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

If you love hand embroidery, you will be delighted by these exquisite Christmas-themed designs created by accomplished embroiderer Hélène Le Berre. There are 20 to choose from, all delicately worked in cross stitch to create magical winter scenes featuring reindeer, birds, trees and festive foliage, as well as a Christmas alphabet.

Each design is accompanied by a full-page chart and thread key, and instructions are provided for creating cutlery pockets, a photo album cover, gift tags and Christmas candy pouches. For those new to cross stitch, there is a helpful guide to the fabrics, threads, tools and stitches you need at the back of the book.