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Holiday Backgrounds — Cross-Stitch Pattern Book

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$16.5 $38 In stock

Category: Scenery & Backgrounds

Need to hang your stockings with care? But where?! Don't worry, we've got you covered with Stitch People's Holiday Backgrounds Book!

Filled with gorgeously detailed scenes of Christmas and winter fun, this mix-and-match pattern book lets you cross-stitch the annual family snowball fight, that cozy Christmas Eve by the fire, or any festive scene you can imagine!

What You'll Get:
  • 44-page spiral-bound book - 8.5" x 11", lays flat for easy use
  • 15 pre-designed backgrounds - Complete Christmas and winter scenes ready to stitch
  • 16 color pages of mix-n-match patterns - Create custom holiday scenes
  • Multiple holiday traditions - Christmas, Kwanzaa, and Hanukkah scenes & accessories
  • Physical book or PDF - Choose what works best for you
  • 👉 Companion Book: This book is intended to be a supplement to our primary book, Do-It-Yourself Stitch People, which contains the foundational instructions, patterns, and resources for creating your own custom cross-stitch family portrait pattern designs.
Scenes & Patterns Included:
  • Nativity scene - Complete with angels and animals
  • Nutcracker backgrounds - Perfect for ballet lovers
  • A Christmas Carol scenes - For Dickens enthusiasts
  • Winter wonderland - Snowball fights, cozy firesides, snowy landscapes
  • Christmas classics - Red trucks, Christmas trees, summering Santa, Land of Sweets
  • Decorative elements - Snowflakes, stars, theatre décor
  • Cultural celebrations - Kwanzaa and Hanukkah options
Perfect For:
  • 🎄 Creating complete Christmas portrait scenes
  • ❄️ Capturing family winter traditions and memories
  • 🎁 Making festive holiday gifts with context and story
  • 🕯️ Celebrating multiple holiday traditions
  • 🎭 Nutcracker and Christmas Carol themed portraits
  • ⛪ Creating religious and cultural holiday scenes
Pairs Perfectly With:

Ready to create festive holiday scenes? Click Add to Cart and bring your Christmas memories to life!

🎨 Floss Color Disclaimer: As discussed in Do-It-Yourself Stitch People, every family portrait is entirely unique and so making floss color suggestions won't apply to every situation. I encourage you to utilize your own creativity and enjoy the process of color matching to photos to make selections appropriate to the families, memories, and scenes you choose to build with these patterns! You can do it!

Print-It-Yourself Design Journal:

If you design by hand, don't forget to utilize our FREE Print-It-Yourself Design Journal, with different sizes of blank grids you can use to create your patterns, some of which are perfectly compatible with our Traceable Acrylic Character Templates.

Customer Reviews (5.0 / 5 · 2 reviews)

Joshua ★★★★★

The snowy village scene with all the tiny lit windows is what sold me — such a cozy detail to stitch up while listening to Christmas music. Already planning which stockings to frame it around.

Adam ★★★★★

The fireplace scene pattern is incredibly detailed—I've already stitched two of the stockings hanging above it. It's so festive that I'm planning the whole winter layout around this book's designs.