden light through a gap in the mountains to illuminate the Merced river flowing through a meadow in the Yosemite valley. The rugged granite cliffs rise sharply not far from the bank of the calm river which reflects the trees and mountains. A grizzly bear in the foreground provides scale amid all this grandeur. (Hudson River School, 1870)

Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California
The sun breaks through swirling misty clouds (perhaps the result of a sudden shower of rain) through a gap in the mountains. A lake, partially ringed by cliffs, and fed by waterfalls tumbling down the rocks, calmly reflects rocks, trees, and waterfalls. The side away from the gap is still darkly shaded by the clouds. A group of deer at the lake's edge seem to be studying the glorious view. (Hudson River School, 1868)

The Great Trees, Mariposa Grove, California
Sunlight filtering through a grove of giant sequoias. The massive tree in the center stretches its broken and blasted top into the sun, while its base is shrouded in shadow. The trees dwarf a man and his pack horse into insignificance. Ranks of smaller trees march into a seemingly endless distance. Bierstadt based this painting on a photograph by C. E. Watkins, "The Grizzly Giant". (Hudson River School, 1876)

Cathedral Rock, Yosemite Valley, California
Jagged peaks covered with snow on a gray winter day, though a shaft of sunlight picks out the top of the peaks. In the meadow at the base of the cliffs is a small lake, perhaps a beaver pond, which interrupts the flow of the creek. A few naked trees follow the creek, while behind them, firs climb the mountains. A few shrubs in the foreground still retain their dead leaves, and cattle grazing off to the side give a sense of the scale of the majestic peaks. (Hudson River School, 1872)

Falls of Niagara from Below
A view of Niagara Falls from the base of the falls on a sunny day. Water pours over the falls in foamy white cascades, parted by a spit of land to which indistinct shrubs cling. A rubble of boulders below the falls breaks the surging water into small wavelets. Much of the water is driven upwards again as spray, and blowing to the left obscures part of the falls. (Hudson River School, about 1869)

George Bingham

Fur Traders Descending the Mississippi
Two voyageurs, a man and a boy, floating a canoe carrying furs and a pet fox or cat along a quiet stretch of the Mississippi River. French traders traveled widely in the American west in the early 19th century, trading for fur pelts with the Indians or trapping on their own account, enjoying their freedom, and only returning to St. Louis to sell their goods when they had a full load of skins. (Hudson River School, 1845)

Edmund Blair-Leighton

The Accolade
A medieval queen in a white gown embroidered with gold stands at the foot of her throne to knight a victorious warrior. He wears a red tunic bearing insignia of a black eagle and crescent over chain mail, and kneels on a leather cushion with his helmet set to the side. The thick walls of the fortress are disguised with purple hangings. At the door a small crowd observes the ceremony, including an old man holding the knight's standard, a page boy with his shield, and a monk. (Pre-Raphaelite, 1901)

Stitching the Standard
A maiden wearing a pale yellow kirtle over a long-sleeved white shift is seated on a castle's battlements to catch the last light of day for her sewing, a flag with a black emblem on an orange ground. A band about her forehead keeps her long black hair in order. Behind her a tower can be seen, and below is a road and some trees dimly seen in the twilight. (Pre-Raphaelite, 1911)

God Speed
A fair maiden with flowing golden hair wearing a brocade gown with golden designs leans over a rose-covered stone balustrade to tie a token of her favor to a knight's sleeve. He is riding a white horse, wearing chain mail, a cloak, and helmet with the visor up, and carrying a long lance, and is about to ride through the portcullis of the castle, through which other men-at-arms riding out to battle can be seen. (Pre-Raphaelite, 1900)

A Call to Arms
A Tudor-era nobleman and his bride are greeted as they leave the church by an excited knight in full armor bringing a summons to war. The groom wears a brocade doublet trimmed with fur, hose, a fur cap, and carries a dagger. The bride's gown is white satin with gold embroidery and trimmed with white fur. Across the street, people are leaning from the windows of the houses for a glimpse of the wedding party, to hear and pass the news, and watch the crowds of soldiers and villagers in the street. (Pre-Raphaelite, 1888)

Rosa Bonheur

The Horse Fair
Horses being driven or ridden in a circle by wranglers at a country horse fair to show them off to prospective buyers. The horses range from sturdy draft horses with docked tails to shaggy, half-wild horses and half-grown colts, and seem excited and barely under control. The little crowd of observers stands well back - some on a little knoll for a better view. The artist attended a horse fair disguised as a man in order to make her sketches for this painting because women were decidely not welcome at these events. (1855)

Ambrosius Bosschaert

Bouquet of Flowers in a Vase
A spectacular arrangement of flowers in a beaded glass vase standing in a small corner alcove. One yellow rose lies beside the vase, and perched on it is a red, black, and white butterfly. Also beside the vase is a housefly and two black-and-white seashells. The flowers in the vase include tulips in yellow, variegated red and white and red and yellow, blue iris, yellow-and-orange marigolds, columbine in blue and white, frittillaries, forget-me-nots, lilies of the valley, pink and white roses, narcissus, anemones, hyacinths, and others. Another butterfly and caterpiller are tucked into the bouquet. (1618)

Vase with Flowers
A bouquet of roses, tulips, irises, marigolds, and columbines in a window

Flowers in a Glass Vase
An arrangement of tulips, roses, jonquils, hyacinths, fritillaries, chrysanthemums, roses, carnations, narcissus, and columbines in a molded dark glass vase. A small moth and caterpillar (we have removed the housefly that was in the original) are reminders that life and beauty are transitory. (1614)