Cross Stitch Pattern List

Anderson-Bierstadt

Sophie Gengembre Anderson

Take the Fair Face of Woman
A fairy in a gossamer gown with iridescent wings and curling blond hair, crowned with butterflies and holding a jeweled pouch.

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.

See AND001 for a smaller version (fewer stitches, slightly less detail) of this pattern. (Pre-Raphaelite, 1869)

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)

Black-Crowned Night Heron
A pair of black-crowned night herons at the water's edge in a grassy marsh. The beplumed male is about to snap up a small frog, while the female stands on one leg in a likely nesting spot. This piece is solidly stitched. (1835)

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)

Aubrey Beardsley

Smithers' Catalogue of Rare Books
A young woman in a ruffled gown and low-cut jacket and a flowered hat, seated on an elegant striped couch reading a small book. A cockatoo on an ornate perch near an ornate column watches her. The background and white sections (about two-thirds the total area) are not stitched; use white fabric. (Art Nouveau, 1896)

Dragon
A fanciful pen-and-ink drawing of a dragon with fringed wings and horns, curly tendrils, and scaly ears and feet. The background and white sections (about half the total area) are not stitched; use white fabric. (Art Nouveau, about 1895)

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 using 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).

The Sheepherder
A horseman drives a flock of sheep down from their summer pasture in the high mountain meadows. There is already some snow among the highest peaks, and the aspens are showing their bright fall colors among the somber pines. (American Regionalism, 1960)

Portrait of a Musician
A black jazz bassist in a Kansas City nightclub. He is nattily dressed in a blue blazer, white trousers, and a fancy yellow and black necktie, and gazes down at the gleaming string bass in tranquil concentration. (American Regionalism, 1949)

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)

Old Faithful
The Old Faithful geyser in Yellowstone National Park erupting and shooting boiling water into the air on a clear-skied day. Part of the water is splashing into a small lake in which the geyser and nearby trees are reflected, while clouds of steam billow all around. (Hudson River School, 1876)

The Domes of the Yosemite
A view of the Yosemite Valley and Domes from Yosemite Falls. The upper falls cascades down from the rocks on the left, feeding the lower falls and the Merced River. Down the valley Half Dome, Washington Column, North Dome, and other prominent peaks and domes recede into the mist. (Hudson River School, 1870)