CHART PACK: 8 color pages
Victoria & Albert Christmas
CROSS STITCH PATTERN DESIGNED BY RIVERDRIFT HOUSE
In the designer's own words:
This little Christmas Sampler features Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, to celebrate the famous glittering candle-lit Christmas Tree first brought in to Buckingham Palace in honour of Prince Albert’s German heritage.
Here began many of the Christmas traditions we still hold dear today.
I included nine stockings for each of the Royal Princes and Princesses.”
Queen Victoria and her consort Albert had four boys and five girls born between 1840 and 1857. As a young couple, they enjoyed preparing Christmas, decorating the tree themselves with candles and gingerbread men before the children were brought in on Christmas eve and they would receive their gifts
In 1850, Queen Victoria wrote in her diary:
'My beloved Albert first took me to my tree and table, covered by such numberless gifts, really too much, too magnificent,’
‘The seven children were then taken to the tree, jumping and shouting with joy over their toys and other presents: the boys could think of nothing but the sword we had given them and Bertie some of the armour, which however he complained pinched him.’
Cross stitch pattern designed by Riverdrift House.
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Chart info & Needlework supplies for the pattern:
Victoria & Albert Christmas
Chart size in stitches: 167 x 125 (wide x high)
Stitches: Cross stitch
Chart: Color
Threads: DMC
Number of colors: 12
Themes: Christmas at Buckingham palace, Christmas Tree, Victorian times, royal family traditions
